Orange County Office
Key Facts - Opened in 2002, the Orange County office primarily focuses on patent litigation matters in California and throughout the United States.
- One of our major advantages is our deep understanding of IP and technology within our clients' industries, including medical devices, biotechnology, electronics, information technology, software, semiconductors, telecommunications, and gaming and entertainment.
- Our Orange County team is devoted to representing companies on the cutting edge of technology, health care, entertainment and media, winning a number of landmark and first-impression cases.
- Nearly all members of our IP team are admitted before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and we have a former USPTO patent examiner in electrical and electronic arts, as well as an in-house patent lawyer for a life science research and clinical diagnostics company.
- Several of our IP lawyers have significant firsthand experience in research and applied technology, including local lawyers who previously served as a network and telecommunication engineer, a semiconductor product engineer, a data storage engineer, a business software engineer and a computer programmer.
- Our Orange County lawyers work with clients to shape an IP strategy and develop a portfolio of IP assets that supports the company’s research, development, licensing and marketing goals.
- The Orange County office also provides a team of lawyers dedicated to the special counsel needs of biomedical and IT start-ups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other participants in the IP-driven emerging companies and life sciences business environment. Our focus on emerging companies means Orrick provides efficient, cost-effective and creative service from lawyers who understand the business impact of their legal solutions.
- We regularly counsel life sciences companies during the inventive and patenting processes to strengthen the validity and scope of their patents, procure domestic and international patent rights, develop IP strategies and manage their IP portfolios.
- The Orange County office also provides clients with a white collar criminal defense and corporate investigations practice, led by a former Assistant United States Attorney who also served as the deputy chief of the Southern Division of the Central District of California. With 10 years of fraud and public corruption prosecutions experience, he received a "Director's Award," one of the highest honors bestowed on federal prosecutors.
- The Orange County office sponsors strategic organizations that build innovation infrastructure in Southern California. For example, OCTANe helps to create, support and fund innovative biomedical and information technology companies in Southern California.
- Our team is multilingual—including Mandarin, Japanese, Punjabi and Spanish, among other languages—and we have numerous active IP matters for clients in Asia and Europe, many of which involve prominent cases before the U.S. International Trade Commission.
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