Andrew Oliver

Andrew is a trial lawyer and intellectual property counselor helping clients build and protect their intellectual property portfolios and defend against accusations. He appears in the Federal Circuit and District Courts in several jurisdictions, including CA, DE, NY, TX, and VA and represents clients in the patent and trademark office and in arbitration. Andrew provides counseling including opinions regarding patent validity and infringement, intellectual property due diligence, litigation-avoidance strategies, etc. Andrew has a degree in systems engineering and software engineering experience (designing and coding client/server software and relational databases). He has extensive experience litigating cases in a variety of industries including internet and networking infrastructure, computer systems, operating systems and software, consumer electronics, computer hardware, digital and analog semiconductor circuitry, semiconductor processing, and medical devices. Selected Cases --- Mass v Planar: lead trial counsel in 2 patent trials In re Computer Peripheral Devices: co-lead trial counsel in ITC patent trial Rajwani v. Payments IP et al: domain name purchase dispute Freelancer v Does: computer fraud and abuse act Catalyst v. Remodeling.com: phishing and keyword advertising Boxfox Group v. Boxfox: trademark dispute Apple v. eForCity, Apple v. Sanho: accessories for consumer electronics E-Pass v. palmOne: operating system and consumer electronics Linear Technology v. Micrel: analog circuits case Varian Semiconductor v. Applied Materials: arbitration re semiconductor equipment Textscape v. Adobe: consumer software MediaTek v Sanyo: DSP and consumer electronics patent litigation Honeywell v. Novatek: LCD systems epicRealm v. Oracle: webservers Balthaser v. Network Solutions: website design TecSec v. Oracle: encryption mechanisms Enhanced Security Research v. Juniper: firewalls Texas Instruments v. Linear Technology: semiconductor processing