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Marc David Peters is a partner at Turner Boyd LLP. He represents clients in technology and intellectual property litigation and counseling, primarily involving semiconductor, electronics, and computer-related technologies. He represents technology companies in patent, trade secret, copyright, antitrust, trademark, and commercial disputes in federal court, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and arbitration. His cases have involved technologies such as gallium-nitride-based LEDs and laser diodes, haptic feedback devices, semiconductor fabrication and devices, microprocessor designs, medical devices, sonar, optoelectronic transceivers, and operating system, virtual machine, and synchronization software.. Before joining Turner Boyd, Marc was a partner at Morrison & Foerster, where he practiced from 2007 to 2020. He has been listed in the Northern California “Super Lawyers” publication every year since 2012 and represented Immersion in Managing IP’s “Milestone Case of the Year” in 2017. Marc currently serves as the President of the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court.. Marc has represented Immersion Corporation in a variety of intellectual property matters, including in arbitration, federal court, and the International Trade Commission. On behalf of Oracle America, he was second chair on the patent phase of the battle against Google over the Android operating system—a case that the court dubbed the “World Series of IP Cases.”. He defended Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (China), a Shanghai-based manufacturer of advanced semiconductor fabrication equipment, against accusations by Applied Materials of trade secret misappropriation. Marc obtained a precedential court opinion regarding the rights of California inventors to their inventions, which ruled that Applied Materials’ standard employment agreements were illegal under California law because they purported to require former employees to assign inventions they made after leaving the company. The case settled on confidential terms shortly before trial.. Marc helped obtain summary judgment on behalf of California’s foster parents, in a pro bono case brought with the Children’s Advocacy Institute. California was adjudged to have violated federal law by failing to calculate and pay for the actual costs of raising foster children. As a direct result of the state’s failure to reimburse foster parents as required by federal law, California’s foster care system is less effective and more expensive than it should be. For their work, the Morrison & Foerster team received the 2010 President’s Pro Bono Service Award from the California State Bar, and the case was selected as one of five Outstanding Pro Bono Projects of 2010 by The Daily Journal. The team successfully defended the judgment in an appeal to the Ninth Circuit.. He led the team representing Nichia Corporation in high-stakes patent litigation against Seoul Semiconductor Co. concerning short-wavelength laser diodes and LEDs. In addition to providing effective case and discovery management, Marc developed the technology tutorial and arguments that led to a successful claim construction outcome for our client. The case settled favorably shortly after the claim construction hearing.. Marc is an author of the Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, published by the Federal Judicial Center and LexisNexis. The guide is a comprehensive overview of best practices and procedures in patent cases, and is provided to all federal district judges.. Marc is admitted to practice in California, and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received his J.D. with distinction from Stanford University in 2000, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. He was a member of the scientific team that discovered the top quark, and is a co-author of more than a hundred papers in refereed journals. While earning his doctorate, he received the UC Berkeley Faculty Associate Award for excellence in teaching, and authored the “Physics 111: Laboratory Electronics” course manual. Marc received his A.B. in physics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1990.. He is a Life Member of the American Physical Society and President of the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court.  While earning his J.D., Marc was President of the Stanford Law & Technology Association and an Associate Editor of the Stanford Law Review.

Brian Kwok helps clients build, manage, and successfully monetize patent portfolios. A trusted advisor to technology companies around the world, Brian evaluates patent portfolios and negotiates deals ranging from a few hundred thousand to many billions of dollars. He recently represented an international technology company in a multi-billion dollar patent portfolio acquisition involving thousands of patents related to wireless telecommunications, cellular systems, and consumer electronics.. Brian also counsels clients through pre-litigation conflicts to resolve assertions and licensing disputes before patent litigation ensues. An experienced engineer, he provides clients with insightful and pragmatic advice, based on his ability to understand deeply the technical merit of a case and to explain its intersection with legal strategy. For example, Brian counseled a Fortune 50 technology company in a pre-litigation patent assertion relating to 3G/4G smartphone technologies, resulting in the asserting party dropping all its assertions against Brian’s client on favorable terms.. When patent disputes mature into formal litigations, Brian has significant expertise in patent matters before the International Trade Commission and numerous federal district courts. Brian represented Samsung in ITC proceedings against Ericsson’s cellular phones, Intel in a declaratory judgment action against Wi-LAN’s WiMAX and Wi-Fi patents, and Apple in various federal court and ITC actions against HTC and Nokia relating to smartphone technologies. Brian is well versed in all aspects of litigation, including deposing expert and fact witnesses, case-dispositive motions practice, and Markman proceedings. Brian’s practice also includes representing clients in contractual disputes involving patents and the enforcement of related indemnification rights.. Brian’s technical experience includes with a wide range of high-tech subject matter, such as standards-essential wireless telecommunications (e.g. LTE, UMTS, cdma2000, GSM, and Wi-Fi), user experience design, GPS, semi-conductor circuits, mobile payment systems, liquid crystal displays, and other consumer electronics technologies.. Brian is licensed to practice in California, Wisconsin, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

For close to two decades, Esha has been practicing intellectual property and technology-related commercial litigation and counseling in the Bay Area. Previously one of the youngest partners at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Esha brings to any team a keen sense of trial strategy and jury presentation. Earlier this year, Esha successfully led a team of nine attorneys to a defense-side verdict in a case brought by a non-practicing entity in East Texas.. Esha has played a key role in numerous other cases, both in District Courts and in the ITC. In those matters, she has successfully obtained verdicts of patent invalidity, obtained jury verdicts in the millions, and recovered millions in settlements. Esha’s successful outcomes have resulted from winning cases at trial, winning cases on summary judgment motions and motions to dismiss, and prevailing on advantageous claim constructions.. Esha has successfully represented companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 to emerging start-ups, as well as highly innovative inventors. Esha’s patent litigation engagements have involved diverse and technologically complex subject matters ranging from computer hardware, wireless standards, optical character recognition, image processing, medical devices, and consumer products. Esha also has significant experience with trade secret disputes in high-tech industries, and has litigated numerous copyright, trademark, Internet, and false advertising matters.. In 2000, at the age of 22, Esha received her law degree from Boalt Hall. She received her B.A. in Economics, with highest departmental distinction, in 1996 from UC-San Diego. At the age of 18, she was the youngest graduate in the history of the university.. Esha is frequently invited to serve as a guest speaker and lecturer at Boalt Hall and Hastings College of the Law. She is involved with the Silicon Valley IP Lawyers Association and the Women’s IP Lawyers Association.

Admitted before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in California, South Dakota, Nevada and Colorado.. Snowboard instructor (AASI Level 2 and SBINZ level 2) at Northstar Ski Resort.