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Edward C. Kwok, resident in the firm’s Northern California office, specializes in patent prosecution, patent and trade secret litigations, and licensing.
Mr. Kwok has extensive experience in representing clients in intellectual property litigations, obtaining favorable resolutions for his clients in trade secret matters before State courts, and in patent matters before Federal courts and the International Trade Commission. Since 1993, Mr. Kwok has participated in several patent infringement trials before the International Trade Commission, specializing in examining and cross-examining technical expert witnesses.
Mr. Kwok has prosecuted patents for analog and digital electronic circuits, computer architecture, network systems, software, semiconductor equipment, semiconductor materials and processing, mass storage media, optical and laser instrumentation, controllers, telecommunication systems, digital signal processing, image processing, wireless communication systems, global positioning system applications, and Internet applications.
Prior to founding this firm, Mr. Kwok was a partner at Skjerven Morrill MacPherson LLP. Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Kwok spent nine years in the semiconductor industry, holding various engineering and engineering management positions in developing integrated circuit design tools.
Mr. Kwok is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin (Putonghua) Chinese.
Email: ekwok@macpherson-kwok.com
Bar Admissions:
- California (1989)
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (1989)
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1999)
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.(1989)
Professional Affiliations:
- State Bar of California
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Education:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B. (1980), Electrical Engineering
- University of California, Berkeley, M.S. (1981), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D.(1989)
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