Overview
Aashish Kapadia represents clients in patent litigation, post-grant trials and patent prosecution. His background in electrical and computer engineering gives him strategic insight into his clients’ vital technologies. He offers multifaceted representation across all phases of complex patent litigation, from pre-suit strategy and early motion practice through claim construction, discovery and summary judgment. He regularly represents clients in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the US Patent and Trademark Office. His practice also encompasses patent counseling and prosecution in a variety of technologies, including computer hardware, software and telecommunications.
Before attending law school, Aashish worked for five years as a product development engineer at a multinational semiconductor company, where he focused on system-level testing and microprocessor product development. His technical experience also includes software development, semiconductor fabrication and electronic instrumentation.
While in law school, Aashish served as chief articles editor for the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal and recent developments editor for the Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law.
Results
- Represented plaintiff in a breach of contract suit relating to intellectual property rights in Western District of Texas
- Represented technology and semiconductor company in patent infringement suit in District of Delaware involving signal termination, memory device initialization, and testing of electronic devices
- Represented semiconductor company in a patent infringement suits in the Western District of Texas involving processor shutdown management, interface signal error detection, memory interface signal integrity, processor clock design, and VLSI design for power management of power supplies
- Represented a semiconductor company before the USPTO in IPRs of patents related to memory interfaces
- Represented a semiconductor memory company before the USPTO in IPRs of patents related to memory technology*
- Represented a semiconductor company in the Western District of Texas involving wireless transceivers and calibration*
- Represented defendant in a breach of contract suit relating to intellectual property rights in Texas district court*
- Represented defendant in a patent infringement suit in the Western District of Texas involving financial transactions*
- Represented ARRIS in two consolidated patent infringement cases in the District of Colorado involving five patents related to video compression (Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. ARRIS Solutions, Inc.) *
- Represented a semiconductor company in multi-patent infringement litigation technology in the District of Delaware and the Northern District of California related to analog/mixed-signal circuitry and power supply*
- Represented Western Digital in a multi-patent 337 investigation before the ITC concerning power consumption and data addressing in flash memory devices (Certain Flash Memory Devices and Components Thereof, ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1034) *
- Represented a telecommunications company before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in several IPRs of patents related to fiber optics*
- Represented a semiconductor company before the USPTO in several IPRs of patents related to switch-mode power supplies*
- Represented a computing technology company before the USPTO in an IPR of a patent related video decoding*
- Represented a storage technology company before the USPTO in an IPR of a patent related to flash memory*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Recognitions
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent, 2023-2025
- Super Lawyers: Rising Star, Intellectual Property Litigation, 2024
Community
- Austin Intellectual Property Law Association, treasurer, 2024; secretary, 2023; technology chair, 2021; member of the amicus committee, 2016 to 2021
- The Honorable Lee Yeakel Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, associate member, 2015 to 2024
- American Intellectual Property Law Association, , co-chair of programming for patent litigation committee, 2023 to 2024; group coordinator for the model patent jury instructions subcommittee, 2021, 2024; member of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board trial committee, 2020 to 2024
Credentials
Education
The University of Texas School of Law, JD, 2015
The University of Texas, BS, Computer Engineering, 2006
Admissions
Texas
Courts/Agencies
US Patent and Trademark Office
US Supreme Court
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
US District Court for the Western District of Texas
US District Court for the District of Colorado
