Andrew B. Schwaab

Member

aschwaab@clarkhill.com

Scottsdale
+1 480.684.1109

Andrew B. Schwaab has more than 25 years private practice experience, focusing on strategic IP matters, including counseling, global patent prosecution, patent litigation, licensing, monetization, and due diligence, as well as validity, infringement, and freedom-to-operate issues. Andrew handles matters related to a wide range of electrical, computer, software, and emerging technologies, regularly advising early-stage companies from start-up through to acquisition, initial public offering, enforcement, and defense of their intellectual property.

In the more than 20 years that Andrew has practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, he has frequently traveled internationally, representing both domestic and non-U.S. companies. He lectures regularly on U.S. and comparative international patent issues, including presentations at four of the Chinese Patent Office locations, the Korean Patent Attorneys Association, and the Korean Electronics Organization, as well as with numerous other organizations, conferences, and IP law firms throughout the world. While earning his B.S. in electrical engineering and after graduation, Andrew worked with an IP law firm in Washington D.C., becoming registered to practice before the USPTO in 1994.

Andrew is a recent past president of the Silicon Valley IP Law Association and a past president of the San Francisco IP Law Association. He was recently elected to serve a two-year term as the chair of the China National Intellectual Property Administration/U.S. Bar Liaison Council, which informs and serves a variety of U.S. patent and trademark stakeholders regarding Chinese IP issues.

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property & Technology

Education

J.D., University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California, 1998

B.S., University of Virginia, 1992, Electrical Engineering

Recognitions

Listed, Lawdragon, “500 Leading Litigators in America,” 2022-2025
Listed, IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders – The World’s Leading IP Strategists, 2022-2025
Listed, IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists, 2021-2024
Listed, IAM magazine, “IAM Patent 1000,” Prosecution, 2020-2025
Team Member, a U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms,” “Law Firm of the Year” in Information Technology Law, 2024

Memberships

President, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association
Vice-Chair, CNIPA (Chinese Patent & Trademark Office)/U.S. Bar Liaison Council
Past-President, San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

State Bar Licenses

California

Court Admissions

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office