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Andrew B. Schwaab

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Andrew B. Schwaab has more than 25 years of private practice experience, focusing his practice on strategic intellectual property 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, semiconductor, and emerging technologies, regularly advising early-stage companies from start-up through acquisition regarding initial public offering, enforcement, and defense of their intellectual property.

In the more than 20 years that Andrew 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 former president of the Silicon Valley IP Law Association and a former president of the San Francisco IP Law Association. He recently served 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.

Education

J.D., University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, California, 1998
B.S., University of Virginia, 1992, Electrical Engineering (Electro-Physics)

Recognitions

  • Listed, Lawdragon, “500 Leading Litigators in America,” 2022-2026
  • Listed, IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders – The World’s Leading IP Strategists, 2022-2025
  • Listed, IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists, 2021-2025
  • 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

  • Former President, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Former Chair, CNIPA (Chinese Patent & Trademark Office)/U.S. Bar Liaison Council
  • Former 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

Representative Experience

  • Procured patents for Hydrokinetic Energy Corporation covering hydrokinetic turbines that provide efficient renewable energy from ocean, tidal, and river currents using a unique flow acceleration technology that received the “Patents for Humanity Award” by the Undersecretary of Commerce in December 2024
  • Longtime client, Robert E. Cousins, was awarded the “Silicon Valley Inventor of the Year” by the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association in 2021 for patents secured and drafted by Andrew
  • Drafted patents protecting a full range of semiconductor software inventions, from apps to global software platforms, AI, machine learning, and Silicon Valley emerging tech
  • Successfully asserted Hong Kong client’s patents to remove infringing products from all relevant U.S. online retailers
  • Represented semiconductor client in global patent license negotiation

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