New York, New York, United States
I am a strategic IP, tech, and commercial litigator and trial lawyer. I focus on patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, and contract disputes involving high tech and software, artificial intelligence, telecom, life sciences, chemistry, the arts, and complex business issues. I am also an outcome-driven space and telecom attorney, advisor, and expert in satellite regulatory policy and licensing, spectrum management and coordination, RF interference, and related strategies and risk management. In these practice areas, I harness my technical chops as a Ph.D. physicist and an electrical engineer.
Trial lawyer specializing in complex patent/IP and commercial litigation, arbitration, and counseling, and satellite policy and regulatory advisor and advocate, aligning legal and regulatory strategies with business objectives. Represent plaintiffs and defendants, and develop legal and business strategies and tactics, related to IP and complex commercial disputes involving patents, trade secrets, copyrights, advertising, trade practices, and contracts (e.g., IP, collaboration, development, equity, M&A, and employment contracts). Counsel satellite operators and investment firms concerning satellite and telecom regulations, licensing, and spectrum use and coordination.
Drove innovation that is changing how people connect worldwide. Developed and executed successful strategies to tackle Starlink’s most complex spectrum regulatory and spectrum sharing challenges related to low latency, high speed broadband and first-to-market Direct-to-Cell services. Specialized in the intersection between regulatory advocacy and technology, leading and overseeing both policy professionals and engineers and advocating for SpaceX's positions. Responsibilities and achievements included: - Led SpaceX in FCC rulemaking proceedings including NGSO spectrum sharing and 12 GHz, developing and advocating for SpaceX's positions that were adopted by the Commission. - Filed and secured satellite system licenses. - Served as global head of spectrum coordination, liaising and negotiating agreements with governments and private operators worldwide concerning spectrum sharing among satellites, earth stations (gateways and user terminals), radio astronomy sites (telescopes), and terrestrial networks.
Trial lawyer specializing in complex patent/IP litigation, arbitration, and counseling. Helped secure one of the National Law Journal's Top 100 Verdicts of 2022. Named 2015 BTI Client Service All-Star. Selected to Super Lawyers' 2012-2016 New York-Metro Rising Stars lists for Intellectual Property Litigation. Applied extensive legal expertise on liability and damages issues and deep knowledge of clients’ technologies, businesses, and IP in high stakes patent, trade secret, trademark, contract, and licensing disputes. Led litigation teams and developed and successfully executed litigation strategies at all stages of district court actions, ITC investigations, and arbitrations (pre-filing, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial). Successfully prosecuted and defended litigations involving dozens of different technology areas within the categories of high tech and software, life sciences, and chemicals. First and second chaired bench and jury trials. Drafted complex settlement, commercial, and collaboration agreements, often in connection with settling technology disputes.
Specialized in complex patent/IP litigation and counseling. Second chaired bench trials.
Co-led widely cited research with SUNY-Stony Brook on coherent control of strong field multiphoton absorption and efficient quantum state targeting.