Adam C. Fowles

Adam Fowles applies his technical and legal experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications that maximize the value of clients’ inventions in alignment with their business needs. He also focuses his practice on post-grant proceedings (including inter partes reviews, ex parte reexaminations, and district court litigation). He also provides advice on patent strategy based on portfolio analysis (for offensive and defensive purposes); conducts patentability, infringement, freedom-to-operate, and invalidity analyses; and authors opinion letters.

Clients turn to Adam to manage all phases of post-grant proceedings, including pre-filing investigations and invalidity research and strategy, petition preparation, depositions, response/reply briefing, oral argument, and appellate practice. Adam also has experience in district court litigation with discovery practice, (in)validity and (non)infringement analysis and strategy, claim construction, and briefing in district court and ITC proceedings.

Adam’s clients benefit from his experience in a variety of technical fields, including telecommunications for innovations on existing standards/hardware including 3GPP standards such as 4G (including LTE/LTE-A), 5G, and 6G. He also has experience with other standards and standards-related technologies, including CDMA, video codecs and 802.11. Adam’s experience further includes regular work in many other technical fields including data storage systems, datacenter power management, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, hardware and circuit design, web-based systems. lithography, optics, semiconductors, tissue ablation using RF, other biomedical systems and devices, oil and gas drilling/production, and business methods.

Prior to practicing law, Adam worked with a research team in the development of data processing systems for airborne and table-based LIDAR scanners that created colored 3D point clouds to quickly generate 3D color imagery, useful for various computer-based purposes. Adam also has experience in digital signal processing, analog and digital design, systems engineering, and lean processes.