Edward Kwok is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Silicon Valley office of Haynes and Boone. His practice focuses on patent prosecution, patent and trade secret litigations, and licensing.
Edward has extensive experience in representing clients in intellectual property litigations, obtaining favorable resolutions for his clients in trade secret matters before State courts, and in patent matters before federal courts and the International Trade Commission. Since 1993, he has participated in several patent infringement trials before the International Trade Commission, examining and cross-examining technical expert witnesses.
Edward has prosecuted patents for analog and digital electronic circuits, computer architecture, network systems, software, semiconductor equipment, semiconductor materials and processing, mass storage media, optical and laser instrumentation, controllers, telecommunication systems, digital signal processing, image processing, wireless communication systems, global positioning system applications, and Internet applications.
Before becoming a lawyer, Edward spent nine years in the semiconductor industry, holding various engineering and engineering management positions in developing integrated circuit design tools.
Selected Representative Experience
Micron/Mosel Vitelic
Represented Mosel Vitelic, Inc., a Taiwanese manufacturer of Dynamic Random Access Memories, before the USITC in a patent infringement case brought by Micron Technology.
BYD Company Limited v. Sanyo Energy Corp.
Representation of BYD Company Limited, a Chinese manufacturer of Lithium ion batteries for cellular telephones, in a patent infringement suit brought before a U.S. District Court by Sanyo Energy Corp. Case was settled favorably for client.
In the Matter of Certain HSP Modems, Software and Hardware Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same (337-TA-439, PCTEL, Inc. v. Smart Link Ltd., & ESS Technology, Inc.)
Represented PCTEL in patent infringement case involving HSP (host signal processing) modems.
In re Certain Semiconductor Memory Devices and Products Containing Same, (337-TA-414, Micron Technology, Inc. v. Mosel Vitelic)
Represented Mosel Vitelic in a patent infringement case involving semiconductor dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices.
Hua Loong Microelectronics, Inc. v. SGS Thomsom Limited
Representation of Hua Loong Microelectronics, Inc., a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits before the USITC in a patent infringment case brought by SGS Thomsom Limited.
In the Matter of Certain Semiconductor Memory Devices and Products Containing Same (337-TA-470, Mosel Vitelic Inc. v. Hitachi, Ltd. et al. (Elpida))
Represented Mosel Vitelic in semiconductor device patent infringement.
Patent Prosecution - Telecommunication and Computer Network Technologies
Representation of a Japanese Telecommunications company before the U.S. Patent office in prosecution of a large number of U.S. patent applications on telecommunication and computer network technologies.
Patent Prosecution - LCD Technologies
Representation of a Korean manufacturer, before the U.S. Patent office, in prosecution of a large number of U.S. patent applications on LCD technology.
Публикации
06/28/2010 -
Accelerated Patent Examination Plan Extended
Most patent applicants can now accelerate the examination of a select number of patent applications in exchange for abandoning an equal number of unexamined, pending applications, according to an announcement issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) on June 24, 2010. The PTO’s official notice, titled “Expansion and Extension of the Patent Application Backlog Reduction Stimulus Plan” (the “Plan”), eliminates the requirement whereby only small entity applicants could participate in the Plan.
06/23/2010 -
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Proposes Three-Track Patent Examination Initiative
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) is seeking public comment on a proposed three-track patent examination initiative that would provide applicants with greater control over the speed at which their applications are examined.
05/10/2010 -
Management (and the Federal Circuit) Torched Our Patent: What Should We Have Done Differently?
Just one day after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit indicated that it would consider the current state of the inequitable conduct doctrine
en banc in Therasense
, Inc. v. Becton Dickinson and Co., a split panel of the Federal Circuit issued a decision in the case of
Avid Identification Systems, Inc. v. Crystal Import Corp. affirming a lower court’s finding of inequitable conduct.
05/07/2010 -
The IP Beacon, May 2010
A Haynes and Boone Newsletter highlighting current issues in Intellectual Property Law.
05/04/2010 -
Overview of the Proposed Patent Reform Act of 2010
01/19/2010 -
The IP Beacon, January 2010
01/13/2010 -
Federal Circuit Affirms Longer Patent Term Adjustments for Many Patents