Brian Kwok helps clients build, manage, and successfully monetize patent portfolios. Brian evaluates patent portfolios and negotiates deals ranging from a few hundred thousand to many billions of dollars. He recently represented an international technology company in a multi-billion dollar patent portfolio acquisition involving thousands of patents related to wireless telecommunications, cellular systems, and consumer electronics.
Brian also counsels clients through pre-litigation conflicts to resolve assertions and licensing disputes before patent litigation ensues. An experienced engineer, he provides clients with insightful and pragmatic advice, based on his ability to understand deeply the technical merit of a case and to explain its intersection with legal strategy. For example, Brian counseled a Fortune 50 technology company in a pre-litigation patent assertion relating to 3G/4G smartphone technologies, resulting in the asserting party dropping all its assertions against Brian’s client on favorable terms.
When patent disputes mature into formal litigations, Brian has significant experience with patent matters before the International Trade Commission and numerous federal district courts. Brian represented Samsung in ITC proceedings related to cellular phones, Intel in a declaratory judgment action against Wi-LAN’s WiMAX and Wi-Fi patents, and a major consumer electronics company in various federal court and ITC actions against its competitors relating to smartphone technologies. Brian is well versed in all aspects of litigation, including deposing expert and fact witnesses, case-dispositive motions practice, and Markman proceedings. Brian’s practice also includes representing clients in inter partes review and post-grant review proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board as part of a comprehensive litigation strategy.
Brian’s technical experience includes with a wide range of high-tech subject matter, such as standards-essential wireless telecommunications (e.g., LTE, UMTS, cdma2000, GSM, and Wi-Fi), HEVC (H.265), user experience design, GPS, semi-conductor circuits, mobile payment systems, liquid crystal displays, and other consumer electronics technologies.
Selected Client Representations
- Intel v. Wi-LAN (N.D. Cal.)
- Wi-LAN v. Intel, et al. (E.D. Tex.)
- Samsung ITC Investigation (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-583)
Brian was selected for inclusion in Northern California Super Lawyers – Rising Stars Edition, Thomson Reuters, 2014-2016. He was also named in the 2020 Lawyers of Color Power List which highlights the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates.
Brian is a member of the Board of Directors for Leela International, a non-profit that builds playgrounds and art education programs for children in underdeveloped communities around the world.
郭俊杰帮助客户建立和管理专利组合，并能成功地将其货币化。他对专利组合进行评估，谈判交易额从几十万到数十亿美元。他最近代表一家国际技术公司进行了数十亿美元的专利组合收购，该收购涉及到与无线通信、无线电话系统和消费电子产品有关的数千项专利。
俊杰还通过诉前冲突解决方案来为客户提供咨询，以求在专利诉讼之前使有关断言和许可的纠纷得以解决。作为一名有经验的工程师，俊杰可以基于他对案件之技术方面的深刻理解能力以及对其与法律策略的交叉的解释来为客户提供洞察力和务实的建议。例如，俊杰曾在一起与3G/4G智能技术有关的专利权利主张的诉讼前解决方案中为一家财富50强技术公司提供咨询，最后使断言方以对俊杰客户有利的方式放弃了所有针对该客户的断言.
当专利纠纷转变成正式诉讼时，俊杰在国际贸易委员会和许多联邦地区法院方面拥有丰富的专利事务经验。俊杰曾在与手机有关的ITC诉讼中代表三星公司，在判决Wi-LAN的WiMAX和Wi-Fi专利之确认诉讼中代表英特尔公司，在各联邦法庭上代表一家主要的消费电子公司，以及代表ITC在智能手机技术方面对其竞争对手进行起诉。俊杰深谙诉讼程序的各个方面，包括废除专家和事实证人、案件决定性请求以及马克曼程序。作为综合性诉讼策略的一部分，俊杰的业务专长还包括在美国专利局的专利审理和上诉委员会那里就多方复审和后重审程序为客户进行代理。
俊杰的技术经验涵盖广泛的高科技题材，譬如，标准的必备无线通信（如LTE、UMTS、CDMA2000、GSM和Wi-Fi），用户体验设计，全球定位系统，半导体电路，移动支付系统，液晶显示器，以及其他消费电子技术
主要的客户代理
- 英特尔公司起诉Wi-LAN(N.D. Cal.)
- Wi-LAN起诉英特尔公司及其它，(E.D. Tex.)
- 三星公司/ITC调查(ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-583)
俊杰被选定列入2014-2016年的《北加州超级律师 - 新星版》，汤姆森路透公司。
俊杰是“国际里拉”组织的董事会成员，该非盈利组织在全球各地为不发达社区的儿童修建儿童游乐场和提供艺术教育课程。