California Intellectual Property Lawyers

Intellectual Property Law

1800 Ave of the Stars suite 900, Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA

Alan J. Heinrich is a partner at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, where his practice centers on intellectual property litigation. His patent work spans biotechnology, medical devices and high technology. He has represented both patent owners seeking damages and companies defending against infringement claims. Computer interfaces are among the technologies involved in his cases. Heinrich represented Immersion Corporation in litigation against Sony Computer Entertainment over PlayStation products. Immersion alleged infringement of two patents concerning computer-controlled vibrotactile technology—the use of touch in interactions with computers. He also represented Avago Technologies in a dispute with PixArt Imaging over optical navigation technology used in computer mice. That case concerned PixArt’s CMOS optical mouse sensors and ended in a settlement under which PixArt agreed to a worldwide license to certain Avago intellectual property. Outside his litigation work, Heinrich teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles as an adjunct faculty member. His course, Patent Intensive, is an advanced patent law seminar. His teaching has also included Patent Law and Federal Courts at Loyola Law School. Within Irell, he previously sat on the Executive Committee and chaired the Hiring Committee. Heinrich was admitted to the California bar on April 18, 2001, and the State Bar lists his license as active. His firm biography also lists admission to the federal district courts for California’s Central and Northern Districts and to the Ninth and Federal Circuit courts of appeals.

Intellectual Property Law

917 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Alexander Schlee is a registered German, European and US patent attorney and holds the German equivalent to a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is the founder of Schlee IP International P.C. in 2007 succeeding a Los Angeles branch office he founded as a former equity partner of Viering, Jentschura & Partners in the year 2000. Among other volunteer activities he served on the State Bar of California International Law Section Executive Committee and is a former president (2011) of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association LAIPLA. Alexander Schlee assists particularly clients having strong international Intellectual Property interests, among these especially clients doing business between the United States and Germany.

Intellectual Property Law

19200 Von Karman Ave, Irvine, CA 92612, USA

Brian P. Kinder is the founder of The Kinder Law Group and has practiced intellectual property law for more than a decade. He serves clients around the world and has been named as a Super Lawyer Rising Star in the area of intellectual property – an honor bestowed on only the top 2.5% of attorneys in California. Mr. Kinder handles all aspects of brand protection, from counseling and clearance searches to registration and litigation. He has not only protected numerous trademarks domestically and online, but has also coordinated global branding initiatives spanning over 120 countries around the world. Mr. Kinder also has extensive experience in successfully litigating cases before various Federal District Courts, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board (T.T.A.B.). He has resolved numerous infringement disputes, false advertising claims, misappropriation of trade secret cases, unfair competition, franchise disputes, and various administrative actions involving Opposition and Cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In addition to trademark matters, he has represented clients in various complex cases involving right of publicity and copyright infringement. He has also successfully resolved several high-profile domain name disputes against some of the most aggressive cybersquatters in the industry. Mr. Kinder also works closely with associated foreign counsel with regard to the international disputes. Mr. Kinder represents clients in a wide variety of product industries, including, apparel, building materials, consumer electronics, food and beverage, health and beauty, horticulture, pharmaceutical, sports nutrition, sporting goods, toys and transportation products. He is also experienced in representing clients across various service industries, including advertising/pr agencies, banking institutions, homeowner’s associations, insurance brokers, financial advisors, magazine publishers, restaurants, and real estate sales and leasing organizations, to name but a few. Mr. Kinder is known for combining sharp legal insight with a business-minded approach to IP protection and enforcement.

Intellectual Property Law

1801 Century Park West, 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Bryan has been a trial lawyer since 1991 and has extensive experience litigating unique and complex entertainment, real estate, employment and commercial disputes. Bryan's wide ranging experience, including a vast knowledge of asset based judgment collection, allows the client the opportunity to not only successfully litigate a case through trial but also be able to collect assets to satisfy the judgment through both domestic and international mechanisms and resources. Bryan's trial experience includes successfully defending numerous large corporations and achieving multimillion dollar verdicts on behalf of real estate development companies. Bryan and his partner, Michael Taitelman (also named a Southern California Super Lawyer and Rising Star) have been friends since their college days at the University of California at Berkeley, and started Freedman + Taitelman, LLP in 1997 to provide the same large firm litigation expertise and aggressiveness along with smaller firm client attention and efficient cost management.

Intellectual Property Law

4000 MacArthur Blvd, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA

BERSTEIN LAW is a law firm located in Orange County specializing in business, intellectual property, and trade secrets litigation with clients throughout California. Since 1999, I have litigated cases before the Superior and Federal District Courts in California as well as proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, I graduated from California State University, Northridge with a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Behavioral Neuroscience. I earned his J.D. from Whittier School of Law in June 1999 and was admitted to the State Bar of California in December of that year.

Intellectual Property Law

44 South Flower Street, Suite 3100, Los Angeles, CA 90071

His main focus is civil, entertainment and intellectual property litigation and transactions. He has spent his career representing industry clients, such as producers, production companies, artists, agencies, and distributors in all aspects of the television, recording, modeling, and motion picture industries. His work also includes film and television financing, television and film distribution, literary options, contract interpretation, copyrights and trademarks, idea submissions, shopping agreements, royalty accounting, TV syndication, music rights and licensing, and rights of publicity. Mr. Sherman has experience in all aspects of intellectual property and entertainment litigation from inception through post-trial briefs. Mr. Sherman is a member of the California, Los Angeles County and Beverly Hills Bar Associations. He can also regularly be heard as a legal contributor to the Jim Daniels Show on NBC Sports Radio and Sunday mornings during Sports on Tap on 95.5 KLOS.

Intellectual Property Law

Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA 93923, USA

Elizabeth E. Powers is a solo intellectual property attorney practicing in Carmel, CA, at Powers Law Firm. With over 25 years of experience with trademarks, patents, and licensing/transactions, she has worked extensively with start-up technology companies in formulating IP strategies, obtaining and licensing IP rights, and conducting due diligence. Ms. Powers is a published author on IP strategy. She taught IP strategy courses at Santa Clara University School of Law, and was a Professor of Practice at the Leavey School of Business, where she taught IP and business law courses to MBA, MA, and undergraduate students. She frequently lectures on IP and U.S. law matters both domestically and internationally. Ms. Powers work experience ranges from small IP firms, to large multi-national law firms, as well as in-house counsel at Bayer Corp. and general counsel at a start-up technology company. Her B.S., JD/MBA, and M.A. are from Santa Clara University, and she has an LL.M.

Intellectual Property Law

1230 Hauser Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019

Entertainment Law

Intellectual Property Law

15303 Ventura Blvd suite 1400, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, USA

An experienced and highly decorated attorney, Glen Kulik has developed an impressive record handling complex litigation matters in state and federal courts throughout California. As a founder and managing partner of Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware LLP, he has a long history of successfully representing clients big and small, corporate and individual, in a wide variety of legal disputes. He is a recognized expert in the fields of entertainment, intellectual property, real estate, commercial, and employment law, and he is also a specialist in representing residential homeowner associations including gated communities, high rise buildings, and other common interest developments.

Intellectual Property Law

401 Florence St, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA

Mr. Russo is a frequent speaker on computer law issues and has given presentations to the American Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the Computer Law Association, and the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court. Mr. Russo serves as an arbitrator, mediator, and early neutral evaluator for the U.S. District Court (N.D. California), the Santa Clara County Superior Court, and the American Arbitration Association, as well as a Judge Pro Tempore of the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Mr. Russo specializes in Internet, computer law, and intellectual property litigation. In addition, Mr. Russo is in charge of the Firm's entrepreneurship practice.

Intellectual Property Law

370 Convention Way, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA

Jim Peacock (San Carlos, CA) has founded and managed five med-tech companies launched in funded operations via more than $200 million of investment capital raised since 1997, and with multiple successful exits and disruptive products brought successfully to market. He is a named inventor on more than 45 issued U.S. Patents, and has co-authored numerous awarded abstracts, podium presentations, and grants in various scientific fields. He is also a frequent speaker, panelist/judge, and guest lecturer about high tech start-ups at graduate law, business, and engineering schools. Mr. Peacock is also a Registered Patent Attorney and member of the California State Bar. He continues to advise other start-ups as Of Counsel consultant to Mahamedi IP Law LLP, and was previously Of Counsel to O’Banion & Ritchey LLP and an Associate Attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP. In October 2015, Mr. Peacock was honored by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group as a “Featured Innovator” at the launch celebration for the Silicon Valley Regional Office of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior R&D Engineer at Guidant Corp, and previously an R&D Engineer at Baxter American Edwards.Jim Peacock (San Carlos, CA) has founded and managed five med-tech companies launched in funded operations via more than $200 million of investment capital raised since 1997, and with multiple successful exits and disruptive products brought successfully to market. He is a named inventor on more than 45 issued U.S. Patents, and has co-authored numerous awarded abstracts, podium presentations, and grants in various scientific fields. He is also a frequent speaker, panelist/judge, and guest lecturer about high tech start-ups at graduate law, business, and engineering schools. Mr. Peacock is also a Registered Patent Attorney and member of the California State Bar. He continues to advise other start-ups as Of Counsel consultant to Mahamedi IP Law LLP, and was previously Of Counsel to O’Banion & Ritchey LLP and an Associate Attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP. In October 2015, Mr. Peacock was honored by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group as a “Featured Innovator” at the launch celebration for the Silicon Valley Regional Office of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior R&D Engineer at Guidant Corp, and previously an R&D Engineer at Baxter American Edwards.

Intellectual Property Law

13421 Danbury Ln, Seal Beach, CA 90740, USA

Patent Attorney John Connors devotes his career to the power of innovation. As a speaker and author of Patent It and Grow Rich, his mission is to ensure that organizations and entrepreneurs retain their rights to inventions… and profit from them!

Intellectual Property Law

1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Kalpana Srinivasan, a trial lawyer in Los Angeles, is a managing partner at Susman Godfrey. Her cases have involved home-valuation software, Wi-Fi patents and the rights to older sound recordings. In the HouseCanary litigation against Amrock, she shared lead responsibility for both trials of the real estate analytics company’s trade secret and fraud claims. Caltech’s patent suit against Samsung put her on the plaintiff’s side as lead counsel; in Finjan’s suit against cybersecurity provider Bitdefender, she worked for the defense. Both patent cases resolved before trial. Music copyright litigation took Srinivasan to the Ninth Circuit in 2021, when she argued an appeal arising from the Sirius XM cases. She had served as co-lead counsel for Flo & Eddie and a class of owners of recordings made before 1972. Her experience with class actions also extends to teaching a course at UCLA Law School. Srinivasan joined Susman Godfrey in 2005 following a clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Raymond C. Fisher. Earlier, she was an Associated Press reporter in Washington, D.C., covering national media and telecommunications policy. The firm elected her managing partner in 2020—the first woman in that role and the first to reach it through the firm’s associate ranks. Outside her litigation work, she sits on the advisory forum of Stanford Law School’s Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. She previously served on the California State Bar’s Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission.

Intellectual Property Law

9595 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA

Area of Practice: Entertainment Law Mr. Browning graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in Connecticut, and Cornell Law School, and is a member of the California and New York Bars. He is an Honorary George F. Baker Scholar at the Harvard Business School and has been a practicing entertainment and transactional lawyer in Beverly Hills, California for more than thirty years, representing clients in literally all aspects of the entertainment industry. Mr. Browning is also a well-recognized Founder and operating principal of multiple consumer product companies. In this capacity, he oversees all aspects of these companies’ worldwide operations, including their conventional retail, home shopping, electronic retailing, e-commerce, and related marketing platforms and channels, and branding strategies. Mr. Browning’s companies have received numerous awards for product innovation, best in class, and best new product. Mr. Browning has been honored as a Southern California SuperLawyer® and a Los Angeles Business Journal Leader In Law®.

Intellectual Property Law

7700 Irvine Center Dr suite 800, Irvine, CA 92618, USA

Kumar Maheshwari, founder of Mahesh Law Group, is a patent lawyer in Irvine, California. His work has included an intellectual property strategy for a publicly traded medical device company: patents, trademarks and trade secrets were all part of that assignment. The firm’s account also describes his assistance with the company’s refinancing of a collateralized debt instrument worth more than $200 million. Google, Medtronic and Roland appear among the companies named in his biography as past clients. That account also describes work with startups and midsize companies, as well as strategy discussions with entrepreneurs. His earlier experience includes nearly a decade of patent law work at Foley & Lardner LLP, according to the firm. At Mahesh Law Group, the service list covers several stages of intellectual property work. The firm offers patent landscape searches and searches for patentable features, along with provisional, non-provisional and design patent applications. Trademark protection and fractional general counsel services are separate offerings. For tax, litigation or taking a business public, the firm says it maintains relationships with larger law firms to bring in additional expertise. Maheshwari’s California license is active under the name Kumar Kinshuk Maheshwari. Admitted on December 5, 2006, he is listed by the State Bar at Mahesh Law Group PC’s office at 7700 Irvine Center Drive, Suite 800, in Irvine.

Intellectual Property Law

1055 E. Colorado Blvd, Suite 500, Pasadena, CA 91106

Louis F. Teran is an attorney in Pasadena, California, and the founding attorney of SLC Law. His listed practice areas are business law, intellectual property law and civil litigation. The State Bar of California records his admission on June 5, 2007, and lists his license as active

Intellectual Property Law

373 Summer View, Mission Viejo, CA 92692

Michael A. Guiliana has a broad ranging practice and has represented start-up companies and well-established, multi-national companies. Michael has significant experience advising clients in all aspects of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, domain names, copyrights, trade secrets, rights of publicity, and false advertising. He frequently advises clients regarding strategically structuring their intellectual property estates and works to create an integrated and balanced portfolio that effectively combines the overlapping protections of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Michael frequently advises clients regarding offensive and defensive competitive strategies, prelitigation strategies, infringement studies, invalidity and noninfringement opinions, monitoring and enforcement of patent and trademark rights, strategic transactions and complex patent and trademark prosecution, including reexaminations, reissues, and IPRs. He assists clients with implementing internal programs to identify, evaluate and protect all forms of intellectual property. With a degree and experience in mechanical engineering, Michael has represented clients across a diverse range of technologies, including semiconductor, furniture, SAAS, and electronics manufacturers including RED Digital.Michael's experience includes advising early-stage companies through successful acquisitions, such as Telogis, Inc. (acquired by Verizon), Interlace Medical (acquired by Hologic, Inc.). Michael has also represented multi-national corporations, including Yamaha Motor and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited. He also has an extensive background in aerospace, automotive and power sport technologies. During law school, Michael published legislative review articles, served as an articles editor on his law review, and clerked for a patent law firm. He was a partner at Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear LLP for 16 years prior to joining the Villamar and Guiliana LLP as a partner in 2021.

Intellectual Property Law

79920 Tangelo, La Quinta, CA 92253

Area of Practice: Mediation

Intellectual Property Law

2029 Century Park East, Suite 1750, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Area of Practice: Entertainment Law

Intellectual Property Law

1999 Avenue of the Stars Suite 1100, Los Angeles , 90067, United States

www.vanderlawla.com

Intellectual Property Law

530 New Los Angeles Ave, #115-359, Moorpark, CA 93021

Area of Practice: Retired Superior Court Judge & Mediator

Intellectual Property Law

310 15th St, Santa Monica, CA 90402, USA

Area of Practice: Entertainment Law Born and raised in Los Angeles to a family of actors, Zeke has been surrounded by Hollywood since he was young. Upon graduating, Summa Cum Laude on an academic scholarship at Loyola Marymount University in 2012 with Honors, he played professional tennis on the ATP World Tour for three years. After obtaining a world ranking of 1729, he had to retire in 2016 due to a chronic knee injury, and turned to real estate agency to make ends meet. He became quite the successful businessman and negotiator in the process. He studied Entertainment Law at Southwestern and passed the CA Bar in July of 2022. During law school, he studied Constitutional Law, and came to the realization that everything depends upon citizen engagement in the form of voting. So, he started Mobilizing Civic Engagement to organize voters, create a space for healthy debate, and begin to heal the country from excessive polarization. He is currently heading his own law firm. The firm practices real estate law, business/corporate law, contracts, and entertainment law. He is a jack of all trades and master of most. If he thinks he cannot do a proper job for a client, he has a huge network of attorneys, specialists, experts, and politicians to help get the job done. Feel free to come to him for any legal issue(s), and if he can’t solve it personally, he knows someone who can. Everything is confidential, so don’t worry about disclosing details about your case to him. He takes pride in his work and loves what he does. As his mom reminded him recently, "At seven years old, you declared, by standing up on the living room coffee table no less, that your life’s mission was to be an attorney. You are meant for this Zeke. I am so proud that you are fulfilling your purpose. I can't hardly wait to find out how many people you help. You are a true man for others, and I'm excited to see how far you go."

Intellectual Property Law

1801 Century Park W, 5th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Bryan Freedman is a closely trusted advisor, representing talent, celebrities, and high net worth individuals within the studio system as they face significant legal challenges and the media machine that accompanies these very public matters. He knows where the leverage points are to achieve a settlement short of trial. And when he goes to trial, he knows how to win. Over the past 20 years, Bryan has been at the forefront of some of the most groundbreaking cases. He has built a robust practice that spans entertainment, real estate, employment, and commercial disputes, many of which have had meaningful implications on a national scale. With a reputation for taking on complex matters and a solid track record of success, Bryan has become the go to legal advisor in entertainment and sports, representing some of the biggest entertainers, gamers, influencers, agencies, and management companies. Leading entertainment publications have recognized Bryan for his work. Variety selected Bryan as one of its inaugural honorees in their Variety500 in 2017, an international professional index of the 500 business leaders shaping the global entertainment industry. Additionally, he has been selected by Variety for their Legal Impact Report in 2015, 2019 and 2022-24. Bryan has also been consistently honored by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the most influential entertainment litigators in the country on their Top 100 Power Lawyers List (2008-2022, 2025-2026). He also has the distinction of being named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Lawyers: Troubleshooters List (2023-2024), an honor reserved for only 25 selectees that are trusted to handle crisis situations and prevent future problems within the entertainment industry.