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Joseph H. Lee

Associate | Silicon Valley
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T (650) 453-5415
F (650) 362-2454
jlee@kasowitz.com

Joseph H. Lee is an associate in the firm’s intellectual property group.  Mr. Lee’s practice focuses on patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies, including those involved in the internet, semiconductor, networking, telecommunications, and software industries.  Mr. Lee has experience managing all phases of patent litigation, including early-phase case assessment, fact and expert discovery, claim construction, and trial.

While at Columbia Law School, Mr. Lee was Technical Editor of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review.  Prior to earning his law degree, Mr. Lee worked as a systems engineer at Hughes Space & Communications and a software developer for a private company focused on reverse-logistics enterprise software.

Notable Representations

  • Google and YouTube adv. Eolas (E.D. Tex.): represented multiple defendants in patent infringement action involving Internet and World Wide Web software technology. 
  • Apple adv. SRS (N.D. Ill.): representing defendant in patent infringement action involving computer configuration software technology. 
  • TransPerfect v. MotionPoint (N.D. Cal.): representing plaintiff in multi-patent infringement action involving website translation technology. 
  • Hitachi adv. Convolve (N.D. Cal.): representing defendant in patent infringement action involving hard disk drive acoustics management technology. 
  • Apple adv. Motorola (ITC): represented respondent in ITC Section 337 patent infringement investigation involving patents relating to smartphone and computer hardware, software, and networking technologies. 
  • Apple adv. Kodak (ITC): represented respondent in ITC Section 337 patent infringement investigation involving mobile telephones with digital cameras. 
  • Micron v. Rambus (N.D. Cal.): represented plaintiff in patent infringement, fraud, and equitable estoppel proceedings involving memory interface technology. 
  • Scientific-Atlanta v. Personalized Media Communications (N.D. Ga.): represented defendant in patent infringement and licensing action involving networking, encryption, and content-delivery systems in the cable industry. 
  • Oracle adv. Database Structures, Inc. (S.D. Cal.): represented defendant in patent infringement action involving compression technology in database systems. 
  • Lexar adv. Sorensen (N.D. Cal.): represented defendant in patent infringement action involving manufacture of USB memory devices. 
  • Cisco adv. Riparius (N.D. Ill.): represented defendant in patent infringement suit involving internet telephony devices. 
  • Microsoft adv. Computer Acceleration Corp. (E.D. Tex.): represented defendant in patent infringement action involving software optimization technology for computer software and operating systems.  Jury verdict in favor of defendant of non-infringement and invalidity. 
  • Samsung v. Rambus (E.D. Va.): represented plaintiff in patent infringement, fraud, breach of contract, and equitable estoppel proceedings involving memory interface technology.
  • Sam M. v. Carcieri (D.R.I. and 1st Cir.): represented plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit intended to address and reform systematic problems in the Rhode Island foster care system.  Won appeal of motion to dismiss before the 1st Circuit.

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Practice Areas

Education

  • Columbia Law School (J.D., 2005)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.S., Highest Honors, 1998)

Bar Admissions

  • California, 2007

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2007
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 2007
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2007
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2007
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, 2011
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