Firasat teaches US Patent Law and Drafting.
Firasat has over twelve years of experience in litigating, prosecuting, and counseling clients on intellectual property (IP) matters. His litigation experiences include serving as trial counsel in several patent cases taken successfully to verdict both in Federal District Courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). His prosecution and portfolio management experiences include preparing and prosecuting patents in a wide range of electrical, mechanical, and software technologies, managing portfolios and supervising attorneys on prosecution matters, advising both small and large clients on portfolio growth, and managing IP issues for two Motorola divisions.
Firasat has a deep technical background and has worked with a wide range of technologies, for example, Firasat has worked with the following technologies: Mobile Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicle, Shared Economy Applications, Automotive, analog/digital circuits, biotech, consumer electronics, hardware/networking, Internet, LCD panels and controllers, medical/surgical devices, optical storage, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, servers/routers, software, and space systems.
Firasat frequently publishes and speaks on various IP topics. Some of his engagements include University of California Berkley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, India-based Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and Motorola, Inc., where Firasat has taught several courses on topics relating to enforcement and thorough protection of intellectual property.
Firasat had a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School: Chicago, Illinois, M.S. degree from the Pennsylvania State University and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Temple University: Philadelphia
Bar Admissions: United States Patent and Trademark Office; State Bar of California.
