Background

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 also has a deep technical background.  His technical experience, gained through IP litigation/prosecution work and actual industry work, spans across a variety of industries and technologies.  His technical diversity along with the legal experiences gained at law firms, in-house, and at the ITC has allowed Firasat to provide well-rounded IP advice to various companies and become their eyes and ears for all IP purposes. Additionally, Firasat's unique mix of in-house and law firm experience and his unparallel insights into in-house functions and the interplay between in-house and outside counsel has proven to be extremely valuable to his clients, especially in situations where a deep understanding of company's business is necessary in developing appropriate legal theories. 

In addition, Firasat has also worked on legal matters involving civil litigation, licensing, monetization of patents, IP due diligence for mergers & acquisitions and strategic investments, IP asset assessment and valuation, and taxation of IP.  He has also acted as primary counsel for companies and helped them with day-to-day corporate and IP issues.  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 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.

The John Marshall Law School: Chicago, Illinois - J.D.  

Intellectual Property Law Concentration, placed in top 20% in Herzog Moot Court Competition. Attended law school while working full time at Motorola and received dean's achievement award upon graduation.
 

Pennsylvania State University: University Park, Pennsylvania. Graduate Courses and Research in Electrical Control Systems, matriculated for M.S. degree.
 

Temple University: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. 

Managed and led the Robotics Institute at Temple University and was published in university's paper for successfully designing and developing the Institute's first un-manned remote controlled biped robot.
 

Motorola University: Schaumburg, Illinois. Took various engineering courses relating to communication systems.

Stanford University: Took venture capital non-degree courses offered by Stanford Business School.  

Bar Admissions: United States Patent and Trademark Office; State Bar of California.  

Co-Chair: Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Delhi - Intellectual Property Program

Executive Committee - OPEN Silicon Valley

Board Of Supervisors - Technology Credit Union (San Jose)

South Asian Bar Association of Northern California:  Formerly served as General Secretary and Mentorship Co-Chair