Rajeev Gupta Ph.D.

Partner

Rajeev Gupta focuses his practice on patent litigation in the U.S. district courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), strategic patent prosecution, and client counseling. He has considerable experience in telecommunications, optics, semiconductors, and in areas pertaining to fabrication and characterization of nanodevices. His nanodevice experience includes physics of nanomaterials, laser manipulation of atoms, high-resolution optical Fourier transform spectroscopy of nanomaterials, quantum computing, quantum devices, and use of synchrotron radiation and other vacuum ultraviolet sources for characterization of materials and detectors for microlithography.

Dr. Gupta has broad experience in all aspects of patent litigation, including examining and cross-examining fact and expert witnesses at trial, taking and defending depositions, and managing day-to-day litigation activities. He has tried cases before administrative law judges at the ITC.

In addition to his litigation practice, Dr. Gupta advises clients on a wide variety of patent matters, including licensing and strategic prosecution matters.

Prior to joining Finnegan Dr. Gupta served as a staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where his research activities covered a wide array of topics, including, nanofabrication of one and two dimensional magnetic and non-magnetic arrays; microlithography with the use of excimer lasers and radiation from synchrotron sources; development of deep ultraviolet optical sensors; and high accuracy characterization of optical materials for optical microlithography.

Highlights

• Represented Interdigital against major manufacturers of cellular telephone handsets in In the Matter of 3G Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) Handsets and Components Thereof, 337-TA-601.
• Represented Interdigital against major manufacturers of cellular telephone handsets in In the Matter of 3G Mobile Handsets and Components Thereof, 337-TA-613.
• Represented Hillcrest Laboratories against manufacturer of video game devices in In the Matter of Certain Video Game Machines and Related Three-Dimensional Pointing Devices, 337-TA-658.
• Awarded U.S. Patent No. 6,165,188—Method of Fabrication of Structures by Metastable Atom Desorption of a Passivating Layer.
• Served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Linn, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2005-2006.

Professional Recognition

• Awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce silver medal for technical excellence for innovative research in the field of high-accuracy metrology for semiconductor device fabrication, 2000.

Professional Activities

• Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court (treasurer, 2010-present)
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• American Bar Association (Intellectual Property Law Section)

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "USA, India Eagerly Awaiting U.S. Supreme Court's Decision on Software and Business Method Patents," Business Times, Nov. 2009.
• "Fabrication and Domain Imaging of Iron Magnetic Nanowire Arrays," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, 1998.
• "Nanostructure Fabrication by Reactive-ion Etching of Laser-Focused Chromium on Silicon," Applied Physics, 1998.
• "Replica Molding Using Polymeric Materials: A Practical Step Toward Nanomanufacturing," Advanced Materials, 1997.
• "Nanostructure Fabrication via Laser-Focused Atomic Deposition," Journal of Applied Physics, 1996.
• "Raman Induced Avoided Crossing in Adiabatic Optical Potentials: Observation of Lambda/8 Spatial Frequency in the Distribution of Atoms," Physical Review Letters, 1996.