Gary C. Ma

Gary represents clients in patent and trade secret litigations before U.S. district courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC). His litigation experience includes arguing motions and taking multiple cases to trial. He represents and counsels clients on inter partes reviews, reexaminations, and interference proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He also counsels clients on non-adversarial matters, including conducting freedom to operate and patentability opinions and helping clients to develop useful and valuable patent portfolios.

Gary has helped clients obtain favorable results in high-stakes patent licensing negotiations involving all sizes of patent portfolios, ranging from a few patents to thousands of patents. Drawing from his litigation and licensing experience, Gary counsels clients on various other patent matters, including strategic development of patent portfolios, and providing freedom-to-operate, patentability, non-infringement, and invalidity opinions.

Clients Gary works with innovate in a wide variety of technologies in the chemical, electronic, and mechanical arts, from children's safety and recreational products and bicycle components, to polypropylene compositions, and petroleum product manufacturing, to wireless communications devices, light emitting diodes, optical sensors, liquid crystal displays, IC design, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gary regularly lectures and authors articles on patent law topics. He teaches classes on U.S. patent litigation at the Institute of Technology Law at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and presents or participates in panels at advanced intellectual property law seminars in the United States, Taiwan, and China. Prior to joining Finnegan, Gary interned for the Honorable Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during law school. He worked as a process engineer at Chevron Products Company U.S.A. Inc. before starting his legal career.