Attorney
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Alisa Lipski
Alisa is a USPTO-licensed intellectual property litigator who has driven results in high-stakes Patent and Trade Secret cases across the country. Having practiced at litigation boutiques her entire career, Alisa has a unique understanding of the litigation process, from pre-suit due diligence to appeal, in both federal and state courts. She has honed her skills, often on behalf of small companies or solo inventors, against some of the biggest companies and law firms in the country. Alisa has argued dozens of case dispositive motions in courts around the country, taken and defended hundreds of depositions of both fact and expert witnesses, engaged in extensive motion practice and otherwise guided a multitude of cases from pre-suit to conclusion, whether trial, settlement or appeal.
Before joining FYK in 2020 Alisa practiced for seven years at Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing PLLC (AZA), in their patent group. Prior to that, she was a name partner of a Houston-based patent litigation boutique..
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Intellectual Property Litigation
Trial counsel for St. Lawrence Communications against Motorola in Case No. 2:15-CV-351 in the Eastern District of Texas, in which, after a week-long trial, a verdict of willful infringement and damages of $9.2 million were awarded. Alisa was part of the team responsible for damages issues, as well as the jury charge.
Trial counsel for Rembrandt Wireless Technologies LP against Samsung in Case No. 2:13-CV-11213 in the Eastern District of Texas resulting in a $15.7M patent infringement verdict.
Successfully defended an enterprise software company and its customers from claims of patent and copyright infringement from their use of an open-source XML parser. This case, in which Alisa obtained multiple dismissals of the plaintiff’s patent claims, resulting in one of the first opinions nationwide that interpreted the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2). XimpleWare, Inc. v. Versata Software, Inc., No. 5:13-CV-05161-PSG, 2014 WL 2080850, at *7 (N.D. Cal. May 16, 2014).
Instrumental in post-trial briefing reducing a nearly six-million-dollar jury verdict to zero for her client Steve Harper, Polycarbonate Consulting Services, and Steve Harper Consulting in Trinseo S.A. v. Steve Harper et al., Cause No. 4:20-CV-0478.
Briefed and argued for Biomedino in front of the Federal Circuit in Biomedino, LLC v. Waters Techs. Corp., 490 F.3d 946 (Fed. Cir. 2007).
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University of Houston Law Center, J.D.
University of Texas at Austin, B.S. Biochemistry
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State Bar of Texas
State Bar of California
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court for Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for Southern District of California
U.S. District Court for Central District of California
U.S. District Court of Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan