K&L Gates Expands Palo Alto Office with Addition of Two Intellectual Property Litigators
January 11, 2010
Palo Alto — The Palo Alto office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Karineh Khachatourian and Bryan J. Sinclair as partners in the firm's intellectual property litigation practice. They join K&L Gates from Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
Khachatourian has extensive experience representing a wide range of technology companies throughout the Silicon Valley and the United States. Concentrating on patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, trade secret disputes, inventorship and ownership issues, she has handled disputes involving computer software and hardware, silicon wafer inspection, integrated circuit simulation tools, LCD technology, and related consumer electronics. Khachatourian currently serves as president of the Women’s Intellectual Property Lawyers Association.
With a practice focused on patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret litigation and enforcement, Sinclair also has considerable experience representing Silicon Valley companies in jurisdictions throughout the United States. He has obtained successful results in numerous IP matters involving technologies that range from server load balancing, integrated circuit design, and semiconductor wafer inspection, to biochemical compounds and medical devices, as well as in disputes involving Web-based technology development, source code copyright infringement, and a variety of design patent matters.
Jon Michaelson, Administrative Partner of K&L Gates' Palo Alto office, said: "We are very excited with the recent growth of our office and our enhanced ability to represent technology-based enterprises locally and throughout the Bay Area. Karineh and Bryan are creative and energetic lawyers, and we expect that they will make important contributions to the continuation of these initiatives."
K&L Gates Chairman and Global Managing Partner Peter J. Kalis said: "With the addition of Karineh and Bryan, K&L Gates' intellectual property litigation capability in the Silicon Valley takes a major stride forward, and our leading firmwide practice in IP litigation gains additional strength."
To learn more about K&L Gates' intellectual property litigation practice, please visit the firm’s Web site.
K&L Gates is a global law firm with lawyers in 33 offices located in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and represents numerous GLOBAL 500, FORTUNE 100, and FTSE 100 corporations, in addition to growth and middle market companies, entrepreneurs, capital market participants and public sector entities. For more information, visit www.klgates.com.