Joseph Paunovich is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Quinn Emanuel. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and trials, including patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters. He has extensive experience working with Fortune and early stage technology companies as well as individual owners of intellectual property. Mr. Paunovich works tirelessly with clients to license their innovations, enforce intellectual property rights and defend against allegations of infringement. He is also a registered patent attorney and provides client counseling on strategic prosecution, reexamination proceedings and product design in connection with litigation matters.

Mr. Paunovich has worked on matters involving a wide variety of disciplines and complex technologies, including remote control and IR technology, passenger notification systems, cyclooxygenase selective inhibitors, wake surf technology, automobile financing and credit systems, viral vaccines and delivery systems, recombinant DNA, operating systems, cell phone applications and user interfaces, data compression methods, analog copy protection, network-attached storage devices and blade servers, respirator and hearing safety equipment, network distributed learning environments, printer ink cartridges, and diamond-like carbon films.

Mr. Paunovich was a member of the University of Michigan Inteflex Program (a combined B.S./M.D. program) where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and graduated from the University of Michigan Law School.