Robert Becker is a partner in the Palo Alto office and chairs the Patent Litigation & Prosecution practice. He represents both emerging and developed companies in complex patent, antitrust, copyright, trade secret, and trademark cases in federal courts throughout the United States.

Mr. Becker is recognized as one of the top lawyers in his field. He recently was selected for inclusion in IP Law & Business’s May 2008 “Top 50 Under 45” and the Daily Journal’s 2010 list of the top Litigators in California. He is a regular speaker and writer on intellectual property law and has been quoted in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and the Daily Journal.

Mr. Becker has successfully represented clients in disputes relating to a wide variety of technologies, including wired, wireless and cellular networks; e-mail, e-commerce and Internet business methods; music recognition and downloads; content encryption and copy protection; data storage, access and synchronization; analog and digital signal processing; computer software, hardware and peripherals.

Representative Recent Litigation
Mr. Becker is leading the charge for a wireless e-mail company after successfully representing them in scores of cases against RIM, Microsoft, Motorola, Seven Networks and others. In the Seven case, an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a verdict of willful infringement and a damage award of 19.75%. In the RIM cases, RIM settled for $267.5 million.

Mr. Becker successfully enjoined 321 Studios from selling the popular DVD X Copy piracy software.

Mr. Becker successfully defended a patent infringement action against Musicmatch and the popular Musicmatch Jukebox.