Reza Mirzaie

  Los Angeles

  rmirzaie@raklaw.com

  310.826.7474

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PRACTICE AREAS

Appellate

Litigation & Trial

Intellectual Property

Patent Litigation

EDUCATION

University of Illinois College of Law (JD); Associate Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review

University of Southern California (BS, Electrical Engineering)

Reza’s practice focuses on patent litigation and licensing. Frequently called upon to develop worldwide litigation and licensing strategies, Reza has obtained more than $600 million for his clients in the past five years alone. Having never lost a jury trial, Reza uses his significant trial experience and success to drive successful outcomes for his clients. 

Reza is also a registered patent attorney licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Complementing his litigation expertise, he has worked on numerous successful post-grant matters before the USPTO.

Reza was recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2022 and 2024.  Prior to that, he was recognized numerous times as a Super Lawyers Rising Star. And from 2015-2022, Reza was recognized as a Southern California Top 100 Rising Star. 

Prior to joining Russ August & Kabat, Reza was an equity partner at Knobbe Martens LLP.

Recent Matters

• In Ecofactor, Inc. v. Google, (W.D. Tex. 2022), Reza and Marc Fenster co-led the RAK team that won a $20 Million jury verdict of infringement, and no invalidity against Google related to smart thermostat and energy saving HVAC controllers. 
• In Solas OLED v. Samsung, (E.D. Tex 2021), Reza second-chaired a RAK team that secured a $62.7 Million jury verdict of willful infringement against Samsung Display, Samsung Electronics Corporation and Samsung Electronics America on patents related to OLED and touchscreen technology in Samsung’s mobile phones.
• Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics (E.D. Tex. 2019). Reza was lead counsel for a RAJK team that won a jury verdict for damages the full damages model sought by  their client, Conversant Wireless (formerly Core Wireless) against LG. 
• In Realtime Data v. Riverbed,  (EDTX 2017), Reza second-chaired a RAK team that obtained a jury verdict of infringement in a trial against Riverbed for patent infringement related to data compression and data acceleration.
• In Core Wireless v. Apple, 5-15-cv-05008 (N.D. Cal. 2016), Reza second-chaired a RAK team that secured a verdict of infringement and no invalidity on both patents against Apple for infringement of two standards essential patents involving cellular technology. This appears to be the first time Apple has lost a patent case in NDCA.
• Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v. LG Electronics (E.D. Tex. 2015). Reza second-chaired a RAK team on behalf of Core Wireless in two matters against LG with respect to fundamental telecommunications and graphical user interface patents. Obtained verdict of willful infringement with respect to U.S. Patents 7,804,850 and 6,633,536.
• Inventio AG v. Otis Elevator Co. (S.D.N.Y. 2011). Represented Plaintiff Inventio in a patent infringement lawsuit involving destination dispatch elevator systems. Obtained jury verdict that Otis infringed all asserted claims and that all infringed claims were valid.
• In the Matter of Certain Notebook and Components Thereof (I.T.C. 2011). Represented Toshiba in a patent infringement investigation involving notebook computer products. Just before trial and after defeating each summary judgment motion brought by Wistron, the case settled with Wistron paying for a license.
• iRise v. Axure Software Solutions, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2009). Represented Plaintiff iRise in a patent infringement lawsuit involving prototyping products for software visualization. Obtained summary judgment that Axure infringed asserted claims and successfully defended against summary judgment of invalidity and non-infringement.