Mark Samuels

Partner

Mark A. Samuels is a partner in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office.  He serves as a member of the Firm's Policy Committee and as Chief of Staff of the Firm's 550-lawyer Adversarial Department.  From 2000-2007, Mark served as Chair of the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Practice.  His profile appears in Chambers USA’s “Guide to Leading Lawyers” every year since 2005, and he has been named one of California’s Top 25 intellectual property lawyers by the Los Angeles Daily Journal.  He is listed in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of “Best Lawyers in America,” and recommended by the Practical Law Company in its "PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008."  He has broad experience in complex patent, trade secret, antitrust, and other technology-based litigation.  Mark’s work has included representation of:

• Actel Corporation in Actel Corporation v. BTR, Inc., a case involving claims of patent infringement and trade secrets misappropriation relating to a type of integrated circuit known as a Field Programmable Gate Array
• Actel Corporation in Actel v. QuickLogic Corporation, a patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets case involving ten patents covering a type of integrated circuit known as a Field Programmable Gate Array
• Actel Corporation in Unisys v. Actel Corporation, a patent infringement case involving semiconductor process technology
• Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. in Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Intel Corporation, an antitrust case involving claims of unlawful monopoly maintenance in the worldwide x-86 microprocessor market
• Bourns in Bourns, Inc. v. Raychem Corp., an antitrust/patent fraud action involving a series of patents related to passive electronic components and also involving claims for trade secrets misappropriation
• Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., in In re Certain Set-Top Boxes and Components Thereof, a Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission involving several patents relating to interactive program guides used in cable television set-top boxes
• Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., in In re Gemstar Development Corporation Patent Litigation, a series of related patent infringement and antitrust actions
• IBM in Davin Computer Corp. v. IBM, a misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition case involving processing of instructions in personal computers
• IBM in IBM v. Conner Peripherals, Inc., a massive series of litigations involving 18 patents covering a broad array of computer disk drive technologies
• IBM in MIU Automation Corp. v. IBM, a patent infringement case involving an encryption device
• Internet Machines Corporation in Alcatel Internetworking v. Internet Machines Corporation, a misappropriation of trade secrets case involving integrated circuits used in network switches
• Luppen Holdings, Inc. in Luppen Holdings, Inc. v. Pitney Bowes Inc., a trademark infringement suit involving Pitney Bowes' PERSONAL POST OFFICE and PERSONAL POST postage systems
• Milestone Entertainment, LLC in Sande Stewart Television, Inc. v. Milestone Entertainment, LLC, a patent infringement case involving novel games of chance
• Motorola in Power Integrations v. Motorola, Inc., a patent infringement action involving power supply voltage regulatory circuits
• Nuance Communications, Inc. and Phonetic Systems Ltd. in Nuance Communications, Inc., et al. v. Tellme Networks, Inc., a patent infringement case involving speech recognition software
• Sempra Energy in CBSI v. Sempra Energy, a case involving a large software development project
• Skechers USA, Inc. in Adidas v. Skechers USA, Inc., a trademark infringement action involving footwear
• Skechers USA, Inc. in Global Brand Marketing Inc. v. Skechers U.S.A., Inc., a patent infringement case involving footwear designs
• Sweda Company LLC in Lin v. Sweda Company LLC, a patent infringement suit involving novelty keyboard brushes
• Top Victory Electronics in In re Certain Digital Televisions and Certain Products Containing Same and Methods of Using Same, a Section 337 investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission involving patents related to digital television technology
• Top Victory Electronics in Funai Electric Co., Ltd. v. TPV Technology, Ltd., et al., a patent infringement action involving digital television technology
• Top Victory Electronics in Top Victory Electronics v. Hitachi Ltd., a patent infringement action involving patents related to CRT and LCD computer display technology
• TPE Associates in TPE Associates v. Flick, a patent infringement action involving a non-toxic pest eradication system
• Carla Woods and Jeffrey Goldberg in Woods, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation, a corporate governance case involving the right to control an innovative medical device company known as Advanced Bionics

Professional Activities

Board of Directors,  Public Counsel
Member,  American Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Federal Circuit Bar Association; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; Los Angeles Superior Court Arbitration Panel; California State Bar, Intellectual Property Section; ABA Litigation Section Liaison to Task Force on Reduction of Litigation Cost and Delay; Board of Directors, UCLA School of Law Alumni Association