Chethan Srinivasa is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is a member of the Electronics Practice and the Emerging Technologies Industry Team.
Previously, Mr. Srinivasa was a summer associate in the Intellectual Property Department of Foley’s Boston office. While in law school, he was a judicial intern for the Honorable Marianne B. Bowler, Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, where he did legal research, wrote bench memoranda, and briefed the judge on patent infringement mediations. He was also an intern with the Massachusetts Attorney’s General Office - Department of Business, Technology and Economic Development, where he researched and wrote policy memoranda on a range of issues affecting businesses in the Commonwealth, including auto insurance regulations, Internet sales tax, data security breaches, and debt-collection regulations.
Mr. Srinivasa also gained experience with an in-house legal department where he performed patent prosecution, drafted, reviewed, and negotiated business agreements, and assisted with litigation in intellectual property, employment, and antitrust.
Prior to his legal career, Mr. Srinivasa worked as a radar systems engineer for a large defense company, where he was a subject matter expert on discrimination algorithms for a missile defense system. He also gained experience at mobile software and engineering companies and a transplant immunology research lab.
Mr. Srinivasa has an entrepreneurial background as well. He was a co-founder and chief executive officer for a portal advertising Web site, and worked as an independent invention researcher.
In November 2012, Mr. Srinivasa presented at the New England Corporate Counsel Association seminar, “IP Law and Practice: What’s New and Why It’s Important To Your Company.”
Mr. Srinivasa graduated from Northeastern University School of Law (J.D., 2011). During law school, he was the chair of the Intellectual Property Society, president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and Treasurer of the National Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, in electrical engineering and minor in math (B.S., 2005) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he held officer positions in Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
Mr. Srinivasa is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and is registered as a patent attorney before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the Boston Intellectual Property American Inn of Court and the Boston Patent Law Association.