Kumar Maheshwari is a second year associate at Foley & Lardner LLP. He offers more than six years of experience as a patent prosecutor. Mr. Maheshwari represents clients who specialize in various industries such as, banking, automotive, wireless, analog and digital hardware, software, business methods, semiconductor, storage, superconductivity, and medical devices.
Mr. Maheshwari's practice is dedicated to counseling clients with regard to IP protection strategies, including representing clients pursuing patent protection at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, his legal experience includes infringement risk assessment and avoidance, and other intellectual property counseling.
His representative matters include:
- Drafting at least 150 patents and prosecuting numerous patent applications to issuance
- Performing a comprehensive risk assessment mapping 750 competitor patents against product landscape for large financial services company
- Conducting IP due diligence in connection with acquisition of $250 million company
- Successfully prosecuting several business method patents
Mr. Maheshwari is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and admitted to practice in the state of California. He is a member of the California Minority Counsel Program, and Los Angeles Intellectual Property Bar Association.
Prior to attaining his Juris Doctor, he was a software test engineer for Agilent Technology and a program manager intern for Microsoft. Mr. Maheshwari received his B.S. in computer engineering from the University of California, Davis. His J.D. was conferred cum laude by the University of La Verne, College of Law, California, where he was a staff writer and managing editor of the Journal of Juvenile Law. He is a recipient of the Scholarship Certificate and Key from the Delta Theta Phi (international law fraternity).