Martin Bader is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office.
Areas of Practice
Martin is an intellectual property litigator. He has obtained numerous high-profile victories for high technology clients at trial and on summary judgment in the District Courts throughout the U.S. He is also experienced in conducting post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including as lead counsel in inter partes reviews (IPRs) and ex parte reexaminations, and was named as one of the "Top Attorneys in the PTAB" for his IPR filings.
Martin has served in key roles in high-profile trials, including as one of the lead trial lawyers in the TCL v. Ericsson case in which he obtained a major victory on behalf of TCL. In that case, TCL sought a FRAND license to Ericsson's 2G/3G/4G SEP portfolio and the Court ultimately set rates between four to 12 times less than Ericsson was demanding. This case was named a "Milestone Case of the Year" by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, as it was the first case to ever value a large SEP portfolio. He has also litigated over a dozen other cases relating to Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), including a complete defense jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas.
Martin has an Electrical Engineering degree and litigates patents and conducts post-grant proceedings before the USPTO involving many diverse technologies, including the 2G, 3G and 4G wireless standards and LTE, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, UMTS, WiMAX, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, CDMA2000, Bluetooth, GPS, USB modems, Video and Audio compression, wireless modems, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), internet systems, web-browsers for wireless devices, software, Android OS, liquid crystal displays (LCD) and televisions. He has litigated many cases relating to SEPs and/or FRAND commitments made to standard setting bodies.
Martin is also a registered patent attorney, counseling clients on intellectual property protection strategies and prosecuting patent applications and trademark registrations before the USPTO. He represents clients in IPRs, patent reexamination proceedings and trademarks oppositions before the USPTO, and conducts IP due diligence for corporate transactions and acquisitions. He has filed dozens of petitions for IPR in connection with concurrent patent infringement actions related to cellular technology, including 3G and 4G technology, location based services, the Android operating system and others.
Further, Martin manages the filing and prosecution of patent applications for companies ranging from startups to those that are well-known Fortune 100 companies in a wide variety of technology areas, including biometrics, medical devices, telecommunications, modems, video compression, LCD, analog and digital electronics, communications systems, network systems, GPS, computer software, internet, radar systems, semiconductor, electro mechanical systems, mechanical systems, signal processing and software.
