Office

Marc Sockol is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and the former Office Managing Partner in the firm's Silicon Valley office.

Areas of Practice

Marc specializes in intellectual property rights. He applies his technical and legal skills to client counseling, portfolio analysis and development, preparation and prosecution of patent applications, preparation of patentability, invalidity and noninfringement opinions, and the assertion and defense of patent litigation claims. He also has experience in trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, open source and technology licensing.

Many patents that he has drafted have been litigated and have brought licensing revenue to his clients. Recent examples include three patents for a software company involving data synchronization and three patents for a network security company.

Marc has drafted, prosecuted and defended more than 1000 patent applications across a broad spectrum of technological areas, including:

Application development tools

Artificial intelligence

Biometrics

Bitcoin and block chain

Business methods

Computer hardware (including memory systems, microprocessors, bus communication, video displays, disk drives, and scanners)

Computer software (including application software, computer games, operating systems, and system drivers)

Database structures

Digital and analog circuitry

E-commerce

Fault tolerant systems

HVAC

IoT and home automation

Machine Learning

Medical devices

Microware communication

Multimedia distribution systems

Networking

Network and computer security systems

Optics

POS hardware and software

QAM

QOS monitoring

RFID

SAAS

Satellites

Semiconductor design and fabrication

Set-top boxes

Solar power

Sound networking

Storage management systems (including RAID systems)

Thin films

Tracking systems

Video games

Web analytics

Wireless systems (including WiFi, WiMax and LTE)

Experience, Representative Matters

Prepared and prosecuted four patent applications for Finjan, Inc., a provider of cybersecurity solutions (hardware and software) to the enterprise. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided on January 10, 2018 that Blue Coat Systems, Inc., is liable for infringement of three of the four patents including the primary patent involved, the ‘844 patent, that Marc prosecuted through issuance and owned by Finjan; the court awarded approximately $39.5 million in royalty damages;

Prepared and prosecuted patent applications involving data synchronization software on behalf of a software company that is currently managing a successful enforcement program. The enforcement program has earned the company close to a billion dollars. In fact, the company asserted a patent infringement litigation based on patents he drafted that achieved a $267.5 million jury award;

Practices

Intellectual Property

Copyrights

IP Licensing,

Technology and Commercial Transactions

Patent Litigation

Patent Prosecution and Counseling

Trade Secrets

Trademark Applications and Prosecution

Trademarks and Trade Dress

Industries

Entertainment and Digital Media

Social Media and Games

Education

J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law, 1992

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1989

Admissions

California

U.S. Patent & Trademark