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Los Angeles OfficeUS Bank Tower, 633 West 5th Street, Suite 4900, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America 90071-2032
Nisha Patel Gupta is a trial lawyer and litigator specializing in all areas of intellectual property with a focus on patent, trade secret, and licensing disputes. She has represented technology, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies as both plaintiffs and defendants in federal courts nationwide. Additionally, she has managed post-grant matters involving complex technical patents before the USPTO, including re-examination and Inter Partes review proceedings.
Ms. Gupta has also managed large-scale global litigation while in-house at a large tech company, which allows her to offer a unique business perspective and an understanding of the litigation experience from the client's point of view.
When not actively litigating IP cases, Ms. Gupta maintains an active pro bono practice, which has included serving as first chair in a jury trial in the Northern District of California and successfully arguing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
In 2025, The Legal 500 US recognized Ms. Gupta for Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation, noting she “stands out for her deep tech experience, which spans telecoms, computer architecture, semiconductors and medical devices.” Ms. Gupta was named a 2025 Patent Star by Managing Intellectual Property, and Highly Commended as a Rising Star of the Year by Life Sciences Patent Network's LSPN 2025 Awards. She was also honored by Profiles in Leadership Journal's 2025 Women Worth Watching® in STEAM, which recognizes women excelling in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
In 2024, Ms. Gupta was selected to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellows Program, which is designed to connect high-potential lawyers from distinguished organizations for a year-long professional development series that emphasizes leadership and relationship building. Fellows are chosen based on their demonstrated leadership skills, as well as their active commitment to the legal community and diversity and inclusion activities.
Key Matters
- One of the world’s largest multinational telecommunications companies in a EDNY federal court criminal case alleging misappropriation of trade secrets relating to a software development kit, including allegations of reverse engineering of both firmware and hardware.
- IPCom in multiple patent infringement suits involving six patents relating to 3G, 4G and 5G telecommunications systems.
- Intellectual Ventures in multiple patent infringement suits involving ten patents relating to LTE systems, ultimately resulting in a US$43 million jury verdict.
- Intellectual Ventures in multiple patent infringement suits involving over 28 patents related to various aspects of telecommunications services including LTE and 3G infrastructure, SMS messaging, MMS messaging, web-based services and directory assistance.
- LinkedIn in a patent infringement suit involving patents relating to recruitment / job searching methods.
- Music Choice in patent infringement and contract suits, and related Inter Partes review proceedings, regarding media-on-demand technology.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals in trade secret misappropriation and contract suits relating to sleep-related drugs.
- Mondis in a case against LG’s digital televisions that implement HDMI and VESA plug-and-play technology, resulting in a US$45 million jury verdict.
- BPI Sports LLC in a patent infringement case involving nutritional supplements utilizing L-citruline.
- One of the world’s largest telecommunications companies in a criminal matter involving RICO, conspiracy and theft of trade secrets, among other claims.
- A digital telehealth company in a patent litigation dispute in the Northern District of California involving six patents, related Inter Partes review proceedings and patent portfolio counseling.
- An artesian bottled water producer in trademark portfolio counseling and enforcement strategy.
Includes matters handled at Dechert and prior to joining the firm.
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- University of California, Berkeley, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2008
- University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2011, cum laude
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- California
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- United States Patent and Trademark Office