Chris Hodge is a patent litigator with additional experience in international trade secret litigation, technology licensing, patent prosecution, and corporate litigation. Chris utilizes his electrical engineering background to assist clients on high-tech patent and trade secret matters ranging from drafting infringement/invalidity contentions, dispositive motions, written discovery, discovery disputes and document collection, trial preparation and strategy, and claim construction briefing. He also has experience in technology licensing support, litigation research, and working with fact and expert witnesses to develop testimony and expert opinions.
Chris's intellectual property practice involves numerous technologies in the high-tech and biotech areas, including: 5G cellular communications, artificial intelligence (AI), pharmacy benefits management, bioinformatics, semiconductor devices, optical network architecture, field-programable gate array (FPGA), memory systems, radio-frequency identification tags (RFID), and software architecture. Chris previously worked as a research assistant to simulate and model advancements in control systems, where he developed a technical background in VHDL (very high-speed integrated circuit hardware description language), MATLAB (matrix laboratory), LTSpice (circuit simulator), and Python (programming language).
Chris also actively supports the Firm's pro bono initiatives, including assisting clients with navigating asylum proceedings with Jones Day's Border Project and discovery support for Jones Day's Constitutional Policing and Civil Justice Reform (CPR) Initiative.
Experiência
- University of San Diego (J.D. cum laude 2020, with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Technology Law; B.A./B.S. in Electrical Engineering cum laude 2017)
- California and U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of California and the Eastern District of Texas