Martin Bader

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Martin Bader is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office.

Martin is a Chambers ranked intellectual property trial lawyer and registered patent attorney. He has obtained numerous high-profile victories for technology clients at trial and on summary judgment in the District Courts throughout the U.S. and at the International Trade Commission (ITC). He is also highly skilled at 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.

He has handled numerous high-profile IP 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 served as lead counsel on over a dozen other cases relating to Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and has obtained a complete defense jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas and a verdict of non-infringement for respondent at the ITC.

Clients rely on his background in Electrical Engineering and technology as an intellectual property attorney to litigate highly complex patents and conduct post-grant proceedings before the USPTO. This background has allowed him to successfully resolve cases for his clients involving many diverse technologies, including 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G (e.g., GSM, GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, UMTS, WiMAX, HSPA, CDMA2000, and LTE), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, USB modems, Video and Audio compression standards (e.g., MPEG, MQA and others), wireless modems, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), internet systems, web-browsers for wireless devices, Android OS, liquid crystal displays (LCD) and televisions.

He was named by Chambers as Leading Lawyer for Intellectual Property Patent Litigation in 2023. He was also ranked as the #1 overall performing lawyer in the country at the PTAB, and the #1 lawyer representing Petitioners (with a 100% success ranking) in the Patexia IPR Intelligence Report. He has also been named as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by Best Lawyers, and one of “The World's Leading Patent Professionals” by IAM Patent.