Waheed Khan
Waheed Khan
Biography
Waheed is an associate in the Dallas office of Norton Rose Fulbright. His practice primarily focuses on patent infringement litigations. A Patent Attorney registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Waheed also practices in patent prosecution.
Before joining the Firm, Waheed served as a law clerk to the Honorable David C. Guaderrama of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Waheed has an electrical engineering background, which includes a decade of industry experience. Prior to his law career, Waheed worked as an integrated-circuit design engineer at several blue-chip semiconductor companies and designed microprocessors (x86, SPARC®, and ARM® architectures), smartphone SoCs, flash memories, and chips for network routers and switches. He designed a wide variety of analog and digital circuits, including control logic, flip flops and latches, register files, memory cells, operational amplifiers, phase-locked loops, and voltage regulators. Waheed developed software and GUIs for analyzing circuit performance and researched effects of manufacturing variability on product yields.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
Waheed has handled patent cases in federal courts across the country including in Texas, California, Florida, and Virginia, as well as in the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).
- Defended a financial services provider in a three-patent case involving mobile apps, iOS/Android Operating Systems, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocols (W.D. Texas)
- Defended a voice and data communication services provider in a nineteen-patent case involving Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL and VDSL) technologies and DSLAM/modem hardware and firmware (W.D. Texas)
- Defended a network equipment manufacturer in a case involving Internet gateway routers, firewall, and network security (E.D. Texas)
- Defended a voice and data communication services provider in a five-patent case involving Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks (GPON), Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), and Resilient Packet Ring (RRR) technologies (E.D. Texas)
- Defended a music performing rights organization in a four-patent case involving audio signal recognition technology (E.D. Texas)
- Defended multiple defendants in patent cases involving geocoding and geographic search engine (E,D. Texas)
- Defended a telecommunication and data services provider in a six-patent case involving Location Based Services (LBS), geocoding, navigation, and search engine technologies (N.D. Texas)
- Defended a network equipment manufacturer in a case involving Internet gateway routers and Ethernet technology (N.D. California)
- Defended multiple defendants in the hospitality industry in patent cases involving online ticketing systems (S.D. California)
- Defended a bank in a patent case involving secure online banking technology (S.D. Florida)
- Defended an auto insurance company in a patent case involving policy underwriting systems (E.D. Virginia)
Education
Education
- LL.M., Intellectual Property/Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law, 2009
- J.D., magna cum laude, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, 2008
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1995
While in law school, Waheed was an associate editor of the Texas Wesleyan Law Review and a member of Phi Delta Phi. He was admitted to practice law in Texas in 2008. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas, and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Publications
Publications
- Author, "Federal Circuit weighs in again on reviewability of institution decisions," Norton Rose Fulbright's Patent Challenge Blog, February 23, 2016
- Author, "PTAB confirms that assignor estoppel does not apply in IPRs," Norton Rose Fulbright's Patent Challenge Blog, October 19, 2015
- Author, "Federal Circuit Addresses Use Of BRI Standard and Motions To Amend Claims in IPRs," Norton Rose Fulbright's Patent Challenge Blog, July 24, 2015
- Author, "PTAB Holds Patent CBM-Eligible Because of Its Application in the Banking Industry," Norton Rose Fulbright's Patent Challenge Blog, June 15, 2015
- Author, "PTAB Corrects Petition's Filing Date Because E-Filing System Was Down," Norton Rose Fulbright's Patent Challenge Blog, May 15, 2015
Speaking engagements
Speaking engagements
- Presenter, "Two-Way Media LLC v. AT&T, Inc., 782 F.3d 1311 (Fed. Cir. 2015): Attorney Mistakes Cost Client $40 Million," Norton Rose Fulbright's Monthly Intellectual Property Law Seminar: CLE Presentation, May 20, 2015
- Presenter, "Sipnet EU S.R.O v. Straight Path IP Group, Inc., IPR2013-00246 (PTAB Oct. 11, 2013): 'Printed Publication' in Inter Partes Reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board," Norton Rose Fulbright's Monthly Intellectual Property Law Seminar: CLE Presentation, April 1, 2015
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
- Attorney Mentor, L.A. Bedford, Jr. Mentorship Program at the UNT Dallas College of Law
- Represent low-income clients in pro bono cases through the Dallas Bar Association's Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP)
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