Alan Grayson Laquer

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Alan Grayson Laquer — Knobbe Martens (Orange County/Irvine), litigation partner

Specialty / focus. Laquer is a generalist IP litigator whose docket skews toward software and information technology, consistent with his background as a programmer and a B.S. in Information and Computer Science. His matters span patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright, and technology-contract disputes, and he co-chairs Knobbe Martens' Copyright Litigation practice group. Verifiable technology areas include networking and TCP/IP (Nomadix cases), cloud/mobile printing (PrinterOn v. BreezyPrint), wireless audio and telecom (One-E-Way; ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-934), speech-assistant and mobile software (IPA Technologies v. TCL), consumer electronics, medical devices and pulse-oximetry (Masimo/ITC 337-TA-1134/-1136), X-ray imaging (Sigray), and 4G portfolio diligence work. Much of it is ITC Section 337 practice rather than pure district-court patent litigation.

Side preference. He works both sides, and the tracked data reflects that: 2 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance. Firm biographical material states he represents clients "as defendants as well as plaintiffs," and the searchable record bears this out — plaintiff/complainant work for One-E-Way, Masimo, Pavemetrics, and Pepperdata, alongside defense work for Amazon, Toshiba, TCL, Snapchat, and a cloud-printing startup. He is therefore best described as a defense-leaning mixed-practice litigator rather than a dedicated NPE/PAE prosecutor: his plaintiff-side engagements are typically operating companies or small technology holders, and he does not appear to run a volume assertion campaign.

Firm context. Multiple independent sources (Knobbe's own bio page, his USPTO registration No. 63635, Martindale, and Federal Circuit and district-court filings under California Bar No. 259,257) place him at Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear throughout his career, with no verified prior firm. One caveat: the tracked appearance in Express Mobile, Inc. v. Advantage AMP, Inc. (C.D. Cal. No. 2:19-cv-05155, terminated January 2020) is recorded as defendant-side lead counsel for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. I could not verify any Quinn Emanuel affiliation in public sources, so treat that firm attribution as unconfirmed; the case itself is confirmed as an Express Mobile assertion that terminated in early 2020.

Notable cases and outcomes. His most citable result is One-E-Way, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, 859 F.3d 1059 (Fed. Cir. 2017), where he was on the appellant's brief (Douglas Muehlhauser argued) in the reversal of the ITC's holding that "virtually free from interference" was indefinite — a divided panel decision, with Chief Judge Prost dissenting, that generated commentary for relaxing Nautilus. The matter later settled. He was listed among the Knobbe team representing Masimo in the Apple Watch dispute, which produced an ITC limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist order in October 2023 (stay lifted by the Federal Circuit in January 2024). Other reported wins include a summary-judgment defense for Toshiba against a $100M trade-secret claim (Intellisoft v. Toshiba), early summary judgment of non-infringement on all four asserted patents in PrinterOn v. BreezyPrint, a defense verdict for X-ray maker Sigray on willful infringement and trade-secret claims (per Managing IP, September 2025), and plaintiff-side summary-judgment and trial work for Pavemetrics against Tetra Tech (Pavemetrics v. Tetra Tech, C.D. Cal.). In the tracked Amazon v. SoundClear Technologies matter he appeared pro hac vice for Amazon; the related E.D. Va. case (No. 1:24-cv-01283) was stayed pending IPR, and the PTAB found the asserted '675 voice-classification patent unpatentable on September 4, 2026, as reported by Law360.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — this is a real part of his practice, not incidental. His firm bio states he has litigated IPRs for both petitioners and patent owners, and he has appeared in IPR proceedings including the Amazon/SoundClear petitions (IPR2025-01080, -01096, -01368) and an interference dispute defending Snapchat's patent ownership (Bigfoot v. Snapchat).

Bar / education. Admitted in California (2008); registered to practice before the USPTO. J.D., NYU School of Law (2008); B.S., Information and Computer Science, UC Irvine (2005), summa cum laude. He also serves as a criminal trial prosecutor in the Orange County District Attorney's Office through its Trial Attorney Partnership program.