Andrea Pallios Roberts

Andrea Pallios Roberts — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Roberts' patent work sits at the intersection of computer, networking, and life-science technology. Her tracked matters are concentrated in telecom/wireless portfolios — the Telcom Ventures campaign against Samsung, Apple and Google involved mobile-payment and cellular/file-transfer patents, and related Headwater Research v. Google matters — while her broader Paul Hastings practice description lists online search and advertising systems, battery saving, mobile messaging, autonomous vehicles, fiber optics, gene synthesis, pharmaceuticals, and CAD. She has tried cases in California, Texas, Washington, and Delaware, and the firm identifies her as lead trial counsel in federal court. Note that the firm bio also covers trade secret, copyright, and trademark work (e.g., Waymo v. Uber, TechShop v. Rasure), which is distinct from her patent docket.

Side preference. The tracked appearance record is entirely defense-side: 0 plaintiff, 4 defendant appearances, all representing operating companies rather than asserting patents. The three Telcom Ventures LLC v. Samsung Electronics entries (Paul Hastings) place her on the defense side against an NPE-type plaintiff, and the lone Quinn Emanuel entry is likewise a defense appearance. That said, her published representations are not strictly one-sided — she has acted for plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts, including patent-owner-side and commercial plaintiff engagements (e.g., Gruma/Mission Foods, Allergan v. Revance). The patent-specific pattern that emerges from the available record is defense of technology and consumer-electronics companies.

Firm context. Roberts is currently a Partner in the Litigation Department and the IP/Patent Litigation/Trademark/Trade Secrets practice at Paul Hastings LLP, based in the firm's Palo Alto office. She joined Paul Hastings in February 2022 from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where she practiced as an associate/of counsel in the Redwood Shores and San Francisco offices, appearing in matters including Rockstar Consortium v. Google (E.D. Tex.) and a Google patent case in the Southern District of New York. Her firm history therefore spans two elite IP trial shops rather than any in-house role.

Notable matters. Reported results include a complete defense verdict for Google in Bright Response (E.D. Tex.), where the plaintiff sought over $120 million in damages and the jury found non-infringement and invalidity as to all asserted claims; a defense jury win for Google/YouTube in Personalized User Model v. Google (D. Del.), with findings of non-infringement, anticipation, obviousness, and breach of an inventor's assignment obligation; and lead trial counsel for the defense in TechShop v. Rasure (N.D. Cal.), where the jury found infringement but awarded no damages. She also represented Waymo in Waymo v. Uber (N.D. Cal.) (settlement including $245 million in Uber equity and injunctive relief) and Verizon against Huawei in an E.D. Tex. fiber-optic standard-essential patent dispute that settled during trial. In the tracked Telcom Ventures v. Samsung litigation (E.D. Tex., No. 2:24-cv-00691, Judge Gilstrap), she appeared as lead counsel for Samsung in a case that proceeded through pretrial motions in limine; the docket shows extensive parallel PTAB activity but I could not verify a final judgment or verdict for that matter from the sources reviewed, so her specific outcome there should be confirmed against the current docket.

PTAB / IPR experience. Her firm is active in IPRs stemming from the Telcom Ventures campaign — Samsung, Apple, and Google filed numerous petitions, and Paul Hastings attorneys (e.g., Naveen Modi) appear as counsel of record in the IPR proceedings. However, I found no record confirming Roberts personally as counsel of record in a specific IPR/PGR. Her PTAB involvement should be described as firm-level rather than individually documented.

Bar / education. Admitted in California (State Bar No. 228128, 2003), with admissions reported to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California; J.D., U.C. Hastings College of the Law (magna cum laude, 2003); B.A., UCLA (cum laude, 2000) — sourced from her Paul Hastings profile and Martindale.