Biju I. Chandran

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Biju I. Chandran, Ph.D. — Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Reston, VA)

Focus areas. Dr. Chandran's practice is prosecution-anchored rather than purely litigation-driven. Finnegan's profile describes a focus on patent prosecution and client counseling in mechanical, electrical, and semiconductor technologies, with particular experience in electric-vehicle batteries and charging, EV/grid integration, semiconductor devices and fabrication, automotive systems, and medical devices. The litigation matters in which he has appeared track that technical profile — semiconductor process and packaging patents (trench isolation, through-silicon vias, backside metal layers) and mobile-device touch-screen technology. His background is unusually technical: a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, roughly nine years in Intel's semiconductor packaging technology development group, and prior service as a USPTO patent examiner in the semiconductor components art unit. He is a named co-inventor on more than 20 U.S. patents.

Side preference. The tracked counts (4 plaintiff-side, 2 defendant-side) should be read with care: all six entries arise from two related matters involving the same parties, so the split reflects procedural posture (IPR petitioner vs. district court defendant) more than a broad portfolio of representations. Substantively, he works almost entirely for large operating companies — Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electronics America (and, in the Harbor Island IPRs, NXP Semiconductors) — attacking NPE/PAE-held patents at the PTAB and defending infringement claims in the Eastern District of Texas. He is not an NPE-side prosecutor; his one verified patent-owner-side appearance was for Prolitec, an operating company defending its own portfolio.

Firm context. He is currently at Finnegan Henderson in Reston, Virginia. Public records (Super Lawyers, USPTO filings, and PTAB powers of attorney) show a prior association with Bookoff McAndrews PLLC in Washington, D.C., where he appeared as back-up counsel in PTAB matters through roughly 2020. He has no in-house practice; his Intel tenure predates law practice. He is registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 63,684), which serves as the identifier confirming these records all describe the same attorney.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. He appears regularly in IPR proceedings, typically as back-up counsel. The most prominent tracked matter is Harbor Island Dynamic, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., No. 2:24-cv-00140-JRG-RSP (E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap), consolidated with related litigation against NXP, in which Samsung/NXP filed parallel IPRs (IPR2024-01402 through -01405) that he supported. Both district court cases were stayed pending the IPRs. The Board issued final written decisions in March 2026 finding the challenged claims unpatentable in IPR2024-01402 and IPR2024-01405; the patent owner sought Director Review and appealed, but the Federal Circuit dismissed Appeal No. 26-1670 by agreement on September 15, 2026. He also supported Samsung's IPRs against patents held by Village Green Technologies (IPR2022-00956, -00957) and W&Wsens Devices. Earlier, at Bookoff McAndrews, he was on the petitioner's team in EIS GmbH v. Novoluto GmbH (IPR2019-01302). On the patent-owner side, he argued the oral hearing for Prolitec in ScentAir Technologies v. Prolitec (IPR2021-00012); Finnegan announced on April 28, 2022 that ScentAir's attempt to cancel all claims of two asserted patents failed and dozens of claims were confirmed patentable. No jury verdicts or Federal Circuit merits decisions attributable to him personally are publicly reported in the sources reviewed.

Bar and education. Admitted in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and before the USPTO; J.D., George Washington University Law School (2008); Ph.D. and M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas (1996, 1991); B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerala (1987).