Chris K. Safarian

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Chris K. Safarian — patent litigation profile

Mr. Safarian's tracked patent-litigation footprint is a single matter: he appears as local counsel for the plaintiff in Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. NETGEAR, Inc. Fleet Connect is the asserting party in a wide NPE campaign (related complaints describe it as a non-practicing entity owned by Empire IP LLC, with 50-plus suits across at least ten districts); its asserted portfolio in the related cases covers Wi-Fi/IEEE 802.11 and OFDM wireless-communications patents as well as fleet/asset-management telematics patents — the Wi-Fi framing fits the NETGEAR accused products. Because the appearance is on the plaintiff/assertion side in that one case, the 1–0 plaintiff/defendant split in the data reflects one patent-assertion engagement, not a demonstrated two-sided patent practice.

Two cautions are warranted. First, the sample is one case and the role is local counsel, which typically involves the local procedural and admission mechanics of a case rather than substantive patent advocacy; it is not probative of a standing patent practice. Second, I could not find any public practice description tying him to patent or IP work: his firm bio and bar/third-party listings describe a real estate, finance & capital markets, and corporate/transactional practice, and the firm is publicly listed as practicing primarily corporate, real estate, and general litigation. I found no reported patent verdicts, Federal Circuit appeals, or settlements attributable to him.

Firm context. He co-founded Safarian Choi & Bolstad LLP (Los Angeles, 2011) with Alex Choi, after serving as a partner in the real estate group at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis and, before that, as an associate at Mayer Brown in Los Angeles. Those prior firms are relevant to his real estate/finance career, not to patent litigation. There is no indication he is in-house.

PTAB/IPR. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB filings naming him were found; there is no evidence of regular PTAB practice.

Bar/education. Admitted to the State Bar of California in December 1999 (Cal. Bar No. 205355); B.A., UCLA (1996) and J.D., UCLA School of Law (1999). Licensed in California only; no USPTO patent-bar registration was located.