Evan M. McLean

Evan M. McLean is a patent litigation attorney at Jones Day, where he focuses on representing leading technology companies in complex intellectual property disputes. His practice areas encompass a broad range of technologies, including telecommunications infrastructure, distributed software architectures, web-based services, video/audio streaming and compression technologies, payment systems, smartphone features, network security software, navigation technology, web conferencing, and semiconductor device processing and packaging. He frequently handles cases involving cutting-edge areas such as voice assistant technology and machine learning.

Based on his tracked appearances and firm profile, Mr. McLean primarily represents operating companies, often on the defendant side, though he also handles plaintiff-side declaratory judgment actions as a defensive strategy. For example, he represented Google LLC as a plaintiff in a declaratory judgment action against K. Mizra LLC in the Northern District of California. He also defended Google LLC when K. Mizra LLC subsequently filed an infringement suit in the Western District of Texas, asserting patents related to machine learning and wireless communication.

Mr. McLean has contributed to significant outcomes for his clients, including successfully defending Google LLC against patent infringement claims concerning technology purportedly related to the Siri voice assistant, and obtaining dismissal for Cohesity Inc. in a six-patent competitor suit. He has also represented Motorola Mobility, LG Electronics, and Samsung Electronics in actions involving smartphone navigation applications, and defended Google and YouTube in a ten-patent case concerning video encoding. He regularly litigates at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), where he successfully represented Google LLC in invalidating three patents through IPRs asserted against Google Assistant.

Mr. McLean earned his J.D. in 2011 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he was an editor for the Hastings Law Journal, and holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University (2005). He is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California and the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas.