Giorgos Stamatopoulos

Giorgos ("George") Stamatopoulos — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Stamatopoulos is a New York-based trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim LLP whose patent and trade-secret practice centers on technically complex enforcement and monetization disputes. Per the firm's published profile, his patent work spans mobile-device antennas, wireless connectivity, network infrastructure, software, and life sciences, and he has appeared in state and federal courts, the ITC, and before the USPTO. A former structural engineer (with graduate study at UC Berkeley), he is recognized in IAM Strategy 300 and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for IP litigation. His tracked docket shows exclusively plaintiff-side patent work (1 appearance, all for Fractus, S.A.), and public records — including his appearances as patent-owner counsel for RJ Technology LLC and Orckit Corporation — indicate a practice weighted toward IP holders and licensors, though firm materials note he also defends against infringement claims. Publicly available sources identify Kobre & Kim as his firm throughout his litigated appearances (dating to at least 2019); no prior firm was reliably identified, and he is not in-house.

His most prominent tracked matter is Fractus, S.A. v. ResMed Inc. et al. (S.D. Cal., filed Oct. 13, 2025), in which Fractus alleges ResMed's connected sleep-apnea therapy devices infringe miniaturized, multi-band antenna patents; press coverage identifies him as one of three Kobre & Kim trial lawyers leading the case. Firm materials also credit him with Fractus's infringement actions against major U.S. wireless carriers and antenna manufacturers, which settled favorably with transfer of a base-station antenna portfolio after trial presentation, and with the four-week CSIRO patent/contract trial in the Eastern District of Virginia concerning agricultural-biotechnology patents (a matter World IP Review describes as a $400 million enforcement victory). Separately, his bio highlights a $604.9 million jury verdict (plus exemplary damages) in Propel Fuels v. Phillips 66, a trade-secret matter reflecting his trial experience.

Stamatopoulos has meaningful PTAB/IPR experience, consistently on the patent-owner side. He appeared pro hac vice in Samsung/Apple v. RJ Technology (IPR2023-01183), including at the October 2024 oral hearing, and in multiple Cisco- and Apple-filed IPRs involving Orckit and RJ Technology patents (IPR2023-00401, -00402, -00554, -00714, -01350). He is admitted in New York (2013), the S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., E.D. Tex., and the Federal Circuit; he holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law (Editor-in-Chief, NYU Journal of Law and Business), an M.S. in structural engineering from UC Berkeley, and a civil engineering diploma from the National Technical University of Athens. Note that "Giorgos Stamatopoulos" also names an economics professor in Crete and other non-patent attorneys; this profile addresses only the Kobre & Kim litigator.