Gregory Arovas

Gregory Arovas is a highly regarded intellectual property litigation attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he is also a member of the firm's Executive Committee. His practice encompasses high-stakes patent and trade secret disputes, representing clients in a broad spectrum of technology areas. These include computer hardware and software, communications (wireless, telecommunications, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DSL), medical products, integrated circuits, microprocessors, semiconductor processing, aerospace, power systems, and data center equipment. He has significant experience with standards-essential patents (SEPs).

Arovas primarily defends operating companies, particularly large technology entities. While his firm profile notes representation of both plaintiffs and defendants, his tracked case appearances are all on the defendant side, often for major corporations like Samsung. This is consistent with his broader practice, which frequently involves defending prominent high-technology clients such as Intel, IBM, Samsung, Sony, and Oracle in complex intellectual property disputes.

Notable cases include his role as lead counsel for Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in Netlist Inc. v. Samsung et al. and VB Assets, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co. In a significant victory, he secured a dismissal for Samsung in a patent infringement case brought by Staton Techiya and Synergy IP in the Eastern District of Texas, based on findings of plaintiff misconduct and "unclean hands." Arovas also led the defense of Alcatel-Lucent against Wi-Lan in a case involving standards-essential patents and helped Samsung prevail in an ITC dispute against Spansion over flash memory chips, which resulted in an exclusion order and subsequent settlement. He further served as co-lead trial counsel for Intel and other companies against Wi-Lan Inc., where claims on 18 of 21 patents were lost or dropped.

His practice extends to proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), where he has represented petitioners such as Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. in numerous Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings. Arovas earned his J.D. cum laude from The University of Michigan Law School in 1992 and a B.S. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1989. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1993 and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.