Lawrence D. Graham

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Lawrence D. Graham — Lowe Graham Jones PLLC (Seattle, WA)

Specialty / focus. Graham is a registered patent attorney whose practice is centered on intellectual property litigation and prosecution, with a stated emphasis on electrical, computer, and software technologies. His technical background is electrical engineering (B.S.E.E., U.S. Air Force Academy), and he has written and lectured extensively on software/computer-industry IP issues, including the book Legal Battles that Shaped the Computer Industry (Greenwood Press, 1999) and columns as soft-law editor for IEEE Software. The single tracked matter, Vision Works IP Corp. v. Polaris, Inc. (S.D. Cal. No. 3:21-cv-01565), involved automotive electromechanical/acceleration-sensor patents (e.g., U.S. 8,315,769), consistent with an electrical-and-mechanical-systems docket. Firm and ranking profiles describe a broad IP boutique practice spanning patent litigation, prosecution, reexamination, licensing, and alternative dispute resolution, rather than a single technical niche. (Sources: lowegrahamjones.com attorney profile; IAM Patent 1000 profile; docket via Justia.)

Side preference. The tracked data show one appearance, on the defendant side, as local counsel — too thin a sample to characterize a systematic plaintiff/defendant orientation. The underlying case fits the common pattern of an out-of-district defense team retaining a Seattle IP boutique for local representation against a non-practicing entity (Vision Works IP has asserted these vehicle-sensor patents against Tesla, Nissan, Suzuki, Subaru, TATA, Polaris, Geely, and Mercedes-Benz). The firm's own materials describe a mixed IP practice (both prosecution and defense-side litigation) and do not indicate that Graham prosecutes NPE/PAE assertions himself.

Firm context. Graham is a member of Lowe Graham Jones PLLC in Seattle (the firm appears in some directories under a former name, Black Lowe & Graham). Biographical databases (e.g., Martindale, Prabook) indicate he began practice at Seattle's Christensen, O'Connor, Johnson & Kindness; this early-firm detail comes from lower-reliability directory sources and should be confirmed before reliance.

Notable cases and outcomes. Vision Works IP Corp. v. Polaris, Inc. is the only tracked case; the public docket shows Polaris answered and counterclaimed in October 2021, after which the record is not readily verifiable in the retrieved sources, and no outcome (verdict, settlement, or dismissal) could be confirmed. It is worth noting that the asserted patents have been under separate third-party attack: Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination of U.S. 8,315,769, which the Central Reexamination Unit granted in April 2026. Graham's firm profile claims trial and appellate experience, including arguments before the Federal Circuit and the Second, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits, and service as a court-appointed special master conducting claim construction; those claims are self-reported and no specific reported decision attributable to him was verifiable in this search.

PTAB / IPR. No reliable evidence was found that Graham regularly appears in IPR or PGR proceedings. One PTAB document references the firm's docketing address in an ex parte prosecution appeal (Gorder), not an AIA trial; his appellate profile rests on Federal Circuit and regional-circuit work. Treat IPR/PGR experience as unconfirmed.

Bar / education. Admitted in Washington (1995) and registered with the USPTO; J.D., University of Washington (with honors); M.B.A., Pepperdine University; B.S.E.E., U.S. Air Force Academy. (Sources: firm website, Martindale, Super Lawyers.)