Lucas Oxenford

Lucas Oxenford is a patent litigation attorney at Irell & Manella LLP, focusing on a broad range of intellectual property and complex business disputes, including patent, trademark, trade secret, and antitrust matters. His technical background includes a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, with minors in Applied Mathematics and Chemistry, which complements his practice across diverse technology areas such as browser extension technology, multibeam sonar, gene therapies, athletic shoe designs, and complex computing and networking infrastructure.

Oxenford primarily represents defendants in patent infringement lawsuits. His tracked cases show appearances exclusively on the defendant side. For instance, he represents Valtrus Innovations Ltd. in Starbucks Corporation v. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al., a case where Starbucks is seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity, and invoking Washington's Patent Troll Prevention Act against Valtrus's patent assertions relating to technologies like Apache Kafka and Kubernetes.

A notable case in his portfolio involved representing Fortress Investment Group, Fortress Credit Company, and VLSI Technology in an antitrust and unfair competition suit against Intel and Apple, which was dismissed on the pleadings and affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, earning the team a Daily Journal 2022 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) Award. He also defended Honey Science LLC in RetailMeNot, Inc. v. Honey Science LLC, a patent infringement suit concerning browser extension technology. His experience further includes handling PTAB/IPR proceedings, as evidenced by his involvement in Farmers Edge Inc. et al. v. AGI SureTrack, LLC, and his firm's defense of patent-holding entities like Valtrus, which frequently engages in IPRs related to its acquired patent portfolios.

Mr. Oxenford is admitted to the State Bar of California and practices in various federal district courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.