Maliheh Zare

I'll research Maliheh Zare's professional background before drafting the summary.

Key finding: she appears to have moved firms. Let me verify her current firm and dig into the Multifold matters.

Maliheh Zare — patent litigation summary

Focus areas. Zare's tracked patent work is concentrated in consumer-electronics and software interface technology and in pharmaceutical/insurance-adjacent patent disputes. Her most substantial patent engagement is the Multifold International matters, which concern dual-screen and foldable-smartphone user-interface patents (e.g., U.S. Patents 8,836,842; 8,881,053; 9,134,756; the Selim and O'Connor '834 patents) asserted against Motorola and Google in the District of Delaware. On the life-sciences side she has appeared as Delaware counsel for Eagle Pharmaceuticals (Eagle Pharmaceuticals v. Slayback Pharma, D. Del.) and for Aurinia in its voclosporin dispute against DifGen, and she appeared on an Alexion appeal filing. She also represents policyholders in declaratory-judgment actions against Intellectual Ventures (Munich Re America Services v. Intellectual Ventures; The Travelers Indemnity Company v. Intellectual Ventures I). Public firm biographies do not describe a technical specialty; her patent docket is best characterized as generalist commercial litigator staffing Delaware patent matters rather than a degreed engineering practice. I found no verified evidence of Wi-Fi/SEP or mechanical-arts patent work, so that should not be assumed.

Side preference. Her tracked record is evenly split (4 plaintiff / 4 defendant). She is not a dedicated defense-side or NPE-side lawyer: she has represented patent owner Multifold as plaintiff in district court (counsel of record in Multifold v. Motorola; local counsel in Multifold v. Google) while also appearing for Multifold on the defense side of Unified Patents' challenge and of Google's Delaware action against it. Her non-patent patent-adjacent work (Travelers, Munich Re) is likewise on the plaintiff/policyholder side. The pattern is that of a Delaware local/co-counsel and case-team associate rather than a first-chair portfolio litigator — five of eight tracked appearances are local or co-counsel roles.

Firm context. She is currently an associate in the Wilmington, Delaware office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, in the Directors & Officers Litigation and Complex Business & Commercial Litigation practices (per the firm's attorney page and her NatLawReview author bio, current as of 2026). She previously practiced at McCarter & English's Wilmington office, where she was Delaware counsel of record (Del. Bar No. 7133) on the Multifold, Eagle and Aurinia matters and formally withdrew from those appearances in January 2026. Her tracked record also lists one matter under Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell and one under Lewis Brisbois. Note a discrepancy: a Martindale profile lists her at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, which conflicts with the Lewis Brisbois contact information and biography appearing in 2026 court filings and publications; I could not verify a Young Conaway affiliation and treat the Lewis Brisbois affiliation as the better-supported one.

PTAB/IPR. Yes — she appears in the Multifold IPR cluster: Motorola Mobility v. Multifold (IPR2025-00039 and IPR2025-00040) and Google v. Multifold (IPR2025-00059), all instituted in May 2025, where she is copied on patent-owner-side correspondence on claim construction and claim election. She is also tracked as associate counsel for Multifold defending Unified Patents LLC v. Multifold International, consistent with regular PTAB exposure. I did not locate a published final written decision naming her.

Bar/education. Admitted in Delaware, the District of Columbia and New York (U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware; U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware). Education: J.D., magna cum laude, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law; LL.M. and J.S.D., New York University School of Law; Ph.D. (Private Law) and LL.M. (Intellectual Property), University of Tehran; LL.B., Imam Sadiq University. Sourced from her Lewis Brisbois profile; a conflicting Martindale entry lists a 2015 New York first admission and no Drexel J.D., so the credentials should be confirmed before use. No notable verdicts or Federal Circuit outcomes attributable to her were verifiable from public sources.