Maria A. Tartakovsky

Summary — Maria A. Tartakovsky (Patent Litigation Practice)

Maria Tartakovsky is an IP litigation associate whose practice centers on technology-related disputes in district court and the ITC. Her firm bio describes experience across biotech, consumer wearables, and software; the single tracked matter on her record — Headwater Research LLC v. Apple Inc. (W.D. Tex.) — involves wireless-network-offloading patents asserted by Headwater Research (a non-practicing entity) against Apple. Her web-searchable record also includes work on antibody/biotech patent litigation in Delaware (Harbour Antibodies BV v. Teneobio, Inc., per CourtListener, side unverified) and, per IPR filings, Apple-related matters in the Masimo/Apple disputes, which involve wearable sensor technology.

Her work appears consistently defendant-side: the tracked appearance is as counsel for Apple, an operating company defending against an NPE, and her IPR record similarly shows her on Apple's (patent owner) side in Masimo Corp. v. Apple Inc. (IPR2024-00071). I found no evidence of plaintiff-side or NPE-prosecution work.

She is currently listed as an associate at Desmarais LLP in San Francisco (firm bio and California State Bar address), after serving as a litigation associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (2021–2022), where she also clerked as a judicial extern to Judge Beth L. Freeman (N.D. Cal.). Notably, the authoritative appearance list attributes her Headwater v. Apple appearance to DLA Piper on a pro hac vice basis, a firm affiliation I could not independently verify through public sources — her published bio and bar record do not mention DLA Piper, so this may reflect a recent move or co-counsel designation.

Her PTAB/IPR exposure appears real but junior-level — she is named in the IPR2024-00071 record as a Desmarais associate on the patent-owner side rather than as lead counsel. Bar/education: admitted to the California Bar (2021); J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School (2021); B.S. in Biology, University of Florida (2018, magna cum laude).