Mauricio Uribe

I'll research this attorney's professional background before drafting.

Let me verify the tracked case and check for PTAB/IPR experience.

Let me pin down Uribe's role in the Avidbots/Brain dispute and check PTAB involvement.

Specialty / focus areas. Uribe's practice is centered on patent prosecution and portfolio development plus technology and standards-essential-patent (SEP) licensing, rather than on contested litigation. Firm and ranking-directory bios describe core technical strengths in software, electrical engineering and telecommunications, with named experience in wireless standards, multimedia encoding/decoding/transmission, network communications, virtualization, content distribution/streaming, AI/ML and distributed ledger technology, and industry coverage spanning financial services, consumer electronics, automotive, medical devices and networking. He holds engineering degrees in both electrical and computer engineering. His one tracked matter — the Avidbots/Brain dispute over autonomous floor-scrubbing robot navigation, mapping and sensor technology — sits squarely in the robotics-electrical-software space those bios describe.

Side preference. The tracking data show a single appearance, on the plaintiff side, with no defendant-side appearances. That is too thin a docket to support any inference about a plaintiff/NPE-versus-defense orientation; his career profile is that of a counseling, prosecution and licensing lawyer rather than a courtroom litigator. Notably, a 2024 University of Kansas Law alumni profile described him as having built a software and emerging-technology practice "without ever stepping foot into a courtroom," although he did appear pro hac vice in the Avidbots–Brain matter in late 2024.

Firm context. The tracked appearance lists Knobbe Martens, where he joined as a partner in the Seattle office in 2008, co-founded that office, and chaired practice groups in software/IT, electrical, and data privacy. In May 2025 he moved to Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle as an IP partner; DWT and AIPLA materials identify him as chair of the IP practice / co-chair of the patent group. Before Knobbe he practiced roughly two years in Kansas City after his 1998 graduation, and bios consistently cite about eight years as an in-house or seconded attorney for international companies.

Notable matters and outcomes. The tracked case is the Avidbots–Brain dispute. Public dockets show Brain Corporation's infringement suit against Avidbots in N.D. Ill. (No. 1:24-cv-12569, filed Dec. 6, 2024) asserting autonomous-navigation patents (e.g., U.S. 10,379,539; 10,274,325; 10,823,576; 10,728,436; 10,001,780), with Uribe's pro hac vice motion filed Dec. 18, 2024 alongside other PHV counsel. Avidbots then filed a family of IPRs against Brain's patents (IPR2025-01600 through 01604, filed Oct.–Dec. 2025); PTAB databases show institution decisions in early 2026, with at least one proceeding terminated in March 2026 on discretionary denial. Two cautions: the IPR papers list Brian Buroker for petitioner and Daniel Hughes for the patent owner, not Uribe, so I could not independently verify him as counsel of record in those proceedings; and the tracking caption ("Avidbots Corporation v. Brain Corporation") runs opposite the district court caption, so it may reflect the PTAB/petitioner framing. Beyond this dispute, his most visible public profile is in SEP licensing programs and in commentary on NFTs, the metaverse and emerging-technology IP, not in reported trial verdicts or Federal Circuit appeals.

PTAB / IPR experience. His DWT and Chambers bios state that he has represented clients before the USPTO for more than 25 years with a focus on IPR and PGR strategies and filings, and that he has supported district court, PTAB and ITC matters. I found no independently verifiable list of IPR/PGR proceedings in which he was counsel of record, so that description should be treated as firm-supplied rather than confirmed by neutral sources.

Bar / education. J.D., University of Kansas School of Law, 1998 (editor-in-chief, Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, per DWT); B.S. electrical engineering and B.S. computer engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, 1995. Admitted in Missouri (1998), Kansas (1999) and Washington (2001), with USPTO and federal court admissions per his firm bio.