Tony C. Kwok

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Tony C. Kwok — Senior Patent Agent, Morrison & Foerster (Los Angeles)

Focus areas. Mr. Kwok's practice is primarily patent prosecution and portfolio counseling rather than courtroom litigation. MoFo's firm bio describes prosecution work in electronic devices, semiconductor materials and fabrication, user-interface technologies, MEMS, electronic packaging, augmented/virtual reality systems, autonomous vehicles, mechanical systems, LEDs, and thermal imaging sensors, plus IP due diligence (biomedical devices, health systems, antenna systems) and freedom-to-operate analyses in autonomous vehicles and LiDAR. His technical background is memory and integrated-circuit design. That profile is consistent with his litigation-support role in the tracked matter, which concerns camera hardware, optics, image stabilization, and image-processing software. Third-party prosecution-data aggregators (patentbots) list Genentech, Stryker, Dyson, MITRE, Roche, UC Regents, Cytokinetics, and Bayer among frequent applicant affiliations over the past decade — useful as a rough indication of breadth, but derived from USPTO assignment data and not verified against firm sources.

Side preference. Defendant/respondent side only. Across the tracked data he has one appearance, for the defendant in GoPro, Inc. v. Insta360 (0 plaintiff-side, 1 defendant-side). That is consistent with his broader docket: the firm's public team lists place him on the defense of Insta360 against GoPro and on the defense of Innovyze (an Autodesk subsidiary) against TaKaDu. There is no indication of NPE/PAE plaintiff-side work.

Firm context. He has been at Morrison & Foerster since 2016, based in the Los Angeles office, and holds the title Senior Patent Agent. Before MoFo he was an engineer at Qualcomm (2013–2016, embedded memory design), an electromagnetics engineer at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (2009–2012), and a technical intern at Lockheed Martin. No prior law-firm history was found in public sources.

Notable matters and PTAB work. His most prominent tracked matter is GoPro, Inc. v. Insta360 (Arashi Vision), a multi-front dispute spanning the ITC Section 337 investigation (Inv. No. 337-TA-1400), a parallel Central District of California action, and a series of Insta360-filed IPRs against GoPro camera patents. MoFo publicly announced a complete defense win in the Section 337 matter: the Commission's final determination of February 26, 2026 found no violation as to all five asserted utility patents (with claims of the '052 patent held invalid and others not infringed; no violation on the '413, '832, '840, and '894 patents), and found a violation only on the D'435 design patent, which the firm stated affects only certain older Ace-series models no longer sold in the U.S. Mr. Kwok is named in the MoFo team credits for that result; firm reporting indicates he handled technical/patent-support work rather than first-chair advocacy, which is expected given his patent-agent role. He is also named on the TaKaDu v. Innovyze multi-patent litigation team that MoFo reported resolving in July 2023; the public release does not disclose terms.

On the PTAB side, he is expressly listed as a registered practitioner on Insta360's power of attorney in IPR2025-00017 (GoPro '052 patent) and appears in MoFo's Insta360-IPR distribution group. The broader Insta360 IPR set (IPR2024-00984, -01052, -01164, -01165, -01186, -00017) produced mixed results — institution denied in IPR2025-00017, and final written decisions in IPR2024-01052 and IPR2024-01186 that are now on appeal — though public filings do not confirm Mr. Kwok individually on each of those proceedings, and the lead registered practitioners of record were Mehran Arjomand, Alex Yap, and Jean Nguyen. His IPR participation is best characterized as recurring support on the Insta360 engagement, not a demonstrated record of personally leading petitions.

Credentials. Registered to practice before the USPTO as a patent agent, Reg. No. 75,895; M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering, UCLA. As a patent agent rather than an attorney, no state bar admission is expected; none was identified.