Aaron Poledna
- Member, Firmwide Executive Committee; Firmwide Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Practice
- Seattle
- Palo Alto
Aaron provides strategic intellectual property counseling to emerging companies and investors in the medical device industry, from incubation through acquisition or initial public offering.
Aaron Poledna, firmwide co-chair of Perkins Coie’s Intellectual Property (IP) practice, represents medical device clients and investors in the medical device and digital health industries across the United States and Europe. In recent years, Aaron has been involved in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding for emerging medical device companies, and his emerging company clients have been involved in acquisitions worth billions of dollars.
Aaron has extensive experience with both domestic and foreign patent prosecution as well as portfolio development, management, enforcement, and licensing. He frequently provides clients with strategic advice regarding portfolio positioning, analysis of third-party patents (for validity and infringement concerns), and identification of key patent assets for acquisition or monetization.
Aaron performs patent preparation and prosecution in a variety of technology areas, including medical devices, aerospace technology, semiconductor processing and fabrication, cannabis-related technology and products, consumer and industrial electronics, financial services and systems, and software. His experience with medical devices includes renal neuromodulation, cardiovascular devices (e.g., radiofrequency ablation catheters and pulsed field ablation catheters), robotic surgical systems, cardiac mapping systems, patient monitoring systems, neurovascular devices, ophthalmic devices, prosthetic devices, endovascular devices, and spinal devices. Additionally, Aaron counsels clients on design patents and industrial designs.
Recommended by Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000 as patent counsel, Aaron has a background in aerospace engineering and worked at Boeing as a flight operations engineer before beginning his law practice. He is involved in several life sciences industry associations and leads community involvement and pro bono efforts in the firm’s Seattle office.
Areas of focus
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Services
Education & Credentials
Education
- University of Colorado Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief, University of Colorado Law Review, 2002
- University of Washington, B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1997
Bar and Court Admissions
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Washington
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Related Employment
- Hon. Wiley Y. Daniel, U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Judicial Extern, 2002
- Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, Summer Associate, 2001
- Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Dallas, TX, Summer Associate, 2001
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Summer Law Clerk, 2000
- The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, Senior Flight Operations Engineer, 1997-1999
- U.S. Attorney’s Office, Seattle, WA, Legal Clerk, 1993-1997
Professional Recognition
Listed in “IAM Strategy 300 - The World’s Leading IP Strategists,” 2018-2019
Listed in Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000, 2018-2024
Listed in Washington Law & Politics, “Rising Stars of Washington Law,” 2009-2012