Alberto Araiza
- Palo Alto
- Los Angeles
Al is an intellectual property attorney who devises innovative solutions to help clients achieve successful outcomes from their creative endeavors.
Alberto Araiza crafts IP strategies to achieve clients' corporate objectives and helps founders and investors develop patent portfolios for successful exits, including initial public offerings and acquisitions. He performs valuations for sales and acquisitions, develops monetization and cost optimization strategies, handles patent cross-licensing, and conducts comprehensive technical investigations related to patent assertions, including developing infringement and invalidity theories.
Al protects innovations with domestic and foreign patents for technologies from wireless communications, climate, and artificial intelligence to blockchain and digital currency, virtual and mixed reality, and consumer products. Al's clients include Atlas Reality, Alpha Grid, Doxel, Forge Global, Notion Labs, Sud Scrub, T-Mobile, and Weavix.
Al's engineering experience in the defense industry spans computer modeling for energy systems and circuitry design for communications systems. He is also an accomplished biomedical researcher with publications in several medical journals.
In his pro bono practice, Al represents children in immigration matters regarding asylum, special immigrant juvenile status, and cancellation of removal proceedings. He also assists clients with the naturalization process for citizenship.
Areas of focus
Industries
Services
Education & Credentials
Education
- Duke University School of Law, J.D., Managing Editor, Duke Law & Technology Review, 2012
- Tulane University, M.Eng., Biomedical Engineering, VIGRE Fellowship in Applied Mathematics, 2004
- University of California, Los Angeles, B.S., Electrical Engineering with a Biomedical Engineering concentration, with Honors, 2001
Bar and Court Admissions
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California
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Additional Languages
- Spanish
Professional Recognition
Hispanic National Bar Association/Microsoft IP Law Institute, Fellow, 2017, 2018
Listed in Lawyers of Color Hot List, 2014
Impact
Professional Leadership
- Palo Alto Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Chair, 2021-2023
- Firmwide Co-chair of the Latinx Lawyers Resource Group, 2020-2023
- Firmwide Strategic Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Member
- Perkins Coie Charitable Foundation, Palo Alto Contributions Committee Chair
Community Involvement
- Experts in Entrepreneurship for the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Duke I&E)
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