Irfan Lateef, a distinguished IP litigator with over two decades of experience, serves as the chair of the firm’s Electrical, Semiconductor & Computer Technology Litigation Committee and leads the firm’s Japan practice.
His expertise has earned him recognition among the premier IP litigators in the “World’s Leading Patent Professionals” for the Patent 1000 guide by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) magazine and the “IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists.” He has been listed in the Legal 500, and is included among the Daily Journal’s “100 leading IP attorneys in California” for his extraordinary representation of Toshiba Corp.
Clients entrust Irfan to tackle some of their most technically complex matters due to his comprehensive understanding and experience across a spectrum of industries.  His electrical engineering background gives him the ability to master diverse technologies, such as wireless communications (e.g., 5G, LTE, 802.11, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, satellite), semiconductors, audio and video decoding technologies, consumer electronics (e.g., televisions, gaming consoles, smartphones, tablets), advanced signal processing, and digital and analog circuitry. His expertise extends to medical devices.  With a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, he possesses unique insight into wearables, noninvasive patient monitoring, breath analyte monitoring, blood component separation, atrial fibrillation devices, ECG and EEG signal processing, imaging (e.g., MRI), and acoustic signal processing.