Brian E. Mack

Brian Mack is a partner in Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco office.  He joined the firm in 2011.  His practice focuses on high-stakes complex commercial litigation and intellectual property disputes, including patent, copyright and trademark infringement, antitrust, unfair business practices, and intellectual property licensing.  He has undergraduate degrees in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science from Hamilton College and a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.  Prior to joining the firm, he worked in the telecommunications industry as a satellite network software engineer.  He has applied his education and technical training to intellectual property matters involving such technologies as computer systems architecture, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), programmable logic devices, channel coding, data encryption, microprocessor design, semiconductor fabrication and packaging, telecommunications, video encoding, memory systems, and business methods.   

Brian has tried cases in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as before the International Trade Commission.  He has tackled many complex intellectual property issues, including FRAND licensing, standards setting organizations, patent exhaustion, unfair competition, patent interferences and patent reexamination proceedings.  He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and has prosecuted an international docket of patent applications relating to a wide array of technology areas including medical devices, semiconductor technologies, telecommunications, programmable logic devices and business methods.