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Joshua L. Tucker
Associate
Assistant
Toni Stanley512.542.2112
Josh Tucker is an associate in Bracewell & Giuliani's intellectual property group. He works with inventors throughout the patent process including investigations, application preparation and filings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Josh counsels clients in a wide range of technical areas including software for geolocation, distributed computing, wireless protocols, network security, image processing, and enterprise resource planning. He also has experience with patents relating to medical devices, oilfield equipment, power electronics, and semiconductor device architecture and packaging. Josh's patent drafting and prosecution experience comes from several years of litigating patents, both on behalf of the patentee and the accused party, including proceedings before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and patent litigation in Federal District Court, as well as experience analyzing patent portfolios on behalf of investors and patent licensors.
Before his legal career, Josh was a semiconductor process engineer for a large semiconductor manufacturer. His work included transferring processes between factories, analyzing stochastic data feeds from ongoing processes, and developing data visualization software and image-analysis software for monitoring manufacturing processes.
Representative Matters
In the Matter of Certain Integrated Circuits, Chipsets, and Products Containing Same including Televisions, Media Players, and Cameras, 337-TA-709. Assisted with discovery and trial in a patent infringement case on behalf of Freescale Semiconductor in a three patent International Trade Commission investigation involving semiconductor circuits and packaging technologies
Certain Semiconductor Chips Having Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Controllers And Products Containing Same – 337-TA-661. Assisted with discovery on behalf of NVIDIA Corp. and its customers in a nine patent ITC investigation involving SDRAM controller patents and the JEDEC standards
Data Detection Systems, LLC v. BMC Software, Inc. Assisted with discovery in patent litigation involving network management software on behalf of BMC Software (Southern District of Texas)
Cooper Notification v. Twitter, Inc., Everbridge, Inc. et al. Assisted with discovery for provider of notification messaging system in defending against claims of patent infringement (District of Delaware)
OLA v. Builder Homesite, Inc., New Home Technologies LLC, et al. – Assisted with mediation for providers of application services for the homebuilding industry against claims of patent infringement, theft of trade secrets, antitrust, and related claims (Eastern District of Texas)
Education
J.D., with honors, The University of Texas School of Law, 2004
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1998
Bar Admissions
Texas
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Affiliations
State Bar of Texas
