Soumya Panda
Senior Associate
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Soumya Panda

Senior Associate

SOUMYA (SOUM) PANDA is an attorney in the firm's Electrical Patent Prosecution practice group, with a focus on wireless technology. Mr. Panda drafts and prosecutes patent applications for both domestic and foreign clients in a variety of technology areas, including wireless communications and networking, digital signal and image processing, medical devices, semiconductors, fiber optics, and computer architecture.

In addition to his patent prosecution work, Mr. Panda prepares invalidity and non-infringement opinions involving wireless communication and digital signal processing technologies. He also has experience with United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) post-grant procedures such as ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings and reissue applications.

Mr. Panda graduated from the Franklin Pierce Law School, where he served as Senior Editor of the Pierce Law Review and participated in the Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court competition. While in law school, he served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Steven J. McAuliffe of the United States District Court of New Hampshire.

Representative Matters

Represents a worldwide company based in Canada with significant operations in the U.S. The company designs telecommunication and wireless devices for wireless emails. Mr. Panda prepares and files reexamination requests involving patents asserted against the company in U.S. district courts.

Represents a worldwide company based in the U.S., which designs and sells wireless telecommunication headsets and wireless infrastructure network equipment.  Mr. Panda protects the company’s highly diversified technological products by defending the company’s patents in reexamination matters.

Represents a worldwide company based in the U.S., which has a patent portfolio including mobile devices that permit navigation of Internet web pages. He protects the company’s portfolio by defending the company’s patents in reexamination matters. Mr. Panda further prepares and files reexamination requests aimed at strengthening the company’s settlement positions in related litigations.

Represents one of the world’s largest designers and sellers of video, wireless, and information technology products. Mr. Panda protects the company’s highly diversified technological products and intellectual property interests in the U.S. by prosecuting applications before the USPTO.  He further prepares applications aimed at increasing the company’s protection of its technologies involving fourth-generation wireless standards.

Represents a worldwide company based in Japan, which designs advancements for medical devices.  He protects the company’s core technologies by drafting patent applications which protect the company’s technologies in the field of positron emission tomography.

Represents a worldwide company based in Japan, which designs and sells wireless communication devices. He protects the company’s core technologies by prosecuting patent applications aimed at covering industry wireless standards. He further prepares invalidity and non-infringement opinions, which aid the company in product development.