Matt Hawkinson

mhawkinson@hycounsel.com | (213) 634-0369

Matt Hawkinson is a partner of Hawkinson Yang LLP. 

Matt advises clients in a wide range of matters, including legal risk assessment, freedom to operate analyses, standards compliance, and IP asset management from capture to valuation, assertion, and defense.

Matt has led and managed large teams in highly complex legal disputes – matters involving multiple concurrent lawsuits and associated administrative proceedings, with damages claims ranging from the hundreds of millions to the multiple billions of dollars.

Matt has advised some of the largest technology companies with regard to IP harvesting/capture best practices and portfolio management, analyzing the strength of portfolios both offensively (potential assertions) and defensively (risk management and freedom to operate analyses), compliance with the IP policies of standard setting organizations and the intersection of portfolio building with F/RAND licensing and disclosure obligations, and IP valuations in the context of licensing and other commercial transactions.

Matt has represented and advised clients in connection with international arbitrations, foreign litigations (both Europe and Asia), Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission, and proceedings before the PTAB/USPTO.

Matt's clients have included established companies such as Oracle, Intel, HP, Samsung, Huawei, MediaTek, and Altera, as well as numerous startups, entrepreneurs, and creative individuals.

Technology Areas

Matt has worked on matters involving a wide array of technologies, including:

  • mobile communications

  • networking – e.g., 802.11, Bluetooth

  • semiconductors – e.g., microprocessors, FPGAs, ASICs

  • nonvolatile memory

  • cloud and web services

  • databases and data warehouses

  • data compression and streaming

  • e-commerce software

  • satellite communications

  • set-top boxes

  • content delivery networks

  • medical devices

  • biologics and other pharmaceuticals

Litigation Experience

Representative litigation matters Matt has worked on in his career include:

District Court Matters

Realtime Data LLC d/b/a IXO v. Actian Corp. (E.D. Tex.) - Matt represented Oracle and HP in a series of patent infringement litigations involving data compression technologies.

The California Institute of Technology v. Hughes Communications, Inc. (C.D. Cal.) - Matt represented Hughes, DISH, and EchoStar in a series of patent infringement litigations involving the DVB-S2 satellite communications standard.  

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. v. Amtran Technology Co. (W.D. Tex.) - Matt represented Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer MediaTek in a patent infringement litigation involving semiconductor technologies.  

Litigation adverse to GPNE Corp. (N.D. Cal.) - Matt represented a major technology company in a patent infringement litigation related to mobile communications technologies.

Motorola v. Lemko (N.D. Ill.) - Matt represented Chinese cellular technology company Huawei in two related trade secret misappropriation litigations.

Systems America, Inc. v Rockwell Software, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) - Matt represented Systems America in a breach of contract and software copyright infringement litigation.

ITC Investigations

In the Matter of Certain Laser-Driven Light Sources, Subsystems Containing Laser-Driven Light Sources, and Products Containing Same (ITC 337-TA-983) - Matt represented ASML and Qioptiq Photonics in an investigation and related district court matters brought by Energetiq Technology involving photolithography and other semiconductor manufacturing technologies.

In the Matter of Certain Electronic Devices, Including Wireless Communication Devices, Computers, Tablet Computers, Digital Media Players, and Cameras (ITC 337-TA-952) - Matt represented a major technology company in an investigation and related district court matters brought by Ericsson involving 2G and 3G wireless communications technologies.

In the Matter of Certain MLC Flash Memory Devices and Products Containing Same (ITC 337-TA-683) - Matt represented Samsung in an investigation and related district court matters brought by BTG involving nonvolatile memory technologies.

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Education

Columbia Law School, J.D., 2006

  • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

  • Recipient of the Young B. Smith Prize

Stanford Law School - Visiting Scholar 2005-2006

University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1998, Molecular and Cell Biology, Concentration in Neurobiology

Bar Admissions

California

Publications

Monitoring Bioluminescent Staphylococus Aureus Infections; Infection and Immunity, June 2000, p. 3594-3600, Vol. 68, No. 6; Kevin P. Francis, et al.

Visualizing Pneumococcal Infections in the Lungs of Live Mice; Infection and Immunity, May 2001, p. 3350-3358, Vol. 69, No. 5; Kevin P. Francis, et al.

Prior Affiliations

Heller Ehrman LLP

Covington and Burling LLP

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP