Louis represents clients in a variety of areas, including litigation, counseling, opinions, due diligence, licensing and transactions, prosecution, patent IPRs, PGRs, reissue and reexamination; his experience includes counseling and litigating commercial business matters, patent, SSO, SEP/FRAND, trademark, anti-counterfeiting and copyright matters, as well as licenses, unfair competition, and trade secret matters.

     Louis has extensive experience assisting clients in communications, telecommunications, digital television, stock and option exchanges, technology, medical, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, security, gaming, insurance, packaging, advanced materials, software and software systems, health care, power generation, luxury goods, food and diet, entertainment, and fashion industries. Additionally, Louis has led patent portfolio development and monetization standards, licensing and litigation matters resulting in hundred of millions of dollars for his clients.

     Louis has been honored on a number of occasions for his contributions to the legal profession. He has been named Best Lawyer in Intellectual Property every year since 1999, and Best Lawyer in the Bay Area in Intellectual Property from 2003 to 2005. He is listed in Chambers as Leading Lawyer in IP, was named a Super Lawyer in both Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, and is listed in the top 250 worldwide lawyers in IAM’s leading Intellectual Property licensing and trademark attorney listings. In 2011, he was elected a member of The Cosmos Club.

    Louis received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Drexel University. He earned his J.D. from Temple University Beasly School of Law. He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.