Ali-Reza Boloori, Ph.D.

Partner Intellectual Property

Los Angeles – Century City +1 213 680 8127

Ali-Reza Boloori, Ph.D.

Overview

Ali is a partner in Kirkland’s Intellectual Property Group, focusing on litigation and trials involving patent, trade secret, and unfair competition claims. Ali also advises clients on intellectual property strategy, including offensive and defensive pre-litigation strategies. He has substantial experience working on and leading litigation teams in complex matters. Many of Ali’s matters involve parallel proceedings in foreign jurisdictions in Asia and Europe, and he has substantial experience working and coordinating with counsel in foreign jurisdictions. Ali has substantial experience in all phases of litigation, including case inception, managing discovery teams, briefing and arguing motions, working with expert witnesses, deposing and defending witnesses, preparing fact and expert witnesses for trial, and examining witnesses. Ali’s practice spans a wide range of technologies, including wireless communications, signal processing, electronics, robotics, software, and medical devices.

Ali also maintains an active pro bono practice, including serving as Special City Prosecutor for the City of Redondo Beach, where he has successfully first chaired and won misdemeanor jury trials, won pre- and post-trial motions, and has successfully argued appeals from trial court judgments.

AutoStore AS et al. v. Ocado Group et al.

  • Representing AutoStore in patent infringement litigation against Ocado involving Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems deployed in warehouse. Litigation includes parallel proceedings in the U.S. International Trade Commission, Patent and Trial Appeal Board, and U.S. District Court. Significant experience working with litigation counsel in parallel proceeding in the United Kingdom.

Staton Techiya, LLC et al. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al.

  • Representing Samsung in a 14-patent infringement suit involving signal processing in earphones.

Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd.

  • Representing Motorola in patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation litigation against Hytera regarding two-way radio technology. Lawsuits include patent infringement litigation in the U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. District Court, and Patent and Trial Appeal Board. Significant experience working with foreign counsel in parallel proceedings in Germany, China, and Australia.

Medtronic Minimed, Inc. v. Animas Corp.

  • Represented plaintiff Medtronic Minimed in a multi-patent infringement litigation involving diabetes pumps in the Central District of California.

Finjan, Inc. v. McAfee, Inc.

  • Represented McAfee in patent litigation brought by Finjan against McAfee, Symantec, Sophos and Websense.

Medtronic v. NuVasive

  • Trial team member in jury trial resulting in $101.2 million verdict for client Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. (a Medtronic entity) in the first phase of a patent infringement dispute with NuVasive, Inc. in the Southern District of California.

Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2009

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bio-Engineering, Harvard University, 2007

Co-Founder, BioSensics LLC

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Legal

Boloori A, Corporate Diversity Jurisdiction Untangled: The Supreme Court's Decision In Hertz Corp. v. Friend, Business Torts & RICO News (2010), 6 (2): 13–15.

Scientific Peer-Reviewed (Representative)

Boloori A, Jenks RA, Desbordes G, and Stanley GB, Encoding and Decoding Cortical Representations of Tactile Features in the Vibrissa System, The Journal of Neuroscience (2010), 30 (30): 9990–10005.

Jenks RA, Vaziri A, Boloori A, and Stanley GB, Self-motion and the Shaping of Sensory Signals, Journal of Neurophysiology (2010), 103: 2195–2207.

Boloori A, and Stanley GB, The Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Response Integration in the Somatosensory Cortex of the Vibrissa System, The Journal of Neuroscience (2010), 26 (14): 3767–3782.

Recognition

Kirkland & Ellis Pro Bono Service Award, 2011, 2014

Wiley W. Manuel Certificate for Pro Bono Legal Services, The State Bar of California, 2012

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2010California
  • 2013Massachusetts

Courts

  • Supreme Court of California
  • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
  • United States District Court for the District of Colorado
  • United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Education

  • University of Michigan Law SchoolJ.D.2010
  • Harvard UniversityPh.D., Engineering Sciences2007
  • Harvard UniversityS.M., Engineering Sciences2001
  • University of California, BerkeleyB.S., Mechanical & Nuclear Engineeringwith Honors2000