Lucas Silva, Esq.
Foley & Lardner LLP https://www.foley.com/en/people/s/silva-lucas-i
About The Lecturer
Lucas I. Silva is a partner and intellectual property lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he focuses his practice on patent litigation, counseling, and licensing. Lucas also handles matters involving claims of trademark and copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and unfair competition. Lucas has extensive experience litigating complex intellectual property infringement cases in district courts throughout the country as well as before the International Trade Commission. He has also handled appeals before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and he represents clients in inter partes review and other post-grant proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Lucas’ patent litigation experience includes handling all aspects of discovery and pre-trial preparation and going to trial in a wide range of cases involving technologies such as telecommunications, semiconductor packaging, medical devices, business intelligence software, data backup, magnetic braking, sound reproduction systems, online advertising, solar panel assemblies, and 3D printing. Lucas has also tried cases involving intellectual property licenses as well as patent infringement cases involving standard essential patents. In addition to his litigation practice, Lucas is involved in Boston-area organizations that assist emerging companies and promote technology in the fields of medical devices, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and Internet of things (IoT). He is a member of the firm’s IP Litigation Practice Group and the Health Care Industry Team.
Prior to joining Foley, Lucas was an associate in the intellectual property litigation practice group of a Boston-area boutique intellectual property firm and an intern for the Honorable F. Dennis Saylor IV of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Practice Area(s)
Intellectual Property
Trial
Publications
Applicant Admitted Prior Art Cannot Be a “Basis For” an IPR Challenge
03 FEBRUARY 2022 PTAB TRIAL INSIGHTS
Federal Circuit Rules That Supreme Court Decision in TC Heartland Was a Change of Law
20 NOVEMBER 2017 LEGAL NEWS: IP LITIGATION
The Decision To Grant Rehearing En Banc In Apple v. Samsung
25 OCTOBER 2016 IP LITIGATION CURRENT
Two Recent Decisions Put Alice "Step One" on Center Stage at The Federal Circuit
01 JUNE 2016 IP LITIGATION CURRENT
Education
Suffolk University Law School, J.D. cum laude
Bates College, B.S. in biology and economics.
