Adam R Alper

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Adam Alper is a leading member of the intellectual property litigation group in Kirkland’s Bay Area office specializing in jury trials in high-stakes intellectual property cases. Focusing primarily on competitor versus competitor disputes, Adam represents plaintiffs and defendants in the semiconductor, telecommunications, computer hardware and pharmaceutical industries. Adam regularly litigates high-stakes competitor cases involving concurrent claims of patent, trade secret and copyright violations. These disputes often involve co-pending actions in US District Courts, and before the USPTO PTAB and USITC, that are frequently litigated through the trial and post-trial phases. Since 2018, Adam has secured over $2.5 billion in damages awards and settlements on behalf of his clients in IP litigations. Adam has been recognized as a “Top IP Lawyer” (2016-2023) and a “Top Trade Secrets Lawyer” (2020-2022) by the Daily Journal and he was named a Trials "MVP of the Year" in 2020 and 2021 by Law360.

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The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1998

Stanford University, B.A., Economics, 1994