Christopher Bolten

Practice Areas

Chris Bolten has extensive experience in Global Intellectual Property (IP) strategy for companies and investment firms in the areas of Technology, MedTech and Digital Health.

He is a Partner in the firm’s San Diego, California office and serves as the Deputy Practice Group Leader for the IP department. Chris is also on the global leadership teams for the Life Sciences and Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) sectors. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and is admitted in District Courts in California, Texas and Colorado, as well as the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Representative examples of work for venture capital and investment firms include:

• Sofinnova Partners (Paris, France) in the investment of ShockWave Medical on technology for treating heavily calcified arteries for Peripheral and Coronary Artery Disease (PAD and CAD)

• Endeavour Vision (Geneva, Switzerland) in the investment of Vertiflex (subsequently acquired by Boston Scientific) on implants for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS)

• Gyrus Capital (Geneva, Switzerland) in the purchase of the heart valve business from LivaNova

Representative examples of IP portfolio strategy and management work include:

• Fortune 500 company involved in content delivery networks (CDN), communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice and managed services

• ReCor Medical (acquired by Otsuka) on renal denervation for the treatment of hypertension

• Cardiologs (acquired by Philips) on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) software for analyzing electrocardiogram (ECG) signals from a patient’s heart

Representative examples of IP litigation include:

• California patent litigation involving anti-malware and anti-virus computer security software

• International Trade Commission (ITC) patent litigation on dental implants

• Texas patent litigation on standard essential patents (SEPs) for optical transport networks (OTN)

• California patent and contract litigation involving pulse oximetry

• Colorado patent litigation on SEPs for long term evolution (LTE) cellular technology

• California patent ligation on SEPs for 802.11 (WiFi) and code-division multiple access (CDMA)

• Delaware patent litigation on graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for smartphones

• California patent litigation involving specialized automotive parts for racing

• California trade secret and patent litigation on tracking automotive driving activities

Chris advises clients in many fields, including medical devices such as ultrasound and X-ray imagers, neurostimulation systems, robotics, structural heart implants, stents, shunts, prosthetic heart valves, implantable mechanical devices, ablation devices, wound dressings, diagnostics and medicine dispensers; microfluidics; telecommunications such as cellular, networking and internet technologies; and software including machine learning and AI. Chris’s practice also includes the preparation of non-infringement, invalidity, patentability and freedom-to-operate (FTO) opinions. He is experienced in representing a range of clients from prolific inventors and startup companies to venture firms and international corporations.