Overview
For over 20 years, Josué Villalta has helped clients protect their inventions in the U.S. and internationally. Josué’s practice includes global utility and design patent portfolio development, IP audits, IP transfer agreements, due diligence associated with financings and acquisitions, and competitive landscape analysis including legal opinions, recommendations for design-arounds and pre-litigation strategy.
Josué represents clients in a wide range of technologies, including Cleantech, medical devices, consumer electronics and automotive. In the Cleantech space, Josué has experience with, among others, photovoltaic solar energy, concentrated solar power, nuclear energy and gravity-based energy storage technologies. In medical devices, Josué has experience with orthopedic, ophthalmic, surgical robotic, vascular, and prosthetic technologies.
Before joining the firm, Josué was a senior mechanical engineer with General Electric’s Power Generation division, where he focused on heat transfer and fluid dynamics analyses of commercial nuclear power plants under transient operating conditions.
Josué joined the firm in 2002 and became a partner in 2008.
Education
- University of California - Hastings - School of Law (J.D., 2002), Managing Editor - Communications & Entertainment Law Journal (2001-2002)
- Stanford University (M.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1991)
- University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB) (B.S. Mechanical Engineering, 1990), Dean's Honor List
Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
- Co-chair, 14th Annual Washington in the West Conference, January 2011
News & Insights
Articles
The Truth About GE’s Latest Wind Tech Patent Lawsuit, Renewable Energy World, October 2017
Could Patent Expirations Be a Chink in Intuitive Surgical’s Armor?, Medical Device And Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI), August 2016
Speeches & Seminars
Panelist, Information Disclosure Statements and the Duty of Disclosure, LAIPLA Washington in the West Conference, January 26, 2017
Prometheus Roared: Natural Laws and Unnatural Patents, a review of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Mayo v. Prometheus decision and Discussion on Patent Prosecution Strategies in light of the Decision, Beverly Hills Bar Association, August 2012
IP Strategies for Managing the Dynamics of Risk, Innovation and Globalization, 12th SoCal Bio Investor & Partnership Conference, November 2010
Intellectual Property Issues Faced by Start-up Companies, 11th SoCal Bio Investor & Partnership Conference, September 2009