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Baker Botts L.L.P.
101 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 3070
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94111
CALIFORNIA
United States

Position

Partner

Department Chair – Intellectual Property (Palo Alto & San Francisco)

Career

Sarah Guske is a partner and the Department Chair of the San Francisco and Palo Alto Intellectual Property Groups. Sarah is a trial lawyer and has significant experience litigating software and electronics patent litigation cases in district court and at the Federal Circuit and the PTAB, including significant stand-up experience in each forum. Sarah previously served at Co-Chair of the firm’s PTAB Trials Group.

Sarah has litigated cases in district courts across the country. Sarah’s practice focuses on high-stakes, competitor litigation. Sarah is a frequent speaker on trial strategy issues, including defending against willfulness allegations and using IPRs strategically in district court cases.

Sarah has served as an Adjunct Professor teaching patent law and litigation at the University of California Hastings, University of Colorado, and University of Denver.

Memberships

State Bar of California

State Bar of Colorado

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

United States District Court for the Northern, Southern and Central Districts of California

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Education

J.D., University of California Davis School of Law 2004

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington State University 2001
summa cum laude

B.A., Physics, Whitworth University 2001
summa cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)

Baker Botts L.L.P. has a full-service intellectual property litigation team with expertise litigating patent infringement disputes both at trial and appellate level for major tech clients such as Abbott, AT&T and Cisco. The IP litigation group is co-chaired by Douglas Kubehl in Dallas and Roger Fulghum in Houston as well as New York-based lawyer Jennifer Tempesta, who focuses on patent litigation in the district courts and at the International Trade Commission, and Dallas partner Christa Brown-Sanford, who focuses on licensing and patent prosecution in the energy and tech spaces. Robert Maier is knowledgeable in all types of IP litigation. The group also includes Sarah Guske, who has particular expertise in software and electronics patent litigation and is praised by clients as having ‘a unique ability to chart a course from the early stages all the way to trial‘, and patent litigator Katharine Burke in Washington DC.