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CALIFORNIA
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Sarah Guske
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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.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions