Contact • Education • Admissions • Industry Experience • Representative Patent Office Proceedings • Representative Litigations

CONTACT
E-mail:
akumamoto@helixip.com
Telephone:
(650) 517-3101
Education
J.D., University Southern California, 1995
Ph.D., Molecular Biology (NIH Fellowship in Genetics), University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
B.S., Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, magna cum laude, departmental honors, 1981
Admissions
California State Bar
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California
Industry Experience
- Cell Genesys, Inc. – Patent Attorney
- Xenotech, Inc. – Patent Attorney
- Hyseq, Inc. – Director of Intellectual Property
- TargetQuest LLC – Outside General Counsel
Representative Patent Office Proceedings
- Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings 95/001,076
- Patent Inferference No. 105,830
- Ex Partes Reexamination Proceedings 90/010,734
Representative Litigations (represented party in bold)
Trials:
- Amgen, Inc. v. Hoffman-LaRoche (D. Mass. 2007)
- Genentech, Inc. and Tercica, Inc. v. Insmed, Inc., et al. (N.D. Cal. 2006)
- Genzyme Corp. v. Seikagaku Corp., et al. (D. Mass 2012)
Other Litigations:
- Genentech, Inc. v. Amgen, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 2000; Fed. Cir. 2002)
- Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Mayo Foundation (N.D. Cal.)
- Depomed v. Lupin Inc. (N.D. Cal.)