Mark A. Geier

Mark A. Geier is an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's Del Mar Heights Office.

Areas of Practice

Mr. Geier has experience in handling a wide variety of intellectual property matters, primarily for clients in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, high technology and software industries, including licensing and other transactional matters, patent litigation and appeals, and patent prosecution and strategic counseling. 

Mr. Geier handles technology transactions and licensing matters such as acquisition and protection of intellectual property, technology transfer agreements, patent and software licensing transactions, development and research collaborations, marketing agreements, co-promotion and distribution agreements, and professional services agreements.  Mr. Geier has represented biotechnology, medical device, software, and other high technology companies in his transactional practice.  Representative clients include Broadcom Corporation, MicroIslet Inc., Amgen and Gen-Probe Inc.

Mr. Geier prepares and prosecutes patent applications and provides strategic counseling to clients regarding their intellectual property matters.  His strategic counseling practice has included drafting noninfringement and invalidity opinions, preparing freedom to operate analyses, conducting patent searches and IP due diligence, and drafting oppositions to European patents.  Mr. Geier has drafted and prosecuted patents relating to medical devices and procedures, biotechnology (including in the areas of stem cell research and immunology), software, and business methods.  Mr. Geier has experience with patent prosecution in the United States and internationally.

Mr. Geier also represents clients in litigation matters involving patents and trademarks.  His litigation practice has included patent litigation involving medical devices, chemical processes and compositions, and business methods/processes.  Representative matters include representation of a medical device company in litigation involving trocars, including an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit where he helped obtain a reversal of a noninfringement ruling (Applied Medical Resources Corp. v. U. S. Surgical, 448 F.3d 1324 (Fed. Cir. 2006)), and representation of an advertising/media company asserting patents relating to methods of presenting and displaying advertising.  Mr. Geier has substantial experience in discovery, motion practice, and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Geier also worked in the San Diego office of Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear

Education

• J.D., University of California, Berkeley - Boalt Hall School of Law, 2002, order of the coif, Certificate in Law and Technology, Senior Articles Editor for the Boalt Technology Law Journal
• B.S. & B.A., Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1999, cum laude, lab assistant performing molecular biology experiments at the Department of Biological Sciences at U.C. San Diego and at the Scripps Research Institute

Clerkships

• Mr. Geier served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul R. Michel, the current Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (which hears all appeals of patent litigations in the United States).

Admissions

• Federal district courts in California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Honors

• While at Boalt Hall, received multiple American Jurisprudence Awards, and received a grant from the John M. Olin Foundation for research in Law and Economics.

Memberships

• Member, State Bar of California
• Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law
• Member, San Diego County Bar Association.

Articles

• Multiple Summaries of Federal Circuit Decisions, European Intellectual Property Review, 2003-2004
• Case Note: "United States v. Microsoft," 16 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 297 (2001)