Blank Rome partner bolsters IP practice in Washington
Firm adds to its IP Litigation practice group with patent trial attorney Paul Zeineddin.
Blank Rome has appointed Paul Zeineddin as partner and co-chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group in Washington, DC.
The move follows Hussein Akhavannik’s appointment to the IP team as a partner in July.
A trial attorney with more than 20 years’ experience, Zeineddin focuses his practice on patent litigation as well as the connection between IP and antitrust issues.
Zeieddin, who joins from Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, has handled more than 60 patent infringement disputes before the US District Courts and the US International Trade Commission.
With clients in the telecommunications, consumer electronic, and software industries, he brings experience in handling significant patent litigations involving various communications, semiconductor, and consumer electronics technologies, along with their related standard-essential patents (SEPs) and fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) commitments.
He has represented clients before the United Nations and global standard-setting organisations on matters related to SEPs and FRAND terms. He has also served as the lead negotiator in global licensing deals that involve SEPs and patent pool formations.
Before beginning his law career, Zeineddin was a senior telecommunications engineer who worked at British Telecom (now BT) and MITRE Corporation. He also previously served as senior IP counsel at Samsung Electronics.
Commenting on the move, Zeineddin said: “I am impressed by Blank Rome’s national platform and team of talented IP trial attorneys, notably with regard to their depth of technical knowledge and the diversity of their trial practice.
“The firm is well established in critical jurisdictions for patent litigation, which is particularly important for me as I grow my practice and help expand Blank Rome’s IP Litigation group.”
Domingo Manuel Llagostera, partner and co-chair of the firm’s IP group, said: “Paul’s engineering background and deep technical knowledge, combined with his acumen as a lead trial lawyer, makes him a perfect fit to help expand our firm’s national IP Litigation practice and trial capabilities.
“I look forward to collaborating with Paul as we lead the practice together and continue to enhance Blank Rome’s service offerings and stellar bench of IP litigators.”
Zeineddin gained his JD from The George Washington University Law School and his MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Science & Technology Law Section as well as several international standard-setting organisations.
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