Alan G. Laquer

Alan G. Laquer is a partner in our Orange County office.  Mr. Laquer litigates a range of intellectual property matters with a particular focus on patent litigation related to software and telecommunications.  He also has experience with copyright and trade secret litigation as well as joint defense group matters.  He has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants and has resolved cases through summary judgment motions, favorable settlements, and trial.  Mr. Laquer has additional trial experience from working in the Orange County District Attorney’s Office in the Trial Attorney Partnership program, where he successfully prosecuted criminal matters.  Mr. Laquer is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has experience in post-grant patent proceedings.

Before attending law school, Mr. Laquer worked for three years as a software engineer at Unisys.  There, he developed security and performance-optimizing applications for enterprise servers and was a member of the company’s open source software strategy team.

Mr. Laquer was a summer associate with the firm in 2007, joined the firm in 2008, and became a partner in 2014.