Kirupa Pushparaj is an associate in the firm's Patent Prosecution Group. His practice focuses on preparing and prosecuting U.S and foreign applications with an emphasis in semiconductor, electrical, computer, communications, signal processing, internet, and consumer electronics technologies. Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Kirupa was a senior design engineer at Intel Corporation, where he worked in the areas of semiconductor process technology, VLSI circuit design, and product development. Prior to Intel, he also worked as a software engineer for Siemens Communications Ltd. in Bangalore, India, where his responsibilities included software automation of telecommunication networks.