Louik, Michael

Bob Weiss represents clients in the technology industry, and his experience includes patent, trademark, trade secret, antitrust, and unfair competition cases in the areas of mechanical equipment, electrical instruments, medical devices, biotechnology, and computer circuitry. Bob also supervises the procurement, protection, and enforcement of clients' intellectual property rights throughout the world.

Bob has successfully represented many different clients, including Intermedics (implantable heart devices), Mag Instrument (flashlight litigation), Rapiscan Security Products (baggage scanners), Simpson Race Products (automobile racing helmets), Southern California Gas Company (wrongful inventorship involving earthquake shutoff valve), and Special Devices (air bag initiators). In addition, he has been lead counsel on general business litigation cases, including a highly publicized palimony case and a breach of contract and bad faith claim against risk insurers for an underground fuel tank collapse on behalf of Paramount Pictures.

Bob frequently lectures on intellectual property issues and is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in bar association publications. In 2000, he spoke at the PLI/Patent Litigation Conference on "Markman Practice, Procedure, and Tactics" and in 2001, he was an invited guest speaker at the Stockholm Conference on Counterfeiting and Piracy. Bob is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association.