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K.T. Cherian
525 Market Street
Suite 3600
San Francisco, CA 94105-2708
+1 415.848.4930
+1 415.848.4999 (Fax)
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Partner
K.T. (Sunny) Cherian is a Partner in the San Francisco office. He handles all areas of intellectual property litigation. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cherian was a program manager with the US Department of Energy, specializing in renewable energy conversion. He served as the project manager to the world’s then-largest solar electric plant, a 10MWe Solar Central receiver power plant, located near Barstow, California. Mr. Cherian also was a consultant to Sandia National Laboratories and the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
Mr. Cherian has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer by the Daily Journal since it's inception.
Representative Highlights
- MOSAID v. Micron, Powerchip, et al. Representation of MOSAID in this multiple patent case involving memory and CMOS imaging chip technology. The case proceeded in both the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California and was settled favorably to MOSAID with all parties taking a license to the patents-in-suit after the Markman hearing but before a Markman decision was issued.
- Micron Semiconductor, Inc. v. Hyundai, et al. Represented a respondent in a patent infringement action involving anisotropic plasma etching of semiconductors. The trial spanned four weeks, during which officials from many Silicon Valley companies appeared to testify in Hyundai's case-in-chief. The matter was settled prior to a written decision from the administrative law judge.
- (1) ASM America, Inc., and (2) ASM International N.V., Plaintiffs v. (1) Applied Materials, Inc., Defendant.
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Admissions
Education
- University of California, Davis School of Law (JD, 1987)
- George Washington University (MS, Electrical Engineering, 1979)
- University of Mysore (BS, Electrical Engineering, 1976)
- Cambridge University (ISC, 1969)
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