Stuart Lubitz has more than 40 years of patent and legal experience in advanced technologies, with an emphasis in the semiconductor, computer, material science and telecommunications industries.

His clients include a long list of blue chip global companies and world's fastest growing startup technology companies. Among them have been Kyocera, Sharp, Seiko Epson, Toshiba, Olympus, Ricoh, Hitachi, Panasonic, Sanyo, Glory, Minolta, Casio, Murata Machinery, Murata Manufacturing, Ishida Scales, Dainippon Screen, and Citizen Watch, as well as GE, Honeywell, Fairchild Semiconductor, Sperry Rand, Western Digital, Emulex, Ampex, Measurex, Dataproducts, Western Offshore, Hydranautics, Cyberdyne, MicroMask, Intersil, AVX, Intel, DEP and Sebastian International.

Before joining DLA Piper, Mr. Lubitz was a director of the IP group at Hogan Lovells. Prior to that, he was a name partner, chairman and president of Spensley Horn Jubas & Lubitz, a leading Los Angeles intellectual property law firm. Mr. Lubitz was also previously employed by Loeb & Loeb as chair of the IP Group and a member of the firm executive committee, and by IBM, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Ford Motor Company and Ampex Corporation, where he was involved in a variety of technical, patent and legal matters including manufacturing engineering, patent application prosecution, licensing programs, infringement and validity opinions, litigation, trademark and copyright matters and related antitrust issues.

Mr. Lubitz was the first Westerner to be a director of a large Japanese public company, the only Westerner to serve on the advisory board of the Inamori Foundation (one of the largest Japanese charitable foundations) and one of the few patent attorneys to sit on the board of a New York Stock Exchange company. He has served as a director of more than five large companies.

Mr. Lubitz was the first adjunct professor of patent law at Loyola Law School, serving for more than 12 years. He is one of the few US patent attorneys to lecture on patent matters before Keidanren, one of the most powerful economic organizations in Japan. He has regularly lectured in the United States and overseas.

Mr. Lubitz has been repeatedly named a Southern California Super Lawyer. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been rated AV for 30 years by Martindale-Hubbell, its highest available rating.

Representative Experience

Mr. Lubitz has been lead litigator and negotiator for US and Japanese entities in high-tech and patent litigation, international licensing and joint ventures.

Representative cases include:

• Cummins-Allison Corp. v. Glory Ltd, et al., CV 02: C 7008 (ND Ill. 2003)
• Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. v. Amkor Technology, Inc. (USA), Case No. 13 191/JNK (Int’l Ct. of Arbitration, Int’l Chamber of Commerce (2007)
• Honeywell International, Inc., et al. v. Citizen Watch, et al., C.A. 04-1338-KAJ (Dist. Delaware)
• Ishida v. Taylor, 1999 WL 1021569 (Fed. Cir.), (N.D. California, 1997)
• 3D Systems v. Aarotech Laboratories, Inc., Aaroflex, Inc., and Albert C. Young, 160 F.3d 1373
• Morrison Law Firm v. Clarion Co., Ltd., et al., 158 F.R.D. 285 (S.D. N.Y. Nov. 1994)
• Barmag v. Murata Machinery, Ltd., 559 F.Supp. 491 (W.D. NC 1983), aff’d 731 F.2d 831 (Fed. Cir. 1984)
• Kyocera International, Inc. adv. Kennecott Corporation, 835 F.2d 1419 (Fed. Cir. 1987)
• Safe Flight Instrument Corp. v. McDonnell-Douglas Corp. & Sperry Rand Corp., 169 USPQ 328 (C.D. Cal. 1971), aff’d 482 F.2d 1086 (9th Cir.), 414 U.S. 1172 (1973)
• K-S-H Plastics, Inc. v. Carolite, Inc., 408 F.2d 54 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 396 U.S. 825 (1969)
• San Marino Electric Corp. v. George J. Meyer Mfg. Co., 155 USPQ 617 (C.D. Cal. 1967), aff’d 422 F.2d 1285 (9th Cir. 1970)

Mr. Lubitz has been lead lawyer and negotiator in the first merger of a US public company and a Japanese public company employing the stock of the Japanese company.

He has served as patent counselor for major leading-edge technology companies and as a complex matter arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and a high-tech arbitrator for the High-Tech Resolution Panel.