Professional & Community Activities
- American Bar Association, Member
- American Intellectual Property Law Association, Member
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- Federal Circuit Bar Association, Member
- San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association, Member
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Mr. Cook has been recognized by his peers for litigation excellence. He received a 2015 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award for intellectual property based on achievement in Kilopass Technology, Inc. v. Sidense Corp. patent litigation (see Client Milestones, below). He has been rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell since 1978.* He was co-leader of the Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP litigation practice, and a member of its Diversity Committee.
Mr. Cook's track record includes winning nearly all (16 of 19) of his appellate decisions at the Federal Circuit.**
His cases have involved semiconductor devices and processes, microprocessors, computers, computer memory including DRAMs, flash memory, and antifuse; integrated circuits, power transistors, IGBTs, power MOSFETs, Java accelerators, disk drives and computer graphics; lasers; digital and analog electrical circuitry, monoclonal antibodies, highway construction equipment, lighting products, aerospace, agricultural products, and telecommunications.
He was Adjunct Professor for Intellectual Property/Antitrust at University of San Francisco Law School from 2004 to 2016.
*AV Preeminent® is a registered certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies.
**Based on Westlaw search in Federal Circuit database for AT (Roger/4 Cook). Past performance is no guarantee of future success.
