Christopher A. Suarez is a member of Steptoe’s Intellectual Property practice and a co-head of Steptoe’s interdisciplinary AI, Data, and Digital working group. He is an outside-the-box thinker with a passion for helping clients understand and manage risks in high-technology, particularly technologies in the computer software, hardware, and semiconductor domains. As an intellectual property litigator, he focuses his practice on patent, copyright, and trade secret trials and appeals before every level of the US court system, including federal district courts, US courts of appeals, the US Supreme Court, the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and other administrative tribunals. Chris’s experience in district court litigation spans all phases of litigation, including overseeing fact discovery; taking and defending fact and expert depositions; arguing dispositive motions, claim construction, and appeals; and examining witnesses at trial. Chris’s experience at the PTAB includes cross-examining witnesses and successfully arguing on behalf of his client at the oral hearing.
