Socrates Boutsikaris’ practice focuses on high-stakes patent litigation in district court, before the International Trade Commission, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
He has represented companies in patent and intellectual property matters spanning a variety of complex technologies, including medical devices, video streaming, computer networking, wireless communication, oil and gas, semiconductors, and more.
Socrates’ litigation experience spans all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation strategy, managing and drafting fact and expert discovery, claim construction, taking and defending fact and expert depositions, drafting case-dispositive and evidentiary motions, pre-trial, and trial. He also has experience representing clients in parallel post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he has delivered oral argument, secured the invalidation of multiple patents, and successfully defeated several petitions.
Socrates joined the firm in 2026 from another major international firm. Prior to his litigation career, Socrates worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner in the area of medical and surgical devices.