Gary D. Lueck
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
University of Houston, Juris Doctor, 1999
Northwestern University, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1996
Named as 2008 Southern California Rising Star for work in intellectual property (published annually in Southern California Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars Edition of Los Angeles Magazine)
Carothers Prize for Intellectual Property, University of Houston
Giles S. Rich Moot Court Competition - semi-finalist, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; best appellant brief in Southern Region
Selected to attend the International Intellectual Property Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland and Munich, Germany
Kappa Theta Epsilon and Dean's List honors, Northwestern University
Admitted to California State Bar
Registered Patent Attorney, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Admitted to U.S. District Courts (Central District of California and Connecticut)
Member of the Orange County Patent Law Association
BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE
Gary Lueck is a registered patent attorney who focuses on U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, patent infringement and validity studies and opinions, due diligence and general counseling. Mr. Lueck's work involves a variety of technologies including computer related arts, optics, lasers, semiconductor fabrication, electronic design automation, MEMS, databases, surgical and medical devices involving robotic controls, cardiac surgery, oncology and ablation, cytological imaging and diagnostic systems, space-related systems, food processing and other mechanical, electrical, and software technologies. Mr. Lueck has also been involved in various litigation matters including Thomson SA v. BenQ (represented BenQ in ITC action involving LCD TVs and DVD players); CEA v. ViewSonic et al. and LG Philips v. ViewSonic et al. (represented ViewSonic in patent infringement cases in U.S. District Court, District of Delaware, involving LCDs / optics); Beekley Corp. v. The St. John Companies, Inc. (represented The St. John Companies, Inc. in a patent infringement case in U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, involving skin markers for mammography) and Harris Corp. v. Independent Technologies, Inc. (represented Independent Technologies, Inc. in a patent infringement case in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, involving telephone test equipment; jury decision in favor of Independent Technologies, Inc.).
Prior to joining Vista, Mr. Lueck was counsel at Bingham McCutchen LLP (2003-2006) in Los Angeles and an associate at Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP (1999-2003) in Pasadena (following the merger with Pretty & Schroeder, PC in Los Angeles in 2001). Before graduation from law school, he worked at Containerless Research, Inc. in Evanston, Illinois, where he was responsible for business, technical and patent research for investment proposals and technology commercialization, and at Zebra Technologies, Corp. in Vernon Hills, Illinois, where he designed and tested electronic components for bar-code printers.
PUBLICATIONS
Contributor, "Patents, California Business Litigation" (Chapter 8), California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), December 2002
Contributor, "Effective Preparation of Patent-related Exculpatory Legal Opinions," Practising Law Institute, Patent Litigation, 2004 and AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 2001