For over 20 years, Josue Villalta has helped clients protect their inventions in the U.S. and internationally. Josue’s practice includes global utility and design patent portfolio development, IP audits, IP transfer agreements, due diligence associated with financings and acquisitions, and competitive landscape analysis including legal opinions, recommendations for design-arounds and pre-litigation strategy.
Josue represents clients in a wide range of technologies, including Cleantech, medical devices, consumer electronics and automotive. In the Cleantech space, Josue has experience with, among others, photovoltaic solar energy, concentrated solar power, nuclear energy and gravity-based energy storage technologies. In medical devices, Josue has experience with orthopedic, ophthalmic, surgical robotic, vascular, and prosthetic technologies.
Before joining the firm, Josue was a senior mechanical engineer with General Electric’s Power Generation division, where he focused on heat transfer and fluid dynamics analyses of commercial nuclear power plants under transient operating conditions.
Josue joined the firm in 2002 and became a partner in 2008.
University of California – Hastings – School of Law, J.D., Managing Editor – Communications & Entertainment Law Journal (2001-2002)
Stanford University, M.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB), B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Dean’s Honor List
State Bar of California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Chemical, Industrial & Materials
Automation & Robotics
Building Construction
Building Products & Materials
Construction & Home Improvement
HVAC & Passive Ventilation
Instrumentation
Oil & Gas
Semiconductors
Windows
Consumer Products & Services
Food & Beverage
Sporting Goods & Recreation
Electrical, Semiconductor & Computer Technology
Electronics & Semiconductors
Energy
Clean Technology
Energy Conservation
Energy Efficient Technologies
Green Building & Construction
Solar Power
Waste Mitigation & Treatment
Fashion & Beauty
Clothing
Footwear
Medical Devices & Procedures
Aesthetics & Implants
Cardiovascular
Minimally Invasive & Endoscopic Procedures
Orthopedics
Prosthetics & Orthotics
Robotics
Spine
Transportation & Vehicles
Air Conditioning / Heating Systems
Automotive Transportation & Powersports
Brake Systems
Passenger Transportation
Tires & Wheels
Design Patents
Due Diligence
Global Portfolio Management
IP Strategy
IP Transactions, Agreements & Venture Capital
Patent Strategy & Prosecution
Patentability
U.S. Patent Prosecution
Selected as a winner of Profiles In Leadership Journal’s 2025 “Latino & Hispanic Leadership Awards”
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
- Co-chair, 14th Annual Washington in the West Conference, January 2011
