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Josue A. Villalta

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
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