For over two decades, Rabi Narula has been developing domestic and international intellectual property portfolios for a wide variety of clients. Rabi’s practice includes global 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. Rabi also has extensive experience in Ex Parte Patent Reexamination proceedings, design patents, reissue applications, and appeals before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
An aggressive patent prosecutor, Rabi zealously advocates for his clients’ innovations. He seeks both broad and diverse IP protection for his clients while also understanding that clients need to balance aggressiveness with budgets. Rabi is known for his impressive, encyclopedic knowledge of patent rules and procedures, responsiveness, hard work, and optimism even when faced with difficult challenges. His strategic solutions and absolute commitment to his clients’ needs have created relationships of trust. At his core, Rabi is an engineer, a technology enthusiast, and a “people person” who enjoys interacting with inventors and examiners.
Rabi represents clients in a wide range of technologies including medical devices, semi-conductor fabrication, food science, automobile technologies, heating and cooling systems, high accuracy measurement devices, and robotics. Rabi’s experience also includes representing clients in the office furniture, construction product, and plumbing device spaces.
Within the medical device space, Rabi has worked with emerging and large companies in the aesthetics, cardiovascular, spine, dental, surgical robotics, orthopedics, and prosthetic fields. Rabi has successfully represented large companies, venture capital firms, investors, and emerging companies in investments, acquisitions, and IPOs.
Prior to joining the firm, Rabi worked as a Research Engineer for ABB Power Plant Laboratories in Windsor, Connecticut, where he was responsible for testing and developing advanced coal, oil, and gas burners. Rabi’s experience as an engineer gives him respect for, and a first-hand understanding of, the product development process and the numerous ways in which ideas can evolve throughout the patent prosecution process.
Rabi is based in Orange County, California. He is a member of UC Irvine’s Engineering Leadership Council and has been the Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. He is a frequent speaker on topics such as developments in IP law, IP issues for start-ups, strategic IP development and IP due diligence.
University of California – Los Angeles – School of Law (UCLA), J.D., Graduated as one of the top ten students in his class, Order of the Coif honorary society, American Jurisprudence Bancroft-Whitney Award in Intellectual Property and Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Stanford University, M.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of California – Irvine, B.S., Mechanical Engineering
State Bar of California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Chemical, Industrial & Materials
Building Construction
Building Products & Materials
Food Chemistry
HVAC & Passive Ventilation
Machine Shops
Plumbing
Pool & Spa
Consumer Products & Services
Aesthetics & Personal Care Products
Food & Beverage
Sporting Goods & Recreation
Energy
Clean Technology
Emissions Abatement
Energy Efficient Technologies
Solar Power
Wind Power
Medical Devices & Procedures
Ablation Technology
Aesthetics & Implants
Angioplasty
Annulus & Nucleus Repair
Balloons
Cardiac Assist Device (E.g., LVAD & Heart Pumps)
Cardiovascular
Catheters & Probes
Chordae Tendineae Repair & Replacement
Chronic Total Occlusions
Deep Venous Thrombosis
Dental Devices
Dermatology & Aesthetics
Diagnostics
Drug Eluting & Drug Delivery Devices
Embolic Coils
Embolic Protection & Clot Retrieving
Flow Diverter
Gastrointestinal
Implants
Intra Cranial Hemorrhage
Ischemic Stroke
Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occlusion
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)
Neuromodulation
Neurovascular
Orthopedics
Peripheral Artery Disease
Prosthetics & Orthotics
Pulmonary
Robotics
Spinal Cages
Spinal Fusion
Spinal Posterior Instrumentation
Spinal Stenoses
Spine
Sports Medicine
Stents, Valves, & Delivery Systems
Structural Heart
Surgical Equipment
Tissue Engineering
Trans Septal Crossing
Transcatheter & Surgical Aortic, Mitral & Tricuspid Valve Replacement
Ultrasound
Urology & Incontinence
Valvular Incompetence
Transportation & Vehicles
Aerospace & Space Technology
Air conditioning / Heating systems
Auto Care
Automotive Transportation & Powersports
Brake Systems
Elevators
Engines & Engine Components
Filters (Air, Fuel, Oil)
Fuels & Additives
Personal Motorized Recreation Vehicles (ATVs, Snow Vehicles, Personal Watercraft)
Suspension Components
Tires & Wheels
Tools & Equipment
Transportation Equipment
Design Patents
Due Diligence
Global Portfolio Management
Infringement Risk
IP Strategy
IP Transactions and Agreements
Licensing
Opinions Counseling
Patent Strategy & Prosecution
Patentability
Tech Transactions
U.S. Patent Prosecution
