Mr. Kubota is a partner with Morrison & Foerster, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He is a member of the California Bar and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the U. S. District Court for the Central, Northern, and Southern Districts of California.

Mr. Kubota specializes in patent prosecution, client counseling, due diligence, and litigation support for high technology clients. He has represented clients involved in storage area networks, mechanical devices, optical systems, broadband communications, premises telephonic gateways, cellular communications, video signal processing, interactive television, optical switching networks, Internet content delivery systems, scalable parallel processing systems, disk drives, resource provisioning management, medical devices, semiconductor wafer handling, cryptography, and electronic musical instruments.

Mr. Kubota received a B.S in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1997. While in law school, Mr. Kubota obtained significant trial experience from working at the Los Angeles County Alternate Public Defender’s Office and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, where he represented the People of the State of California in 15 preliminary hearings and two jury trials.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Kubota worked at Hughes Aircraft Company in the Space and Communications Group for over 12 years where, as a technical supervisor, he led the design and development of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated circuit), FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), and gate-array-based digital circuits and systems for satellite communications payloads. He also taught computer programming at the University of Southern California.

Articles

• “Eye on the Damages Prizes,” Managing IP, March 2007, co-authored with Brett Alten and Ryan Scoville
• “Public School Usage of Internet Filtering Software: Book Banning Reincarnated?” Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal.

Speaking Engagements

• Moderator, “Storage 2007… Is There Enough Room?” Orange County Technology Action Network, February 2007