Immanuel Elijah is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group.

Immanuel’s practice focuses on intellectual property matters involving cutting-edge issues in artificial intelligence, electronics, and software. His experience includes complex patent, trade secret, appellate, antitrust, and contract issues before federal courts and the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Immanuel has contributed to legal scholarship through his authorship in the ITC Trial Lawyers Association’s 337 Reporter: 2022 Paul J. Luckern Summer Associate Edition and the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Quarterly Journal. He is also committed to serving his community through his pro bono work on landlord-tenant housing matters.

Before joining Morrison Foerster as an associate, Immanuel served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Honorable Ryan T. Holte of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the Honorable Clark S. Cheney of the U.S. International Trade Commission. He also worked as a student attorney at the George Washington University Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, where he focused on appeals, IP litigation, and patent prosecution.

Immanuel earned his J.D. with highest honors from the George Washington University Law School. He was selected for membership to the Order of the Coif, recognized as a George Washington Scholar, and awarded the Lawrence and Carol Horn IP Law Scholarship. Immanuel held the roles of managing editor of The George Washington Law Review, research assistant to John M. Whealan, Associate Dean of IP Law at GW, and Hard IP Chair of the Student Intellectual Property Law Association. He won first place in the Rothwell Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition and was awarded Best Brief and the Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck Award. Immanuel was also awarded the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award and GW Law Dean’s Pro Bono Gold Certificate in recognition of his over 320 hours of volunteer legal work.

Immanuel received his B.S. magna cum laude in mechanical engineering, with honors, from the University of Central Florida, where he contributed as an inventor on a patented medical device and held the role of project manager on a drone-racing project.