Raja N. Saliba

Raja is a partner in the firm's Washington D.C. office and the Electrical/Mechanical Practice Group Leader.  Raja has over 20 years’ experience in representing domestic and international clients in disputes before federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, the Federal Circuit, and inter partes matters before the USPTO. Raja also regularly engages in patent validity and infringement opinion practice and counseling clients on freedom-to-operate, due diligence, product clearance work, licensing and preparing and prosecuting patent applications. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on intellectual property law and participated in the founding of the PTAB Bar Association where he serves as a member of the PTAB Trials Committee and the PTAB Appeals Committee, and serves on several committees of FICPI. Raja is also co-author of The Essential Case Law Guide to PTAB Trials (2018).

Raja's experience encompasses a broad variety of technologies in the electrical and mechanical fields including fiber optics, agricultural machinery, medical devices, container manufacturing, semiconductors, printers, heating and cooling systems, hydraulic systems, automotive equipment, power generation equipment, sports related technologies, electrical transmission equipment, telecommunications, imaging devices, and business methods.

Prior to joining Sughrue, Raja worked in industry for over nine years as an engineer on the Seawolf-class submarine program and later as project manager in the design and manufacture of low earth orbit and geosynchronous satellites.