Judge Gonzalez (Ret.) has more than 28 years of judicial experience handling intellectual property disputes. As a U.S. Magistrate judge for six years, she presided over
Markman claim construction hearings. While on the U.S. District Court bench in the Southern District of California, she oversaw matters involving patent, trademark, and copyright issues in a wide variety of industries, including biotechnology, computing, medical, electronics, telecommunications, and clothing. Additionally, Judge Gonzalez participated in a congressionally funded pilot program aimed at giving federal judges in select districts intensive experience handling patent claims. She was also involved in developing new patent rules for the Southern District of California.
Representative Matters
- Patent
- Company’s suit for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity. Defendants (patentees) filed counterclaim for infringement regarding patents which involved method of treating non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Infringement action brought against competitor by owner of patents related to hand-held mobile devices
- Infringement claim brought against competitor by patent holder for broadband ceramic capacitor
- Patent holder of “Selective Video Playing System” for managing objectionable content in video programs sued manufacturers and suppliers of DVD players for infringement
- Patent infringement action between competing biotechnology businesses
- Patentee’s suit for infringement of patent related to systems and methods for increasing performance of computer system
- Trademark and Copyright
- Copyright infringement action brought by maker of sculpted figurines against defendant’s distribution of “knock-off” products
- Trademark infringement action under Lanham Act, 15 USC §§ 1114 and 1125(a), alleging that defendant’s registration for deck shoe with certain pattern did not preclude plaintiff from using same decorative pattern
