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Evan Budaj

Evan is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on intellectual property disputes and other technology-centric business litigation, including both enforcing intellectual property rights and defending against infringement claims. A graduate of Harvard Law School and holding a B.S. with honors in computer science, he has worked on matters involving a wide range of complex technologies, such as relational databases, web browsers, website validation and testing, motion-tracking technology, Wi-Fi, mobile phones, biomedical devices, microprocessor fabrication, motor controllers, spam and spearphishing detection, deep-packet inspection routers, computer vision, and other computer software and hardware technologies.

At Singer Cashman, Evan has been a critical member of numerous successful trial teams. He examined forensics experts for both parties in Proofpoint, Inc et al. v. Vade Secure, Inc., et al. and played a key role in securing a finding of no willful misappropriation that resulted in a total damages award of $1. In addition, he participated in recent arbitration hearings representing Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. and Dr. Canfeng Lai that involved highly complex and complicated issues. Evan began his legal career as a volunteer attorney with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, where he honed his litigation and trial skills, trying multiple cases through verdict as sole chair (two acquittals, one hung jury, one guilty).

Education

J.D., Harvard Law School (2010)
B.S. Computer Science (with honors), University of Michigan (2007)

Prior Associations

Kobre & Kim LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
San Francisco Public Defender’s Office

Bar Admissions

State Bar: California
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Northern District of California
Central District of California
Eastern District of Texas

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Notable Matters

Some of Evan’s notable matters include:

Applied Materials, Inc. v. Lai et al. (Cal. Super. and JAMS) – Key trial team member representing defendants in their defense of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract claims relating to advanced techniques for semiconductor fabrication.
Proofpoint, Inc. v. Vade Secure, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Key trial team member representing former Chief Technology Officer of email security software company in defense of trade secret, copyright, and contract claims stemming from CTO’s departure from plaintiff company and his alleged copying of source code into competing products at subsequent employer. After a three-week trial, the jury rejected Plaintiff’s claims that CTO was “central bad actor”, returned a verdict finding no willful misappropriation, and awarded damages of less than 1% of Plaintiff’s request. In post-trial motions, the Singer Cashman team ran the table, securing Orders (1) denying a permanent injunction; (2) denying Plaintiffs’ request to reopen discovery; (3) denying pre-judgment interest; (4) eliminating any obligation Mr. Lemarié could have had to contribute to the award against Vade Secure; and (6) eliminating all but $1 in nominal damages against Lemarié.
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. (Arbitration) – Represented Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. In multiple matters involving, among other things, claims for assignment of patents relating to computer vision technology and autonomous vehicle systems, as well as claims relating to the public dissemination of confidential company information. In the concluded matter, obtained favorable results for Samsung following arbitration hearing.
Anduril Industries, Inc. v Salient Motion Inc. et al. (C.D. Cal) – Second-chair counsel for Salient Motion and two of its co-founders in their defense of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract claims relating to algorithms and code utilized by advanced motor controllers.
MicroVention, Inc. v. Balt USA, LLC et al. (C.D. Cal) – Recently engaged on the eve of trial to represent former Director of Research and Development in his defense of a trade secret misappropriation claim relating to catheter-based medical devices.
Deep Web, L.L.C. v. Ask Media Group, LLC (N.D. Cal.) – Second-chair counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to deep web search engine technology. Achieved favorable result for client.
Proxicom Wireless, LLC v. Macy’s Inc. et al. (M.D. Fl.) – Second-chair counsel for defendant in a patent infringement action relating to BLE technology. Achieved favorable result for client.
Blackbird Tech, LLC v. Arro, Inc. et al. (D. Del.) – Second-chair counsel for defendants in a patent infringement action relating to GPS enabled computing. Achieved favorable result for client.
Software Research, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) – Second-chair counsel for inventor/plaintiff in a series of patent infringement actions relating to automatic performance and regression testing of web applications. Achieved favorable results for client in numerous cases over many years.

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