Rehan M. Safiullah

Rehan M. Safiullah is an intellectual property attorney and counsel at Antonelli, Harrington & Thompson. Before joining the firm, he was counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in the intellectual property group, with a focus on patent litigation and IP counseling. Rehan briefly served as a clerk for Hon. Leonard E. Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in a judicial internship before joining Akin Gump.

Rehan has represented clients—plaintiffs and defendants—in a variety of disputes in courts across the country, including the federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He has prepared appellate briefs and counseled on oral argument before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has considerable experience in patent litigation matters and has argued motions and taken witnesses on direct and cross-examination at trial. He has also successfully argued before the PTAB.

Rehan has been involved with matters in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, electronics, energy, and academia. He has also handled patent prosecution matters relating to physics, chemistry, electronics, and energy-related inventions and has counseled clients on IP transactional matters, including licensing, patent opinion work, patent acquisitions, and over-all IP strategy (including IP audits). Rehan is a registered patent attorney.

Rehan received his J.D. in 2008 from Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was a member of the Board of Barristers. He graduated cum laude. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2005, where he graduated magna cum laude. During his studies, he was engaged in undergraduate research relating to aperture array lithography for medical applications.

Admissions

State Bar of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, 2005
J.D., Texas Tech University, 2008

Publications

Co-Author, Fuelling IoT litigation, Intellectual Property Magazine, June 2019 (with Charles Everingham IV &Thomas W. Landers IV).
Author, Federal Circuit Refuses to Create Separate Exhaustion and Repair Rules for Design Patents, Akin Gump IP News Flash, July 26, 2019.
Author, New York Court Invalidates Targeted-Advertising Patents under Alice, Akin Gump IP News Flash, Mar. 4, 2016.
Co-Author, The Smartphone Patent Wars: A U.S. Perspective, IP Litigator, Vol. 18, No. 4, July/Aug. 2012 (with Fred Williams).
Co-Author, The Tension between Reexamination and Litigation: A Roadmap for Patent Litigators, IP Litigator, Vol. 18, No. 1, Jan./Feb. 2012 (with Lester Hewitt & Sarah Ring).