Yasamin Parsafar

Overview

Yasamin Parsafar is a partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group in the firm's San Francisco office. She is a Co-Leader of the firm’s Blockchain and Fintech Team and a member of the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Team.

Areas of Practice

Yasamin’s practice focuses on protecting and enforcing her clients’ IP rights (trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret), as well as risk management. She uses her litigation experience to strengthen and protect her clients’ IP portfolios, manage risks, and position businesses to succeed in the event of a dispute. Yasamin provides strategic advice and counseling to avert disputes and to resolve disputes in a way that aligns with business goals should they arise. When necessary, Yasamin litigates cases through trial. She has over a decade of experience litigating complex commercial claims involving copyright, trademark, trade dress, false advertising, and patent disputes in federal courts nationwide.

Yasamin frequently advises businesses on unique issues related to emerging technologies such as generative AI and blockchain technology. She counsels clients on issues related to training and use of generative AI tools, policy development, and considerations for acquiring, investing in, or contracting with companies that train or use these models. With respect to blockchain technology, she has experience protecting and enforcing brands in the metaverse and other web3.0 platforms, including developing trademark portfolios in this area, successfully taking down infringing NFTs from online marketplaces, shutting down infringing coin offerings, and recovering infringing blockchain domains. She has worked with various web3.0 platforms from blockchain-based games to crypto exchanges in developing various policies and user agreements.

Experience

Prior Matters:

TriPlay, Inc. v. WhatsApp Inc.: A member of the legal team for WhatsApp in a 4-patent case relating to cross-platform messaging systems filed in the District of Delaware. After favorable claim construction ruling conducted early in the case prior to discovery, obtained dismissal of entire case and invalidation of 2 out of 4 asserted patents under 35 U.S.C. § 101, after other two patents were withdrawn by plaintiff in response to institution of IPR.

Guzik Technical Enterprises, Inc. v. Western Digital Corp.: Served on the Western Digital legal team in the Northern District of California in a patent case relating to testing equipment for hard disk drive heads. Successfully narrowed the case from a start of 62 patent claims and 14 trade secrets to 12 patent claims and 0 trade secrets, including obtaining summary judgment of invalidity on some claims and summary judgment of non-infringement on other claims.

Delphix Corp. v. Actifio, Inc. (N.D. Cal.) (D. Mass): One of a team of attorneys who represented Actifio in a nine-patent case involving two jurisdictions. Case settled favorably after Delphix’s patents were invalidated in IPR proceedings.

Create Ads v. Endurance Int’l Gp. & Constant Contact (D. Del.): On the team that served as lead counsel for companies sued by NPE. Case favorably settled after team filed summary judgment motion for lack of patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.

Samsung v. NVIDIA (E.D. Va.): Member of team that served as lead trial counsel for the defendant in a multi-jurisdiction suit. Jury found that none of the asserted claims were infringed and that the sole asserted system claim was also invalid. Litigation subsequently favorably settled with no remedy against NVIDIA.

RPost v. Constant Contact (E.D. Tex.): Member of team that served as lead counsel for national email marketing company in case brought by NPE. Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed the case.