Gabriel Fitch is a registered patent attorney with a practice focused on obtaining and enforcing protection of various forms of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Gabe’s practice involves obtaining patents in technologies related to the fields of electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering. Prior to joining Loza & Loza, Gabe spent many years at a mid-sized IP boutique firm in Pasadena, CA, and clerked at another mid-sized IP boutique firm in Atlanta, GA.

Prior to law school, he was an applications engineer with Intellon Corporation (now a subsidiary of Qualcomm, Inc.), a design engineer and systems programmer with Barr Systems Inc., and an engineering intern with IBM Corporation, Nortel Networks, and Florida Power Corporation (now a subsidiary of Duke Energy).

Gabe has particular knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• Magnetic storage systems
• Wireless communications
• Radar systems
• Relay design
• Card readers
• Semiconductor chip design
• Networking
• Software and hardware design
• Telephone switching and power transmission, distribution and generation
• Communication protocols
• Power line communications
• Windows programming
• Hardware description languages such as VHDL and Verilog
• Printed circuit board technologies and layout tools
• FCC emissions testing and standards, mainframe communications
• Programming languages
• Utility power systems

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & RECOGNITIONS

Gabe is a member of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association (LAIPLA), the Pasadena Bar Association, and the San Gabriel Valley Bar Association. During law school, Gabe was an editor of the Journal of Law & Technology and a participant in the Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court

PUBLICATIONS

“From Napster to Kazaa: What the Recording Industry Did Wrong and What Options are Left”, University of Florida Journal of Technology Law and Policy (9 J. Tech. L. & Pol’y 183, 2004)