Josh Van Hoven

josh@vanhovenpc.com

925-302-5941312-274-2106

Josh Van Hoven founded Van Hoven PC to represent companies facing challenging competitive issues at the intersection of law and technology. Josh's primary practice areas are strategic patent portfolio development and technology litigation.

Josh works with growing technology companies to develop patent portfolios that stand up to investor, litigation, and licensing scrutiny. When competing in an environment of multinational behemoths, “a file it and forget it” patent strategy does not achieve parity or competitive advantage. Instead, Josh helps companies to build bespoke portfolios designed to grow with a company's market and footprint. Josh maintains intimate involvement in ongoing drafting, prosecution, and portfolio strategy, ensuring that IP portfolios deliver decades of competitive leverage.

Josh also represents companies in technology litigation involving patents, trade secrets, and antitrust. Although he cut his teeth representing large multinationals, Josh's practice currently focuses on representing private companies and growing public companies against larger competitors and non-practicing entities. With their inherent asymmetry of financial resources or risk, these cases require creative and efficient lawyering. Working with a small, immersive team, Josh engages directly with the core legal and technical issues to deliver results, typically against international mega-firms or prolific plaintiffs' firms. He has represented clients in venues throughout the country, including in Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals nationwide, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission.

With education and work experience in electrical and mechanical engineering, and extensive programming experience, Josh is particularly suited to work in industries where hardware and software come together, such as industrial IoT, smart home, medical devices, semiconductors, analog circuits, robotics, autonomous vehicles, augmented and virtual reality, and RF communications.