Atanas Baitchev
Atanas Baitchev

Atanas Baitchev

Associate

San Diego

Introduction

Atanas has experience handling all aspects of pretrial patent litigation, representing clients accused of patent infringement.

Atanas Baitchev drafts inter partes review (IPR) petitions and supports trials through final written decision and appeals. Additionally, he has experience in prior art analysis, invalidity contentions, expert reports and depositions, non-infringement analysis for varied technologies in electrical and mechanical arts, and party and nonparty discovery.

Atanas earned his J.D. from University of Southern California's Gould School of Law, where he served on the staff of Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal and worked as a writing fellow to assist teaching first-year legal writing classes. He received his B.S. in biology from UCLA.

Education & credentials

  • University of Southern California - Gould School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, Staff, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 2018
  • University of California, Los Angeles, B.S., Biology, 2013
  • California
  • Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, Los Angeles, CA, Associate, 2018–2023; Summer Associate, 2017

Professional recognition

  • Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Litigation - Patent, 2026