Brandon G. Smith

Brandon Smith is a partner in our Orange County office. His practice is focused on high-stakes litigation and dispute resolution matters.  Mr. Smith has handled all types of contentious IP matters, including numerous patent and trademark cases, as well as copyright, trade secret, and data privacy matters.  Mr. Smith has practiced in a wide range of jurisdictions, including numerous federal district courts, multiple U.S. Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Mr. Smith represents clients in a wide range of technical fields, and has particular experience in cases involving consumer products, such as footwear, apparel, watches, eyewear, and many others.   Mr. Smith also leverages his biomedical engineering background to assist medical device clients in matters involving technologies such as bypass syringes, portable oxygen concentrators, prosthetics, CPAP machines, heart valves, and more.

Mr. Smith currently serves as the chair of Knobbe Martens’ Education Committee, and is the editor-in-chief for the Federal Bar Association of Orange County’s newsletter.

In addition to his litigation experience with Knobbe Martens, Mr. Smith has served as a Deputy District Attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office through the Trial Attorney Partnership program where he successfully prosecuted criminal matters, including a jury trial, as a first chair trial attorney.

Mr. Smith received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of Volume 52 of the San Diego Law Review.  Mr. Smith earned his Bachelor's of Science in Biomedical Engineering at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.