Christopher Bezak

Christopher Bezak is a Partner at Studebaker Brackett PLLC in the Washington, D.C. area.  He holds a Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering with honors from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and a Juris Doctorate with honors from Michigan State University, College of Law.

His industry experience includes working as a telecommunications engineer for a technology services provider and in-house counsel with Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., a division of Continental Automotive, GmbH. And is formerly a partner with the law firm of Sughrue Mion, PLLC.

Over 17 years of experience handling patent matters, including patent preparation and prosecution for a wide variety of advanced software and hardware technologies including autonomous mobility, connected vehicle architecture and networking, telecommunications (3G/4G/5G), computer networking (802.11x, WiFi), audio/video encoding (MPEG, H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC), artificial intelligence, cloud computing, database systems, and graphical user interface design. Admitted to practice in Michigan and the District of Columbia; and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Mr. Bezak’s practice includes legal counseling for startup and multinational clients in the areas of patent preparation and prosecution in highly technical software and electrical fields. Mr. Bezak has extensive experience managing clients’ strategic intellectual property portfolios for both defense of key product lines and assertion in litigation and licensing negotiations; preparing non-infringement and invalidity opinions; performing due diligence investigations; and performing essentiality analysis for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). He also has experience conducting enforcement procedures including infringement litigation and post-grant review proceedings.