Samuel Guerra

Patent Agent
Biography

Samuel Guerra is a Patent Agent at Kubota & Basol LLP, where he regularly prepares new patent applications, responds to office actions, conducts patentability analyses, and analyzes client portfolios. He also handles pre-appeals and appeals before the U.S. Patent Trials and Appeals Board (PTAB). Samuel's practice spans a broad array of technologies, including consumer electronics hardware, user interfaces for mobile and non-mobile platforms, autonomous and non-autonomous rovers, and transportation systems.

Before joining the firm in 2021, Samuel worked at an IP boutique firm in Orange County, CA, assisting small companies and inventors in protecting their technologies across various electrical, optical, software, and mechanical fields, such as fiber optic communications and integrated silicon photonics technologies. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Physics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Samuel is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Highlights
  • Extensive experience in patent prosecution
  • Drafted and prosecuted patents across diverse technologies
  • Advised clients in patent acquisitions
  • Presented oral arguments before the PTAB
Publications
Bar Admissions
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Education
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo - 2019
  • Minor in Physics
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo - 2019
Practice Areas
  • Patent Preparation and Prosecution (U.S. and International)
  • Strategic IP Counseling and Portfolio Management
  • Patent Acquisition Analysis and Support
  • Appeals Proceedings before PTAB
Favorite Patent

V-type Three-Point Safety Belt
(US 3,043,625)

View Patent

The V-type three-point safety belt, otherwise known as the modern seatbelt, has saved the lives of millions of automobile drivers and passengers. What makes this patent so unique and significant to me is that, rather than monopolize safety in automobiles by licensing the design to its rivals, Volvo made the patent public to all, allowing all carmakers to freely use the V-type three-point safety belt, which exemplifies the practice of capitalism with conscience.