Rachel Capoccia is a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation with an emphasis on patent litigation, copyright litigation and other technology­related matters. Her legal experience is complemented by 10 years working at IBM as a software engineer before law school, during which she led a team of engineers who developed computer graphics software and computer aided design systems.

Rachel has represented clients in patent infringement matters involving diverse areas of technology, including digital cameras, Internet­based software systems, biotechnology, cellular telephony, video and audio conferencing systems, image processing software, encryption software, CAD/CAM and computer graphics software, medical devices and design patents. She is experienced in all phases of patent litigation, including trial, acting as lead counsel for a number of claim construction proceedings and technology tutorials, all other pre-trial activities, patent portfolio analysis and drafting and negotiating settlement and patent license agreements.

Rachel is an adjunct professor of copyright law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she attended law school and received the Alumni Award for graduating first in her class. After law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Cynthia Holcomb Hall of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.