Liam Azartash is a litigation associate in O’Melveny’s Washington, DC office. He represents clients in both offensive and defensive intellectual property and technology litigation campaigns, including complex trade secret disputes, patent litigation, international proceedings, and FRAND licensing matters in the United States, South America, and Europe. He also has experience with standard-essential patents, particularly involving eSIM, 5G, AVC (H.264), and HEVC (H.265) technologies. His experience spans a broad range of technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, inference, AI-acceleration hardware, voice recognition, cryptography, end-to-end encryption, embedded chips, touch-screen sensors, digital pens, signal processing, video encoding and decoding, media processing, and synchronized media presentation.

Before joining O’Melveny, Liam practiced litigation in Silicon Valley at a global AmLaw 100 firm, where he represented leading technology companies in complex patent, trademark, and commercial disputes. He also has experience drafting patent applications involving software, semiconductors, computer hardware, medical devices, and diagnostic technologies.

Before practicing law, Liam worked as a software engineer for a medical device company and a technology startup and interned at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. During his undergraduate and graduate studies, he conducted research involving semiconductor packaging, OLED adhesives, computer vision, and machine learning. While in law school, he served as a research assistant focusing on contract and constitutional law.