Celia Lewis focuses her work on patent litigation spanning a wide range of electrical engineering and computer science innovations.
Celia developed a deep familiarity with the workings of district court during her time as a judicial extern to the Honorable Beth Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where she researched and drafted memoranda analyzing areas of federal law and their application to ongoing cases. Her legal experience at Fish & Richardson also includes drafting patents, office actions responses, and inter partes review petitions, as well as conducting legal research. She is a registered patent agent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Before beginning her career in IP law, Celia worked as an electrical engineer. She researched and wrote proposals covering navigational algorithms, machine learning, signal processing, robotics, wearable devices, and communication protocols for medical, commercial, and military applications. She also served as an engineering technical writer for a mathematic computing software company, collaborating with engineers and developers to author technical content for HDL Coder, an FPGA design and code-generation product. These experiences sharpened Celia's ability to translate complex concepts into clear, accessible prose — a skill she now draws on to communicate sophisticated technologies to judges and juries.
As a former collegiate field hockey player, Celia enjoys staying active in her free time through skiing and playing pickleball.
Not admitted to practice in California. Work conducted in California is directly supervised by a member of the California bar or is limited to U.S. federal courts or agencies listed in admissions or otherwise authorized by law.
