Maria S. Swiatek
Partner
2 Palo Alto Square
3000 El Camino Real, Suite 500
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Phone: 650-320-7789 • Fax: 866-741-3071
E-mail: mswiatek@nixonpeabody.com
Website: www.nixonpeabody.com
Practice
Intellectual Property
Patents
IP Transactions
Experience
Maria Swiatek is an attorney in Nixon Peabody LLP’s Patents Practice
Group. Ms. Swiatek offers her clients strategic patent counseling with
particular emphasis on competitive analysis, patent portfolio
development and procurement, licensing, and infringement matters in a
broad range of technologies. She works with her clients to maximize the
value of their innovations and their entire IP portfolio. Her extensive
IP transactional work has included conducting due diligence
investigations and the negotiation of acquisitions, license agreements,
and joint development agreements of IP assets. Prior to entering private
practice, Ms. Swiatek worked as in-house IP attorney at WatkinsJohnson, an electronics and semiconductor company, where she was
responsible for all aspects of the company’s intellectual property
strategy.
Ms. Swiatek has experience working with clients in a wide array of
industries, including semiconductors, material science, chemical,
renewable energy, medical devices, and telecommunications.
Admissions
Ms. Swiatek is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office and the California Supreme Court.
Education
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D., With
Distinction
California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, B.S.
Affiliations
Member, California Bar Association
Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, American Chemical Society
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List of Representative Transactions - IP Aspects
 Represented Wyse Technology Inc., a global cloud computing
company, in its acquisition by Dell, Inc., with a focus on IP
due diligence, reps and warranties, and IP aspects of the deal
documents
 Represented GigOptix, Inc., a fabless semiconductor and
optical components company, in its acquisition of Endwave
Corporation, with a focus on IP due diligence
 Preparation and negotiation of out-bound patent license
agreements directed to semiconductor components and
systems and LED technologies, with complicated issues such
as patent exhaustion, use and territory limitations
 Preparation and negotiation of authorized manufacturing
agreements and technology license agreements directed to
semiconductor components, systems and LED technologies
 Preparation and negotiation of End User License Agreements
(EULA) for various IP cores
 Preparation and negotiation of joint development agreements
for the chemical, semiconductor, telecommunications, solar
energy and medical device industries
 Acquisition and divestiture of IP assets for multi-million dollar
transactions in the semiconductor, electronics and defense
telecommunications industries
 Negotiation of sale and cross-license agreement for multimillion dollar divestiture of high density plasma
semiconductor assets and intellectual property
 Preparation and negotiation of acquisition and license
agreements for purchase of GaAs semiconductor fab assets
and intellectual property
 Preparation and negotiation of ARPA Cooperative Agreement
with the United States Air Force and related three party
Consortium Agreement for the development of certain
advanced technologies
 Due diligence investigation and prepation of IP opinions in
connection with Initial Public Offering of WJ
Communications, Inc.
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LIST OF SELECTED PATENTS
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Display Technology, including:
o U.S. Patent No. 7,190,416 – Liquid Crystal Display with
Touch Panel Having Internal Front Polarizer
o U.S. Patent No. 7,211,824 – Organic Semiconductor
Diode
o U.S. Patent No. 7,267,849 – Compensator for Liquid
Crystal Display
o U.S. Patent No. 7,317,499 – Multilayer Plate and Display
Panel with Anisotropic Crystal Film and Conducting
Protective Layer
o U.S. Patent No. 7,405,787 – Liquid Crystal Display
with Offset Viewing Cone
o U.S. Patent No. 6,942,925 – Dichroic Polarizer
U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2010/0006796 –
Phosphonium Ionic Liquids, Compositions, Methods of
Making and Devices Formed There from
U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2009/0225585 – SelfContained Charge Storage Molecules for Use in
Molecular Capacitors
U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2009/0056991 – Methods of
Treating a Surface to Promote Binding of Molecule(s) of
Interest, Coatings and Devices Formed There from
U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2008/0230120 – Photovoltaic
Devices with Nano structured Layers
U.S. Patent Publication No. 2008/0009078 – Methods and
Devices for Analyte Detection
U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2007/0027371 –
Implantable Tissue Ischemia Sensor
U.S. Patent No. 7,470,470 – System and Method for
Forming Multi-Component Dielectric Film
U.S. Patent No. 7,335,569 – In-Situ Formation of Metal
Insulator Metal (MIM) Capacitors
U.S. Patent No. 7,269,230 – Systems and Method for
Designing a high-Precision Narrowband Digital Filter
for Use in a Communications System with High Spectral
Efficiency
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U.S. Patent No. 7,062,306 – Spectroscopy Illuminator with
Improved Delivery Efficiency for High Optical Density
and Reduced Thermal Load
U.S. Patent No. 6,933,011 – Two-Step Atomic Layer
Deposition of Copper Layers
U.S. Patent No. 6,880,326 – High Regression Rate Hybrid
Rocket Propellants and Method of Selecting
U.S. Patent No. 6,458,013 – Method of Chemical Mechanical
Polishing
U.S. Patent No. 6,068,884 - Method of Making Low
Dielectric Inorganic/Organic Hybrid Films
U.S. Patent No. 6,031,685 - Information Storage Systems
Comprising a Liquid Bearing Maintained by Adsorption
Isotherm
U.S. Patent No. 6,001,267 Plasma Enhanced Chemical Method