Luiz von Paumgartten - Plano, TX

Luiz von Paumgartten is a partner at Fogarty LLP, where he builds patent portfolios for technology companies. Over 25 years, his clients have included Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Amazon, NXP Semiconductors (including Freescale), Motorola, and Texas Instruments.

He holds an M.S.E.E. from The University of Texas at Austin and a B.S.M.E. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and earned his J.D., cum laude, from SMU Dedman School of Law, where he was Articles Editor for the Computer Law Review and Technology Journal. Super Lawyers has named him a Rising Star, Patent Research Review has named him a Top Patent Prosecutor, and he has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America. He previously practiced at Norton Rose Fulbright and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Every day he works with inventors and in-house counsel, writing patent applications that serve what a client needs now and where the business is headed. He often leads invention sessions in which dozens of related ideas are weighed, then prepared and filed together.

His practice covers semiconductor fabrication and electronic packaging, analog and digital circuit design, memory, microprocessors and microcontrollers, computer hardware, cloud computing, and network monitoring and security, as well as artificial intelligence, software, audio and video processing, virtual and augmented reality, and business methods. In recent years, much of his work has been on data center architecture and on thermal management and liquid cooling for AI hardware.

Luiz also handles license negotiations, infringement opinions, and litigation support. He speaks Portuguese and works directly with R&D teams in Brazil.

In 2025, he published The Abstractionist’s Papers, a book about how reality works and how new things emerge. He is often invited to speak about it.