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Susanna Chenette

Senior Associate
(415) 995-5189

Intro

Susanna is a registered patent attorney in the firm’s Technology and Intellectual Property practice. Her practice focuses on patent litigation and licensing disputes, trade secret misappropriation, technology-related commercial matters, and software performance disputes in state and federal courts and before the ITC, although she also has experience prosecuting patents and helping clients with general civil litigation matters in state and federal courts, including contract disputes, unfair competition, construction defect, FCRA, petition for writ of mandate, antitrust, bankruptcy, unlawful detainer, 1983 violations, defamation and false light, and various tort claims.

Education

J.D., UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings), 2008
A.B., University of Chicago, 2003

Academic Distinction

Judicial Extern to Judge Richard R. Clifton, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Honolulu, HI 

Admissions and Courts

California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Role

Intro

Susanna is a registered patent attorney in the firm’s Technology and Intellectual Property practice. Her practice focuses on patent litigation and licensing disputes, trade secret misappropriation, technology-related commercial matters, and software performance disputes in state and federal courts and before the ITC, although she also has experience prosecuting patents and helping clients with general civil litigation matters in state and federal courts, including contract disputes, unfair competition, construction defect, FCRA, petition for writ of mandate, antitrust, bankruptcy, unlawful detainer, 1983 violations, defamation and false light, and various tort claims.

Areas of Focus

Education

J.D., UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings), 2008
A.B., University of Chicago, 2003

Academic Distinction

Judicial Extern to Judge Richard R. Clifton, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Honolulu, HI 

Admissions and Courts

California
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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“X Gets AI Developer’s Deplatforming Case Sent To Texas,” Law260 (October 2025)

“Contractual Provisions Prohibiting the Reverse Engineering of Software: Permissible or Preempted? Future Considerations for the Shrinkwrap License,” co-author, Practicing Law Institute, 15th Annual Institute on Intellectual Property Law (July 2009)
 

“In re Bilski and the Patentability of Processes,” co-author, 7th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute (May 2009)