PALO ALTO/SAN FRANCISCO— The Daily Journal has named Kurt Calia and Alexa Hansen to its 2024 Top Intellectual Property Lawyers list, a recognition of the leading California lawyers who specialize in intellectual property law. This is Kurt’s fifth and Alexa’s second consecutive year receiving the honor.
Kurt is a partner in Covington’s Palo Alto office who tries complex intellectual property and other civil litigation matters in courts and tribunals throughout the country, and counsels clients in intellectual property matters. His practice encompasses the firm's life sciences and technology clients, ranging from pharmaceutical chemistry, biotechnology, and biomedical devices, to aerospace and defense, mechanical devices, business methods/software, and semiconductors.
Based in Covington’s San Francisco office, Alexa is a partner and patent litigator with an emphasis on pharmaceutical and biological patents. In addition to her litigation work, she also provides patent analysis for product acquisitions and financial transactions. Prior to law school, she worked as a medicinal chemist at Merck & Co. designing small molecule drugs and as a result, is named as an inventor on three patents.