About Mika

Mika Ito is an associate in Stoel Rives’ Technology & Intellectual Property group. Mika has deep and specific experience in patent prosecutions of U.S. and foreign patent applications for emerging technologies including semiconductor (circuitry and fabrication), online entertainment (artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, video signal processing), interactive user interface applications (tactile inputs, speech technology), automotive electronics (GPS and telematics), and medical device (remote monitoring systems), among others.

Mika also advises clients on open-source licensing matters. Using her experience as a software engineer, she provides legal training about open-source licenses to software engineers.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Mika was an associate (2020–2022) and patent agent (2015–2020) with Dorsey and Whitney, LLP. Earlier in her career, she was an intellectual property engineer with Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. (2011–2015); a patent scientist with Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear LLP (2008–2011); a software engineer at Sony Corp. (1992–1999 and 2006–2007); and a speech linguist at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2004–2006).