Diego F. Freire
Senior Attorney
Diego F. Freire is an attorney in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. He concentrates his practice on intellectual property law matters, including patent and trademark prosecution, due diligence, and clearance/opinion matters.
Diego has experience assisting clients with protecting their intellectual property rights across various technical areas, including software, mechanical, electrical, mobile devices, lighting, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, and medical devices.
Before attending law school, Diego was an Edison Engineer at GE Healthcare, where he helped design medical devices, including Computer Tomography (CT) machines and life sciences devices. As part of his master’s thesis, Diego developed and designed neural networks for sorting data.
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- University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D.
- University of Illinois – Chicago, M.S.
- University of Illinois – Chicago, B.S.
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Bar Admissions
- Illinois
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Court Admissions
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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Named to Best Lawyers' "Ones to Watch" list
- Intellectual Property Law, 2026
- Litigation - Intellectual Property, 2026
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American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
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International Trademark Association (INTA)
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Chicago Bar Association
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Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)
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Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois (HLAI)
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Youth Guidance Associate Board of Directors
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- Spanish
Areas of client focus
Northern District of California Allows Trademark Claims Against AI To Proceed
Takeaways Trademark owners cleared an important procedural hurdle against AI companies after a…
“Synthetic deception: Deepfakes create new frontier of IP risk”
Diego Freire was quoted in the World IP Review article, “Synthetic deception: Deepfakes create new…
The White House AI Framework for Fair Use and Why the Courts May Get There First
On March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, a seven…
