Dr. Suparna Datta is Of Counsel and a registered patent attorney in Maynard Cooper’s Intellectual Property practice group. She focuses her practice primarily on patent litigation and patent prosecution in the areas of wireless communication systems, optical and magnetic storage systems, error correction codes, and digital signal processing. Dr. Datta has extensive experience litigating complex patent cases, where she has successfully represented clients in both federal district courts and the International Trade Commission.
Dr. Datta has several years of experience as a researcher and engineer in coding and information theory. As a member of the DSP Solutions R&D Center of Texas Instruments, she conducted coding research for 3rd and 4th generation wireless standards. In particular, she investigated and designed LDPC codes for use in mobile wireless ADSL systems.
Dr. Datta has worked with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center researching their Multimedia Communications System group. Additionally, she was a visiting assistant professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Northeastern University, where she taught several electrical and computer engineering courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
As a Presidential Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Datta’s doctoral work produced many new results in the area of coding for nonbinary run length-limited channels. She has authored several publications in peer-reviewed journals related to her work.
Dr. Datta received her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, where she was the recipient of the Best Oral Advocate award and the Honorable Mention Best Brief award. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. in electrical engineering, with distinction, and her B.A. in mathematics, with distinction, from Cornell University.
Dr. Datta is a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Dr. Datta is admitted to practice in California, New York, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Alabama, as well as before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.