Although he has a varied litigation practice, Gabriel Helmer focuses on helping clients protect their sensitive business data and systems, as well as their intellectual property assets. He advises companies faced with electronic espionage and data theft, breaches of computer and network security, as well as electronic, audio and video surveillance, and has helped them prevail in court against the competitors and rogue employees who committed these actions. Gabriel also helps clients investigate and respond to anonymous Internet activity that involves the clients’ intellectual property, including unauthorized transfers and public disclosures of proprietary information. As part of his information security work, he develops security policies and procedures that enable multinational companies to conduct internal investigations of security breaches, while complying with U.S. surveillance and privacy laws.

In addition to helping clients protect their data and trade secrets, Gabriel represents them in intellectual property litigation involving patents, trade secrets and copyrights. Gabriel not only protects IP assets at trial, he also helps clients develop valuations for their intellectual property so that they can gauge the novelty of patented technology and the related risks and potential opportunities presented by civil litigation to protect it.