Mr Hopkins Guy > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Palo Alto, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
1001 PAGE MILL ROAD
BUILDING ONE, SUITE 200
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304-1007
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Mr Hopkins Guy
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner
Career
Hopkins Guy has extensive expertise in patent, trade secrets and commercial contract litigation involving all areas of Web-based telecommunications, electronics and computer technologies. He provides intellectual property counsel to technology companies from start-up to mature companies, particularly in clean-tech, hydrogen and solar technologies. Mr. Guy’s patent and trade secrets litigation experience has involved technologies in Web-based payment systems, social networking, wireless and satellite communication equipment and routing, semiconductor processing, packaging and equipment, microprocessors, power semiconductor devices, flash memory technology and solar technologies. Mr. Guy’s representations have included DISH, Toshiba, Apple, Applied Materials, Intel, Cisco, eBay, PayPal, BrightEdge and Cambium.
Mr. Guy was the recipient of the 2003 CLAY Award in Intellectual Property for his work on the Cisco v. Huawei case, a case that continues to be relevant today. Mr. Guy also represented Facebook in its defense against the ConnectU and the Winklevoss twins which subsequently became the subject of the movie The Social Network.
Memberships
ALL; Cal State, USDistCt for Nd, CD, SD, 9th and 5th Cirs. Virginia, USPTO Registered Patent Attorney.
Education
J.D., University of Richmond School of Law 1982
B.S., University of Virginia 1979
Leisure
Mr. Guy is an avid skier, hiker, mountain biker and sailor. He spends time in the mountains of California and Colorado and on his farm in Virginia.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
The intellectual property team at Baker Botts L.L.P. has expertise spanning all industries, with in-depth knowledge of litigation strategy and the full range of IP issues. While acting for clients across a range of industries, the expertise of the team lies primarily in tech, acting for prominent tech companies including Samsung Electronics, Lyft, AT&T, Dell Inc and LG Electronics. Robert Scheinfeld in New York co-chairs the intellectual property department alongside Christa Brown-Sanford in Dallas. Focusing on IP litigation, Douglas Kubehl in Dallas and Roger Fulghum in Houston lead the firmwide practice. ‘Gifted trial attorney’ Hopkins Guy is another key lawyer in the team, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense