Baker Botts L.L.P. has a full-service intellectual property litigation team with expertise litigating patent infringement disputes both at trial and appellate level for major tech clients such as Abbott, AT&T and Cisco. The IP litigation group is co-chaired by Douglas Kubehl in Dallas and Roger Fulghum in Houston as well as New York-based lawyer Jennifer Tempesta, who focuses on patent litigation in the district courts and at the International Trade Commission, and Dallas partner Christa Brown-Sanford, who focuses on licensing and patent prosecution in the energy and tech spaces. Robert Maier is knowledgeable in all types of IP litigation. The group also includes Sarah Guske, who has particular expertise in software and electronics patent litigation and is praised by clients as having ‘a unique ability to chart a course from the early stages all the way to trial’, and patent litigator Katharine Burke in Washington DC.
Testimonials
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‘The different offices seem to work together very well, which means that they can put together a national team with the best talent for a particular case. This helps with cost control and quality.’
‘Jeremey Taylor manages litigation teams better than anyone that I know. For patent litigation, quality and price control depend upon the training provided to junior and mid-level attorneys. He seems to always develop great teams, which gives him the ability to produce high quality work at a reasonable price.
'Sarah Guske is incredibly creative and experienced. For difficult or company-critical cases, she has a unique ability to chart a course from the early stages all the way to trial. She stays deeply involved with strategy from the early stages, which is uncommon for trial lawyers of her experience.’
‘The Baker Botts patent litigation team around Hopkins Guy has breadth and depth. Hopkins and his colleagues are very talented.’
‘Hopkins Guy is a master attorney. He is a brilliant strategist and an excellent courtroom lawyer. Eliot Williams is exceptionally talented, and is an excellent oral advocate. Kurt Pankratz is a terrific courtroom lawyer.’
Key clients
- AT&T Mobility LLC
- Textron Innovations Inc.
- Motorola Solutions
- Toyota North America Motor Inc.
- Fujifilm Holdings Corporation
- Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co
- ON Semiconductor
- DISH Network
- Samsung Electronics Co.
- Lyft, Inc.
- Tile, Inc.
- Mastercard, Inc.
- American Honda Motor Co.
- Netflix
- Qualcomm
- NEC Corporation
- Garmin International
- Booking Holdings
- Arista Networks
Work highlights
- Represented Textron Innovations Inc. in a trial against SZ DJI Technology in which a jury awarded Textron $278.9m in damages, finding that DJI directly and indirectly infringed two patents.
- Assisted DISH Network with reversing a $469m patent judgement where the jury had found that DISH infringed ClearPlay’s patents.
- Assisted Helmerich & Payne with obtaining a settlement after Nabors Drilling Technologies brought an eight-patent case against the client.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Christa Brown-Sanford, Jennifer Tempesta, Doug Kubehl, Roger Fulghum