Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Keith's practice focuses on patent litigation. He has represented clients, including IBM, SanDisk, Texas Instruments, Verity Instruments, Nokia, Dell, Freescale, Motorola, and Saudi Basic Industries, in complex multiparty, multiforum, and multipatent litigations. These representations have involved technologies such as database systems and cache coherency, telecommunications systems, MP3 players, flash and DRAM memories, semiconductor chip packaging and processing, GPS systems, cellular phone antennas, and GUI design and have involved legal issues such as the impact of standards setting organizations on patentability and patent licensing, the doctrine of patent exhaustion, and the Saudi law system and the tort of "ghasb." Keith also has represented clients in trade secret, copyright, and trademark matters.

Before becoming an attorney Keith worked as an electrical engineer for LSI Logic, Raytheon Systems, and Lucent Technologies, where he engineered projects relating to microprocessors, complex digital signal processing systems, and switching power supplies.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Copyrights & Trademarks
• Patent Litigation

Representative Cases

• American Video Graphics, L.P. v. Dell Inc., Case No. 6:04-CV-397
• Intergraph Corp. v. Dell Computer Corp., Civil Action No. 2:02CV 312 (E.D. Tex. 2002)
• KLA-Tencor vs. Verity Instruments, Inc. and Arun A. Aiyer, Case No. 3:06cv5 (N.D. Tex. 2006)
• Kyocera International, Inc. v. Nokia Inc., Case No. 04-CV01992W (LSP)(S.D. Cal. 2004)
• Mosaid Technologies Inc. v. Infineon Technologies North America Corp et al., Case No. 6:05-cv-00120-LED (E.D. Tex. 2005)
• Motionless Keyboard Co. v. Nokia Inc., 05-1497, Fed. Cir.
• Motionless Keyboard Co. v. Nokia Inc., Case No. 04-CV-180-AA (D. Or. 2004)
• Saudi Basic Industries Corp. v. ExxonMobil Corp., Case No. 00C-07-161-JRJ
• STMicroelectronics, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Case No. 4:03-CV-276
• STMicroelectronics, Inc. v. SanDisk Corp., Case No. 4:05-CV-44, STMicroelectronics, Inc. v. SanDisk Corp., Case No. 4:05-CV-45
• Texas MP3 Technologies, Ltd. v. SanDisk Corporation et al., Case No. 2:07-cv-00052-TJW (E.D. Tex. 2007)
• Zoltar Satellite Systems, Inc. v. LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company, et al., Civil Action No. 2:05-cv-215 (E.D. Tex. 2005) (Judge Davis)
• DRAM Memory and Telecommunications Technologie.
• DRAM Memory Technologies

West Practice Categories

Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation, Patents, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• Cornell University

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Dallas, TX 75201-1515

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