Davis, Keith B.

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

• Dell resolves three-patent infringement dispute relating to computer systems and cache memory coherency
• Freescale Semiconductor resolves patent licensing matters related to DRAM memory technologies
• IBM and Dell defend against patent infringement charges involving hardware and software for displaying graphics , (2009)
• IBM defends against patent infringement charges relating to data management on computer networks , (2009)
• MOSAID Technologies settles favorably in patent infringement case involving computer memory , (2009)
• Motorola and Freescale resolve patent suit with STMicroelectronics over 12 semiconductor patents
• Motorola settles patent infringement suit with Zoltar involving self-locating cellular GPS technology , (2009)
• Nokia defends against patent infringement charges involving antenna and power-saving technologies
• Nokia wins favorable summary judgment in patent infringement case involving design of cell phone keyboards , (2009)
• SanDisk defends against patent infringement charges involving integrated circuit chips , (2009)
• SanDisk fends off against patent infringement claims by Texas MP3 Technologies relating to MP3 players , (2009)
• Saudi Basic Industries successfully appeals claim that nuclear reactor technology was misappropriated
• Verity Instruments mounts successful defense against patent infringement and other claims related to semiconductor wafer inspection and profilometry

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
• Texas A&M Univ- College Statio

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Dallas, TX 75201-1515

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