Blake R. Davis

Blake’s recent matters include representing:

• Disney as lead counsel defending against patent cases relating to the H.265 video codec brought by Velos in California, the UPC, and Germany
• Paramount in litigation against Nokia in Delaware, Brazil, Germany, and the UK relating to video codec SEPs
• InductEV as lead counsel defending against two cases brought by WiTricity involving 11 patents, including declared SEPs to the SAE J2954 standard for high-power wireless charging systems
• Estelgia LLC as trial counsel asserting six patents relating to WiFi routers and mesh technology against Plume, Linksys, ASUS, and D-Link
• Sutherland as lead counsel in trade secret litigation against Sophia relating to healthcare artificial intelligence technology
• Music generative AI companies defending against copyright infringement claims brought by major record labels

Blake’s prior matters include:

• Orca Security v. Wiz (D. Del): C o-lead counsel representing Orca in an 11-patent case relating to cloud security against Wiz Inc.
• Juries.ai v. Vincent Sheu (N.D. Cal): Represented Juries.ai in trade secret litigation against co-founder regarding artificial intelligence-powered courtroom simulations. Settled favorably after TRO and preliminary injunction were granted
• Netgear v. TP-Link (ITC): Represented Netgear in dispute including two ITC investigations, multiple district court litigations through California, including preliminary injunction proceedings regarding alleged WiFi SEP, and numerous PTAB and reexamination proceedings against competitor TP-Link. After resounding victory at trial and ALJ recommending excluding TP-Link’s routers from the US market, the case settled favorably for Netgear
• GlobalFoundries v. IBM (S.D.N.Y): Represented GlobalFoundries in a multibillion-dollar trade secret dispute against IBM related to semiconductor manufacturing technology, which was hailed as “one of the most complex trade secret battles in the semiconductor industry.” Case settled favorably
• Overhead Door v. Chamberlain (ITC): Trial counsel for Overhead Door in litigation against competitor Chamberlain, including securing an exclusion order barring vast majority of Chamberlain’s garage door products from importation based on infringement of three patents
• Certain Digital Video Receivers and Related Hardware and Software Components (ITC): Trial counsel for Comcast against allegations of infringement of eight patents relating to various communications and set top box technologies; obtained complete victory finding all patents not infringed or invalid
• FlexStent v. Abbott (C.D. Cal.) (Fed. Cir.): Defended Abbott in a patent infringement lawsuit against Abbott’s Xience stents, the best-selling drug-eluting stents on the market, and successfully invalidated all patent claims in IPR proceedings, and the Federal Circuit issued a Rule 36 affirmance on FlexStent’s appeal — a total victory for Abbott
• Edwards v. Abbott (C.D. Cal.): Secured a highly favorable settlement for Abbott in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by competitor Edwards Lifesciences, alleging that Abbott’s MitraClip — a transcatheter-based mitral repair device and one of Abbott’s flagship products — infringed three patents; Abbott filed IPRs and Edwards responded by dropping all challenged claims
• Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. v. Abbott (E.D. Mich): Defended Abbott in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by ISS relating to wireless heart monitoring device, called CardioMEMs, which ISS alleged was a rip-off; after Abbott’s two IPRs were instituted by the USPTO, ISS voluntarily dismissed its case
• FotoNation Limited v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (E.D. Tex.): Secured a favorable settlement for plaintiff FotoNation in an eight-patent suit against Samsung relating to face detection and tracking technology in mobile phones