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Kevin Johnson, who has an electrical engineering degree from Cornell, has tried a number of cases to verdict.  Kevin's practice focuses on litigating patent infringement, trade secret, unfair competition, trademark, copyright and licensing actions in Federal and State courts as well as the International Trade Commission. His experience ranges from representing Fortune 50 companies to smaller rapidly growing technology companies in disputes related to microprocessors, wireless communications, semiconductor processing equipment, liquid crystal devices, consumer products, consumer electronics, medical devices, biotech products, business method customer loyalty programs, computer software and graphics, telecommunications, and optical devices.

MediaTek
Samsung
Gillette Company
Sony

Represented MediaTek in a series of patent lawsuits in San Francisco and Marshall, Texas against Matsushita involving semiconductors and consumer electronics products.  After obtaining favorable rulings on claim construction, summary judgment and other key motions, the case settled on very favorable terms.

Defending Samsung in a case brought by Agere Systems involving technology related to semiconductor memory products and semiconductor processing.

Defended the Gillette Company in a successful jury trial involving patents related to technology used on the Mach3 razor. 

Defending Sony in separate cases involving floppy disk controller errors and downloadable information on Sony's websites.

Representing Bio-Rad in cases brought against 4titude and Eppendorf involving PCR technology.

Defended Avaya in a multi-defendant patent action brought by sole inventor in North Carolina relating to metering systems.  After serving a Rule 11 motion, obtained walk-away settlement.

Represented most of the cell phone industry (30+ defendants) in a patent case in Texas brought by the University of Texas involving predictive text messaging.  After convincing the Court to stay discovery on everything except claim construction and hold a separate trial on validity of the patent, the Court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment of non-infringement. 

Represented Varian Semiconductor against Applied Materials in a patent infringement arbitration involving semiconductor processing equipment.  The arbitration panel found that Applied infringed Varian's patents.

Defended OTC in an unfair competition, trade secret and copyright case.  Case was dismissed on summary judgment, and OTC was awarded its attorneys fees and costs.
Successfully defended Ampex is a series of patent jury trials involving error correction and Audio and Video standards.  The jury found the patents invalid and not infringed.

Defended the DeVry University in one of the first cases brought under California's new anti-spam statute.