Kevin Smith is a Of Counsel in the San Francisco office. His practice focuses on patent, antitrust, and commercial litigation. He has litigated cases in federal courts in Texas, California, Wisconsin, and Illinois in a variety of technology areas, including Internet services, search engines, network messaging, VoIP, databases, satellites, computer routers, gaming machines, and cellular telephones.
- Alliance Gaming
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Google Inc.
- Jesta Digital
- MicroStrategy, Inc.
- Rodale, Inc.
- Samsung Electronics
- ViaSat Inc.
- Yahoo! Inc.
- Obtained a summary judgment of non-infringement and/or invalidity on five patents related to slot machines and player tracking units on behalf of Alliance Gaming.
- Obtained a reversal on appeal of a jury verdict of infringement on behalf of Yahoo! Inc. in a case related to its Instant Messenger product.
- Obtained a dismissal for lack of standing and subsequent affirmance on appeal on behalf of Cisco Systems in a patent infringement dispute related to VoIP telephony.
- Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement and subsequent affirmance on appeal on behalf of over thirty cellular telephone manufacturer defendants in a Texas patent case in which a University plaintiff sought in excess of $1.5 billion in damages for alleged infringement of a patent related to text entry on a telephone keypad.
- Obtained summary judgment of invalidity and a stipulation of non-infringement on behalf of MicroStrategy, Inc. in a case involving patents related to online analytical processing software.
- University of Michigan Law School
(J.D., magna cum laude, 2004)- Michigan Law Review:
- Executive Editor
- Michigan Journal of Race & Law:
- Associate Editor
- Order of the Coif
- John M. Olin Student Fellow in Law and Economics
- Michigan Law Review:
- University of Michigan
(B.A., Economics & Philosophy, 2001)
- The State Bar of New York
- The State Bar of California
- United States District Courts:
- Central District of California
- Eastern District of California
- Eastern District of Texas
- Northern District of California
- Southern District of California
- United States Court of Appeals:
- Federal Circuit
- Ninth Circuit
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Emilio M. Garza:
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2005-2006
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2005-2006
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Charles P. Sifton:
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2004-2005
- Selected as a SuperLawyer Rising Star, 2014-2018
- The Media at the Tip of the Spear, 102 Michigan Law Review (2004)
- Psychology, Factfinding, and Entrapment, 103 Michigan Law Review (2005)