Blake R. Davis

Blake's active matters include:

• Lead counsel for WAVE in patent infringement case brought by WiTricity asserting 5 wireless charging technology patents
• Co-lead counsel for Defendant Momentum Dynamics in two cases brought by WiTricity, including regarding 11 wireless charging technology patents; one patent invalidated in district court, five patents invalidated by PTAB, multiple additional IPR proceedings are ongoing
• Plaintiff Orca Security in a multi-patent competitor case against Wiz relating to cloud security

Blake's prior matters include:

• Netgear v. TP-Link (ITC): Represented Netgear in its offensive litigation against competitor TP-Link, and after a resounding victory at trial where TP-Link was found to infringe multiple Netgear patents and the ALJ recommended excluding TP-Link from the US market, the case settled favorably for Netgear. The dispute included two ITC investigations, multiple district court litigations through California, and numerous PTAB and reexamination proceedings
• GlobalFoundries v. IBM (S.D.N.Y): Represented Plaintiff GlobalFoundries in trade secret misappropriation case against IBM relating to manufacturing techniques for advanced sub-7nm semiconductor nodes. Obtained favorable settlement
• Overhead Door v. Chamberlain (ITC): Represented Overhead Door in offensive litigation against competitor Chamberlain, and secured 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): Represented Respondent 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