King & Spalding
Firm overview:
Georgia-headquartered global firm King & Spalding has the capacity to assist businesses with the complete range of patent matters. The firm’s patent prosecution, counselling and IP due diligence practice has advised clients on protecting and capitalising on a wide range of technologies and subject matter. The team has obtained and assisted in the procurement and management of hundreds of US and foreign patents and trademarks.
King & Spalding’s full-service IP practice combines first-chair trial lawyers and technical specialists, through patent litigation before district courts across the country, including the Western District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, and the Central and Northern Districts of California. The firm represents clients in post-grant proceedings, including inter partes review in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, appellate courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC).
The firm’s IP litigators are unfazed by highly complex matters and have handled disputes across a diverse range of industry sectors, including life sciences, telecommunications, computer systems, media and entertainment, biotech, consumer products, oil and gas, cosmetics and food and beverage.
Team overview:
King & Spalding’s key patents practice contacts include Trial and Global Disputes partner Holmes Hawkins, in Atlanta and Jill McWhirter, a Corporate, Finance and Investment Group partner, in Atlanta and Houston. Jeffrey Telep, in DC, focuses on the litigation of high-profile international trade disputes and is the head of King & Spalding’s Section 337 practice at the ITC where he has handled a number of high profile patents matters. The firm lost patent trial lawyer Jim Brogan to Steptoe in 2024.
Key matters:
Prosecution:
● King & Spalding assisted CMR Surgical, of Cambridge, UK, a medical device company, with a US patent application for Interfacing A Surgical Robotic Arm And Instrument.
● The firm assisted Natura Resources, of Abilene, Texas, a nuclear development company, with a US patent application for Nuclear Reactor Integrated Oil And Gas Production Systems And Methods Of Operation.
● King & Spalding assisted Chevron Australia, of Perth, Australia and Chevron USA, of San Ramon, California with a US patent application for Deployment Methods For Expanded Polymer Grout For Plug And Abandonment Applications.
Litigation:
● Certain Wireless Devices, Including Mobile Phones and Tablets II; Inv. No. 337-TA-905, International Trade Commission.
King & Spalding’s Jeffrey Telep represents Nokia in an ITC case related to the enforcement of multimedia standard-essential patents (SEPs) against Amazon and HP in 2023. In a final initial determination issued in December 2024, Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot sided with Nokia on four out of five asserted patents.
In September 2024, the Munich Regional Court held that Amazon’s streaming devices—including certain Fire TV Sticks—infringe patented video technology belonging to Nokia.
● Dolby Laboratories Licensing v Roku, No. 3:24-cv-04660, US District Court for the Northern District of California.
King & Spalding filed a complaint on behalf of client Dolby in 2024, which alleged that streaming-video company Roku had infringed Dolby’s patents and copyrights and broken a license agreement between the companies. Charles Correll, Sam Diamant, Shane Brun and Bruce Baber are on the K&S team.
Clients:
Prosecution - Chevron, CMR Surgical, Natura Resources, Skagerak Nokia.
Litigation - Composite Resources, Dolby, North American Rescue, Nokia.
