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Baker Botts L.L.P.

Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets

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Baker Botts L.L.P.

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Baker Botts offers a team of focused and technically trained Intellectual Property lawyers who work with you to understand your business, providing creative solutions for your toughest challenges across every industry and technology. The lawyers in the firms IP practice handle a full range of IP related matters, including, but not limited to Branding, Advertising and Copyright, Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property Management, International Trade Commission (ITC), Licensing, Privacy and Data Security, PTAB Trials, Technology Transactions and Trade Secrets. With over 180 attorneys and patent professionals dedicated to IP from coast to coast and across the globe, Baker Botts has one of the largest and most highly regarded IP practices of any general practice law firm.

To learn more about our practice, please visit: www.bakerbotts.com/services/practice-areas/intellectual-property

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Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Baker Botts provides comprehensive patent support, assisting clients in electronics and life sciences with the acquisition, monetization and protection of IP rights. The team has an excellent litigation practice noted for its enviable record in district and federal court. The group is recognized for work in IPRs before the PTAB, as well as patent proceedings before the ITC and Customs and Border Protection. The team regularly argues patent appeals at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and fields additional expertise in trademark issues.

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Work Highlights

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  • Baker Botts achieved a complete dismissal for AT&T Mobility in a case brought by Finesse Wireless regarding cellular technology.

Strengths

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  • Baker Botts is very pragmatic in coming up with an appropriate strategy for our business.

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  • What sets Baker Botts apart is its rare mix of deep technical expertise and practical industry knowledge. On top of that, the team is responsive, approachable and easy to work with

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  • The firm provides thoughtful guidance and substantive analysis of critical issues.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Chad Walters
    Chad Walters

    Chad Walters

    Chad Walters cochairs Baker Botts' PTAB practice. He represents large tech and energy companies in IPR and reexamination proceedings.

    • Chad has a great deal of experience in PTAB matters and uses that experience very effectively to guide strategy and decision-making.

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    • Chad's expertise is top-notch and he is extremely responsive.

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    • Chad is smart, pragmatic, deeply experienced in PTAB matters and experienced in a number of technical areas.

      Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets respondentUSA

    • Chad is a good arguer in terms of PTAB and IPR hearings.

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    • Chad gives clients very practical guidance, steering them in the right direction, balancing benefit and risk and always having the clients' interests first.

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  • Eliot Williams
    Eliot Williams

    Eliot Williams

    Eliot Williams co-chairs Baker Botts' PTAB practice and specializes in multi-patent litigation. He is frequently instructed to represent large tech companies in proceedings before PTAB.

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  • Michael Hawes
    Michael Hawes

    Michael Hawes

    Michael Hawes chairs the firm's Federal Circuit appeals group and offers impressive experience handling high stakes appeals involving highly technical intellectual property issues.

    • Michael has a deep understanding of Federal Circuit practice. I trust his judgment as to what arguments will be compelling and persuasive before Federal Circuit.

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Ranked Individuals at Baker Botts L.L.P. (3)

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    Chad Walters

    Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeal Board

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    Eliot Williams

    Intellectual Property: Patent Trial and Appeal Board

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Members

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  • Suzanne M. Hengl

  • Paul J. Reilly

  • Christa Brown-Sanford

    Head of Department

  • Christopher J. Palermo

  • Julie Albert

  • Tyler Beas

  • Barton Showalter

  • Douglas Kubehl

  • Roger J Fulghum

  • Robert Maier

  • Lauren J. Dreyer

  • Clarke Stavinoha

  • David G. Wille

  • Scott Nelson

  • Liz Flannery

  • Paul R. Morico

  • Danny David

  • Katharine Burke

  • Cheryl A. Cauley

  • Wendy Wang

  • Luke Pedersen

  • G Hopkins Guy III

  • Kurt Pankratz

  • Jennifer Tempesta

    Head of Department

  • Lisa Kattan

  • Chad Walters

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  • Eliot Williams

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  • Michael Hawes

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