Douglas Kubehl

Practice Areas

Patent and trade secret trials, appeals, and licensing.

Career

Doug Kubehl is Baker Botts’ firmwide co-chair of its patent litigation practice. He is a first-chair trial lawyer with thirty years of experience handling complex patent litigation and licensing throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Mr. Kubehl has conducted over 200 patent cases, earning jury verdicts for both patent holders and defendants, as well as securing over 20 summary judgment rulings of non-infringement. Last year Doug led teams defeating $1 Billion in damages claims in cases against our clients.

Doug holds a dual electrical and computer engineering degree and excels at turning immensely complex technology issues into understandable and persuasive summary judgment and trial narratives. Doug has litigated telecommunications, semiconductor, electronics, security, and cloud computing standard essential patent issues for decades. That experience, coupled with the firm’s deep expertise in energy technology, has positioned Doug and the firm’s patent litigation practice ideally to excel in today’s cases involving automotive, battery, solar, and data center technologies.

Outside of the courtroom Mr. Kubehl has significant licensing and technology transaction experience.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas; U.S. Courts of Appeals for Fifth and Federal Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern Districts of Texas; US Patent and Trademark Office; DBA Foundation Fellow.

Personal

JD (magna cum laude, order of the coif), University of Minnesota Law School, 1996; BS (with distinction), electrical and computer engineering, University of Wisconsin,1993.

Publications

Creative Defense Strategies in EDTX Patent Litigation (Private CLE given October 2025, December 2025, February 2026)

Latest Trends in Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in U.S. Patent Litigation (Pannel Discussion) (October 2025)