Keith R Hummel

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Keith R. Hummel is Co-Chair of Cravath's Intellectual Property Practice. He has extensive experience litigating complex commercial, intellectual property and antitrust disputes for plaintiffs and defendants in diverse fields, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, home automation, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, coating systems, and wine and spirits.

Known as an “excellent trial lawyer” and praised as “ingenious, resourceful, resolute and unflagging—there is nothing he cannot do when it comes to complex legal conflict,” Mr. Hummel is consistently recognized as one of the country’s leading practitioners in the intellectual property arena, particularly in critical multi‑jurisdictional patent disputes. (Chambers USA; IAM Patent)

Career

Co-Chair of Cravath's Intellectual Property Practice; partner since 1997. Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1990; Order of the Coif; magna cum laude); University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1987).

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