Mr Douglas Kubehl > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
2001 ROSS AVENUE
DALLAS, TEXAS 75201-2980
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Douglas Kubehl
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner
Practice Group Co-Chair – IP Litigation (Firmwide)
Career
Mr. Kubehl is the firmwide co-chair of Baker Botts’ IP litigation patent group. He is a first chair trial and appellate lawyer specializing in patent and trade secret cases involving, for example telecommunications, software, electronics, optics, and semiconductors. Mr. Kubehl has particular expertise dealing with standard-essential patents and representing parties (both patent holder and defendants) in competitor cases as well as defending against ultra-complex patent aggregator cases. Outside of the courtroom Mr. Kubehl has significant licensing and technology due diligence experience.
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.
Education
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.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
The intellectual property team at Baker Botts L.L.P. has expertise spanning all industries, with in-depth knowledge of litigation strategy and the full range of IP issues. While acting for clients across a range of industries, the expertise of the team lies primarily in tech, acting for prominent tech companies including Samsung Electronics, Lyft, AT&T, Dell Inc and LG Electronics. Robert Scheinfeld in New York co-chairs the intellectual property department alongside Christa Brown-Sanford in Dallas. Focusing on IP litigation, Douglas Kubehl in Dallas and Roger Fulghum in Houston lead the firmwide practice. ‘Gifted trial attorney’ Hopkins Guy is another key lawyer in the team, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense