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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)
Baker Botts L.L.P. has a full-service intellectual property litigation team with expertise litigating patent infringement disputes both at trial and appellate level for major tech clients such as Abbott, AT&T and Cisco. The IP litigation group is co-chaired by Douglas Kubehl in Dallas and Roger Fulghum in Houston as well as New York-based lawyer Jennifer Tempesta, who focuses on patent litigation in the district courts and at the International Trade Commission, and Dallas partner Christa Brown-Sanford, who focuses on licensing and patent prosecution in the energy and tech spaces. Robert Maier is knowledgeable in all types of IP litigation. The group also includes patent litigator Katharine Burke in Washington DC. Sarah Guske has left the firm.
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 and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- 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
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- 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)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)