Aaron Davidson

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Aaron Davidson — patent litigation practice summary

Specialty / focus. Davidson is a Dallas-based Member in Cole Schotz's Litigation and Intellectual Property Departments, ranked Band 6 for IP in Texas by Chambers. His practice is IP and complex commercial litigation broadly — patent infringement, trademark, trade dress, copyright and trade-secret disputes — with a self-described concentration in the life sciences sector (including pharmaceutical product-liability and government-investigation work) and representations ranging from semiconductors and consumer electronics to marine lighting and IT services. The one tracked patent matter sits in the connected-home / video-surveillance technology space (video doorbells, IP cameras, smart-home accessories). He is also a first-chair trial lawyer in federal and state court jury trials, arbitrations and preliminary-injunction hearings, per his firm bio and the Chambers editorial, and has begun serving as a mediator.

Side preference. The structured data show a single tracked appearance on the defendant side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), so any "preference" is really a sample-of-one. That tracked case — Vivint, Inc. v. SB IP Holdings, LLC (E.D. Tex., consolidated from a C.D. Cal. declaratory-judgment action) — is a declaratory-judgment suit brought by Vivint against the patent holder, meaning Davidson's client (SB IP Holdings, a SkyBell Technologies subsidiary) was procedurally the defendant even though it was the patent-owning party and the parallel infringement plaintiff. His broader documented record cuts both ways: firm-bio matters include defending a multinational technology/telecom company and a semiconductor manufacturer accused of infringement (defeating a nine-figure damages claim, per prior-firm matters), while he also helped prosecute infringement claims for a patent owner. Net: a defense-leaning but genuinely mixed patent practice, not a dedicated NPE/PAE prosecutor.

Firm context and notable matters. Davidson joined Cole Schotz's Dallas office in April 2019 as part of a four-lawyer IP group led by him and Gary Sorden, arriving from Dallas IP boutique Klemchuk LLP, where he was a managing principal. Before that he spent roughly 17 years at Baker Botts (via a brief stint at Munck Wilson Mandala). His most prominent tracked matter is the SB IP Holdings / Vivint dispute: he was a member of the Cole Schotz trial team (led by Sorden) that won a $45.4 million jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas on October 23, 2023, after the jury found Vivint willfully infringed two video-doorbell patents held by SkyBell/SB IP Holdings (Case No. 4:20-cv-00886). The judge subsequently declined to enhance the award (August 2024). The related declaratory-judgment action closed in August 2025 on a non-merits basis, and the parties' joint stipulations of voluntary dismissal ended the associated Federal Circuit appeals (Nos. 2024-1271 et al.) in July 2025.

PTAB / IPR experience. The Vivint-SB IP proceeding had a substantial PTAB component — a family of roughly ten IPRs (e.g., IPR2022-00810 through -00813, -01352, -01364, -01365, -01449) in which the Board issued final written decisions finding all challenged claims unpatentable in several cases. However, the Cole Schotz attorneys of record appearing for the patent owner in those IPRs were Gary Sorden, Kumar Vinnakota and Gail Ashby; I found no source confirming Davidson personally as IPR/PGR counsel of record or arguing at a PTAB hearing. Based on available sources, his documented courtroom work is in district court, so his IPR participation (if any) is not clearly established.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas (1998; Texas Bar No. 24007080); J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 1998, where he was a student writing editor on the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Sources: Cole Schotz firm bio and press releases, Chambers USA, Law360, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, New Jersey Law Journal/Texas Lawbook coverage of his 2019 move, and the PTAB/PACER dockets in the SB IP v. Vivint matters.