Adam Bradley Powell

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Adam Bradley Powell — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Powell is a litigation partner in Knobbe Martens' San Diego office with a broad IP litigation practice spanning patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, and antitrust. Firm and bar profiles describe his technical work as concentrated in medical devices, software, electronics, chemistry/biotechnology, and solar energy, and he serves as co-chair of the firm's antitrust practice group. His tracked matter fits the electronics/robotics side of that mix: the Avidbots/Brain Corporation dispute concerns autonomous floor-scrubbing robots (Avidbots Neo/Kas), robotic mapping and navigation patents (e.g., U.S. 10,274,325, 10,823,576), "repulsive force" obstacle-avoidance path planning, and an optical object-detection sensor patent (U.S. 10,728,436) — i.e., robotics and electromechanical hardware, not Wi-Fi-standards or pharma work.

Side preference. The tracked data shows one appearance on the plaintiff side and none on the defense side, but that sample is too thin to characterize him. Public filings and his own case list indicate a genuinely mixed practice for operating companies: he asserted claims for Masimo and Applied Medical, and defended Masimo in Apple's retaliatory Delaware suits and in a TCPA class action. There is no indication he works the NPE/PAE plaintiff's-bar model — his clients are product companies. In the Brain Corp. v. Avidbots Corp. litigation (N.D. Ill. No. 1:24-cv-12569), docket entries show him filing on behalf of Brain Corporation as plaintiff; note that the tracked caption reverses the parties, and that the parallel PTAB filings are captioned Avidbots Corporation et al. v. Brain Corporation (Avidbots as petitioner). Treat the "plaintiff" designation in the tracked list as caption-dependent rather than a reliable side signal.

Firm context. Knobbe Martens (Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP) is the only firm in the tracked data, and no prior firm history surfaced in public sources; the State Bar of California record shows him admitted in December 2010 with an active license and a Knobbe business address, consistent with practicing there since admission. He is not in-house.

Notable cases and outcomes. His most prominent work is the Masimo portfolio: the $466 million verdict against Philips (with Philips' own $169 million claim rejected; settled for $300 million plus a technology-integration agreement; Law360's "Top IP Award of 2014"); the ITC investigation 337-TA-1276 that produced a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist order against Apple Watches (in effect January 2024); the C.D. Cal. case in which a jury found the Apple Watch infringed and awarded more than $634 million; and the Delaware defense of Apple's mirror-image claims, where he was involved in Masimo's antitrust, patent, and false-advertising counterclaims and a complete trial win on claims against Masimo's current products. He also represented Applied Medical in an antitrust trial against Medtronic resulting in a $381 million jury award, and handled trade-secret litigation for Masimo/Cercacor and in the Sotera Wireless bankruptcy proceeding. These results are sourced to Knobbe's own profile and firm press releases; the $634 million Apple figure in particular rests on firm reporting rather than a court opinion I could verify independently.

PTAB / IPR experience. The Avidbots/Brain dispute generated a cluster of IPRs (IPR2025-01600 through -01604) challenging Brain's patents, all denied on discretionary grounds in early 2026. Public counsel records for those proceedings list Brian Buroker (Gibson Dunn) for Avidbots and Daniel Hughes (Knobbe) for Brain Corporation — I did not find Adam Powell listed as counsel of record, so his personal IPR/PGR track record is not well documented in available sources.

Bar / education. Admitted to the State Bar of California, December 2010 (Bar No. 272725); J.D., UC College of the Law, San Francisco (then UC Hastings), 2010; B.S., UC Santa Barbara — the undergraduate and law-school details come from a third-party Martindale profile and should be confirmed against firm materials.