Adam Peter Daniels

Specialty / focus. Adam Peter Daniels is a principal in Polsinelli LLP's Intellectual Property practice in Los Angeles. A former aerospace engineer with an electrical-engineering background (B.S.E.E./computer engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute), he handles patent and trademark litigation, prosecution, USPTO post-grant challenges, licensing, and technology transactions. His tracked docket is concentrated in consumer-electronics interface technology — touchscreen, proximity/gesture, and interactive display systems — with more recent web-verified work involving enterprise data-management software. His firm-published bio notes he represents clients from startups to big tech and financial institutions.

Side preference. Daniels works both sides. His two tracked appearances are both in the Power2B v. Samsung dispute: one as plaintiff's lead counsel asserting Power2B's interface patents in Texas district court, and one as lead counsel for Power2B (patent owner) defending against Samsung's inter partes reviews — a 1-1 plaintiff/defendant split. His plaintiff-side work skews to patent monetization for Power2B, a Los Angeles startup licensing touchless-interface patents; he also represents operating companies (e.g., appearing pro hac vice for Jack Henry & Associates in a 2026 declaratory-judgment action against DigitalDoors in the W.D. Mo.). Prior firm experience includes Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP, per his professional profiles.

Notable matters / outcomes. The Power2B–Samsung campaign is his signature matter: roughly six years of litigation and multiple IPRs (including IPR2021-01190, -01239, and -01257) with several Federal Circuit appeals. Results were mixed. In Samsung Electronics Co. v. Power2B, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2025, Nos. 23-1629, -1631, -1753, -1745), the court reversed the PTAB's "detector assembly" claim construction and remanded dependent claims while affirming invalidation of proximity-sensing claims; in another appeal (No. 23-2122) the Federal Circuit affirmed cancellation of Power2B's '369 patent. Per Korean press (THE Biz, Aug. 21, 2026), Samsung and Power2B filed a stipulation of dismissal in the Texas litigation, ending the dispute on undisclosed terms. He appears regularly in IPR/PGR work — PTAB hearings, backup-counsel designations, and PTAB-derived Federal Circuit appeals — making AIA post-grant practice a core strength.

Bar / education. J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law (2010); admitted in California (2014), Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York; registered before the USPTO (Reg. No. 66,681); named a Super Lawyers Rising Star 2013–2023.