Anthony Dowell

Anthony Dowell is an accomplished patent litigator with experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants across a broad spectrum of technologies. His practice encompasses diverse areas, including mobile apps, software, vehicle tracking systems, consumer electronics, and digital data management. He also has experience in other fields such as contact lenses, asphalt plants, paper-making machinery, and pharmaceutical and life sciences litigation.

Dowell has demonstrated a particular focus on advocating for inventors and patent owners, assisting them in enforcing and monetizing their intellectual property rights. Notably, he served as counsel to ArrivalStar S.A., where he initiated over 120 lawsuits to enforce the company's patents, leading to licensing agreements with more than 300 companies and generating over $15 million in revenue. In that capacity, he also successfully prevented the consolidation of numerous patent infringement lawsuits in In re ArrivalStar S.A. Fleet Management System Patent Litigation. While his tracked appearances include one plaintiff-side engagement and two defendant-side engagements, his background indicates extensive work representing patent owners. He has operated his own boutique firm, Dowell Commercial Litigation, and is Of Counsel with McCaulley Law Group. He was also previously Of Counsel at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

His notable case experience includes serving as of counsel for Maxell, Ltd. in Maxell, Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., where Maxell initially secured a $111.7 million jury verdict for willful infringement of patents related to smart device technologies such as unlocking functions, locating recordings, and managing digital data. However, the federal court later overturned this verdict, granting Samsung's motion for judgment as a matter of law and invalidating claims in two of the asserted patents. As Lead Counsel, he represented defendants in APPLE, INC. v. Touchmusic Entertainment LLC, a patent infringement case filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and in Unified Patents PTAB Data v. Touchmusic Entertainment LLC. His experience also extends to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), where he successfully represented a patent owner in Sprint v. General Access Solutions, Ltd., IPR2017-01889, defeating a challenge to patent validity concerning communication protocols for wireless access networks. Earlier in his career, he successfully defended Weyerhaeuser in an arbitration over a patent licensing dispute, where plaintiff's claims for $42 million were denied.

Dowell earned his B.S. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Purdue University in 1989 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1994. He is admitted to practice in Illinois (1994) and Indiana (2003), and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and various district courts.