Blake R. Davis

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Blake R. Davis — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Davis is a partner in Latham & Watkins' Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and Litigation & Trial Department, based in San Francisco, where he has practiced since roughly 2016 and was elected partner effective January 1, 2024. His practice runs to patent and trade secret litigation in U.S. district courts, the ITC, the PTAB, and the Federal Circuit. His technical background is electrical engineering, and the matters he handles cluster around hardware-adjacent and standards-based technologies: wireless power/charging, semiconductors and advanced packaging, OLED display, speech and video coding (including H.264/H.265 video codec SEPs), RF transmitters/receivers and generators, image processing, networking and Wi-Fi, cloud/cybersecurity, and medical devices. He does relatively little classic pharma/chemical work; the biotech-adjacent matters in his record (Abbott vascular and cardiac-monitoring cases) are device patents rather than pharmaceutical ones.

Side preference. He works both sides, which matches the tracked data (one plaintiff-side appearance as lead counsel, one defendant-side appearance as counsel). On the plaintiff/patent-owner side he has led offensive campaigns for Netgear, Orca Security, Overhead Door, FotoNation, and GlobalFoundries. On the defense side he has represented Paramount in the Nokia video-codec dispute and Abbott and Comcast in infringement suits. The tracked case list in this system is a narrow slice of a much larger docket — Latham's own profile describes him as regularly leading teams "representing both plaintiffs and defendants," so the 1–1 split should not be read as a side preference.

Notable matters. The tracked Nokia Technologies Oy v. Paramount case (D. Del., No. 1:25-cv-01054), asserting a large video-codec portfolio also litigated in Brazil, Germany, the UK, and the UPC, was terminated in March 2026 after Paramount moved to dismiss; a co-counsel profile describes the result as a dismissal for Paramount. Elsewhere he was on the Latham teams that secured: an ALJ initial determination (Aug. 6, 2026) that Asus and Plume infringed Wi-Fi routing patents owned by Estelgia and licensed to Netgear; Netgear's $135 million settlement with TP-Link in September 2024 following an ITC infringement win; exclusion orders for Netgear and for Overhead Door against Chamberlain; a defense win for Comcast on all eight asserted set-top-box patents; and invalidation of all asserted FlexStent claims against Abbott with a Federal Circuit Rule 36 affirmance.

PTAB/IPR experience. This is a high-volume part of his practice. He has appeared pro hac vice in numerous IPRs, including the LG Display OLED matters (e.g., IPR2020-00177), the Netgear/TP-Link proceedings (as patent owner's counsel, IPR2023-01469), and the InductEV–WiTricity wireless-charging campaign (IPR2023-01182, IPR2023-01208, IPR2024-00105, IPR2024-00140), where he argued the Board hearing for petitioner and the resulting invalidity findings were affirmed in WiTricity Corp. v. InductEV Inc., No. 23-1916 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 16, 2025). Federal Circuit brief argument in that appeal is attributed to colleague David Zucker.

Bar and education (reliably sourced from his own USPTO declarations and firm profile). Member, California Bar (No. 294360); admitted to the Federal Circuit and the C.D. Cal., N.D. Cal., and E.D. Tex. district courts. JD, Columbia Law School (2013); BS in Electrical Engineering & Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder (2009). No prior firm history is documented in the sources reviewed — he appears to have spent his entire post-law-school career at Latham & Watkins.