Brian Knapp

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Brian Knapp — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Disambiguation note: The only verified patent-litigation appearance is tied to a May 2015 YesVideo press release naming Brian Knapp as General Counsel of YesVideo, Inc. Other individuals named Brian Knapp practice in unrelated areas, so the career details below are drawn only from sources that connect this name to YesVideo or to Silicon Valley technology practice.

Specialty / focus and side of the docket. Knapp's tracked patent work is narrow: a single case, YesVideo, Inc. v. iMemories, Inc., No. 2:15-cv-00809 (E.D. Tex., filed May 21, 2015), asserting U.S. Patent No. 8,867,894 on online video editing and distribution of digitized home movies. The technology area is consumer/cloud video software — digitization, cloud editing, storage, and distribution to physical media and social channels — not Wi-Fi standards, pharma, or mechanical arts. He appears on the plaintiff/enforcement side only (1 of 1 tracked appearances, 0 defense-side), and the Stanford NPE Litigation Database classifies YesVideo as a "Product company" / practicing entity rather than an NPE or PAE. The posture is therefore best described as an operating company enforcing its own portfolio against a direct competitor, not NPE assertion work. No reexamination, settlement, or judgment terms were verifiable from public records; the case docket shows it closed on March 29, 2016, following a related 2016 Arizona action against the same defendant (YesVideo Inc. v. IMR16 Inc., No. 2:16-cv-00865, D. Ariz.).

Firm and in-house context. His tracked role is in-house, as General Counsel of YesVideo, and the public record does not show him appearing as outside counsel of record in litigation. Biographical aggregator profiles (Marketscreener and similar, which carry moderate reliability and are not firm-published) list earlier legal experience as an associate in the technology transactions group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and subsequent business-development roles at Loopt, AllBusiness.com, Kountermove, and, more recently, Amazon's Prime Video/Fire TV organization. Those non-YesVideo career details should be treated as unconfirmed unless corroborated by a firm or company source; the YesVideo general counsel title is well sourced.

PTAB / IPR experience and bar/education. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB proceeding involving him was identified in public search — with a single district court appearance, there is no evident PTAB practice to report. Aggregator profiles state a J.D. (cum laude) from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a bachelor's degree from William & Mary; I could not verify these against a bar directory, so they are offered with that caveat. Bar admission state and year are not reliably sourced and are omitted.

Overall read: a thin litigation record — one operating-company patent enforcement action defended through to closure — consistent with a transactional/IP-counsel and business-development career rather than a repeat patent trial practice.