Brian L. King

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Brian L. King — patent litigation summary

Brian L. King is a Member in Cole Schotz P.C.'s Dallas office, where his practice centers on commercial and intellectual property litigation, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and breach-of-contract matters. He is described by the firm as a trial attorney who handles all phases of litigation—discovery, fact and expert depositions, Markman briefing and hearings, dispositive motions, trial, appeal, and mediation. His patent work has focused on consumer smart-home and security technology (video doorbells, IP cameras, and related monitoring systems) and on window-shade/automation technology, rather than pharma or standard-essential Wi-Fi work.

Side preference. His tracked appearance record here shows 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side case, and in the tracked matter—Vivint Inc. v. SB IP Holdings LLC (a declaratory-judgment action transferred from the Central District of California to the Eastern District of Texas)—he represents SB IP Holdings, the patent owner, in the defensive posture of that DJ suit. His broader practice is genuinely mixed: the firm bio notes he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants across the E.D. Tex., W.D. Tex., N.D. Tex., S.D.N.Y., E.D. Va., and N.D. Cal. In practice his patent-owner work has skewed toward smaller technology companies and inventor/NPE-side clients (SB IP Holdings, GeigTech East Bay, EyeTalk365) rather than large operating-company defendants.

Firm and PTAB context. King joined Cole Schotz in April 2019 as part of a four-lawyer Dallas IP team (with Aaron Davidson and Gary Sorden) recruited from Klemchuk LLP; he has since become a Member. Earlier in his career he was an associate at Baker Botts (Houston) and Winstead PC (Austin), and counsel at Klemchuk LLP. He has PTAB experience on the patent-owner side: he was admitted pro hac vice as back-up counsel in GeigTech East Bay LLC, PGR2020-00013, and appears in the Cole Schotz patent-owner team on the SB IP Holdings IPR/PGR family (including the IPR2022-00810 through -00814, -01364, -01365, and -01449 proceedings challenging the video-monitoring patent family).

Notable matters and credentials. The most prominent matter is the SB IP Holdings / Vivint dispute: an Eastern District of Texas jury found in October 2023 that Vivint willfully infringed two video-doorbell patents and awarded roughly $45.4 million, an award the court declined to enhance in August 2024. The related IPR appeals were voluntarily dismissed by joint stipulation in July 2025. (King appears on the Cole Schotz patent-owner team led by Gary Sorden; the public record confirms his counsel status but does not single him out as lead trial counsel.) He is admitted to practice in Texas (2006); J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 2006 (with honors); B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1999 (with honors). I did not find a verified record of USPTO patent-bar registration, so his PTAB appearances appear to be pro hac vice.