Charles Davis

I'll research this attorney carefully — "Charles Davis" is a common name, so disambiguation matters.

Confirmed an Amazon in-house IP litigation counsel. Now verifying his case involvement and background.

Now verifying the tracked cases and outcomes, plus background.

Professional Summary — Charles Davis (Amazon.com, Inc.)

Specialty / focus areas. Mr. Davis's tracked docket is entirely Amazon-related and spans the technology stack behind Amazon's consumer products: voice assistants and natural-language processing (VB Assets, LLC v. Amazon.com Services LLC; Smart Speaker LLC v. Amazon.com Services LLC), streaming video and standards-essential patents (Amazon.com, Inc. v. Nokia Technologies Oy), audio/signal processing (Amazon.com, Inc. v. SoundClear Technologies LLC), targeted advertising and data (the AlmondNet campaign), and server-side software (his signed IPR petition on U.S. Pat. 6,118,449, a "server system and method for modifying a cursor image"). The through-line is Amazon product technology rather than pharma or mechanical arts. No single technical sub-specialty — e.g., Wi-Fi/SEP work specifically — is verifiable for him from the tracked cases.

Side preference. He is an operating-company in-house lawyer, not an NPE-side prosecutor. The 3 plaintiff / 3 defendant split reflects Amazon's posture in each dispute rather than a personal side preference: he defends Amazon in infringement suits, and appears for Amazon as plaintiff/petitioner in its own affirmative campaigns (the Nokia SEP/FRAND dispute and the SoundClear IPR challenges). All six tracked appearances are on the same client's behalf.

Firm context. He is in-house at Amazon.com, Inc. USPTO filings list his title as "Corporate Counsel, IP Litigation" in 2023–2024 and "Senior Corporate Counsel – IP Disputes" as of January 2026 — indicating an in-house promotion path rather than a law-firm career. No prior firm, law school, or bar admission could be reliably sourced; note that he executes Amazon's PTAB powers of attorney as a corporate officer, and no USPTO registration number appears in those documents, so a registered-practitioner or state-bar record could not be confirmed. Detecting his prior employment would require a more targeted search, and the commonness of the name (multiple "Charles Davis" IP practitioners exist, including a testifying damages consultant) makes unverified attributions risky.

Notable cases, outcomes, and PTAB/IPR activity. AlmondNet, Inc. et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. is the most headline-worthy tracked matter: AlmondNet won a reported $122 million jury verdict against Amazon in W.D. Tex., and Judge Albright denied Amazon's renewed JMOL on infringement and §101 invalidity (edtexweblog; I could not tie that verdict to a specific docket entry for Mr. Davis's appearance). In the collateral PTAB proceeding on the '398 patent, Amazon's November 2022 petition was denied institution on June 5, 2023 as time-barred under §315(b) — an adverse result on the IPR side. Amazon.com, Inc. v. Nokia Technologies Oy was a multi-jurisdiction SEP/FRAND dispute involving Amazon's video device and streaming businesses (argued by Sheppard Mullin's Martin Bader for Amazon), which the parties settled in spring 2025. Outcomes in VB Assets and Smart Speaker were not verifiable in the available sources. On the PTAB side, he appears regularly as Amazon's authorized signatory on IPR powers of attorney — including Amazon.com, Inc. v. Lexos Media IP, LLC (IPR2023-01001), Amazon.com, Inc. v. Nokia Technologies Oy (IPR2024-01043), and an Amazon.com Services LLC petition filed in January 2026 — so he is a recurring in-house overseer of Amazon's IPR/PGR docket, though as client representative rather than named PTAB counsel of record.

Sourcing caveats. Titles, POA signatures, and case names are drawn from USPTO PTAB filings and the docket search results above; the $122M AlmondNet verdict and the Nokia settlement are from secondary reporting rather than primary documents reviewed here. Bar admissions, education, and prior employment are not established and are omitted rather than guessed. IPR2024-01043 and the SoundClear petitions were signed by other Amazon in-house counsel (Ajeet Pai) or outside counsel; Mr. Davis's participation in those specific matters rests on the tracked-appearance list, which I could not independently corroborate in every instance.