Christian W. Conkle

Christian W. Conkle is a patent litigation attorney at Russ August & Kabat, where he is a member of the firm's intellectual property and litigation & trial groups. His practice areas include patent litigation across various high-technology sectors. The cases he has handled involve technologies such as semiconductors, enterprise software, cloud services, and specialized scientific instruments, as evidenced by his appearances in matters concerning companies like Amazon Web Services, NXP Semiconductors, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Apple, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Oracle.

Conkle primarily represents plaintiffs in patent disputes, with 13 tracked plaintiff appearances against 5 defendant appearances. He was part of the trial team that secured a jury verdict of patent infringement for client Nanology Alpha LLC against WITec Wissenschaftliche Instrumente Und Technologie GmbH in July 2018, involving a patent for a scanning probe/optical microscope, where the client was awarded a 5% royalty in damages. His case experience includes representing clients such as Redstone Logics LLC, VirtaMove Corp., and Cobblestone Wireless LLC.

His experience extends to Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings, including a pro hac vice appearance in IPR2024-01315, BOE Technology Group Co., LTD. v. Optronic Sciences LLC, where he represented the patent owner. He was admitted to the State Bar of California on December 2, 2015. Conkle earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2015 and also holds a B.A. in Music from Grinnell College and an M.A. in Musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.