Christopher R. Pinckney

Christopher R. Pinckney is a patent litigation attorney with approximately 15 years of experience, currently serving as an Associate at Alavi Anaipakos. He primarily focuses on high-stakes intellectual property and patent infringement disputes. His practice areas encompass a range of technologies, including computer graphics, home appliances, HVAC equipment and controls, tokenized payment technology, telecommunication Quality of Service (QoS), time-sensitive networking, MIMO wireless technology, always-on DSP technology, automatic brightness control, wearable mobile technology, and variable-length coding and decoding for media data.

While his tracked court appearances consistently show him representing plaintiffs, his firm, Alavi Anaipakos, handles complex patent matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. Pinckney's experience includes representing patent holders in several disputes, such as Textile Computer Systems, Inc. v. Broadway National Bank d/b/a Broadway Bank, Fiserv, Inc., Fiserv Solutions, LLC, U.S. Bancorp, and U.S. Bank National Association d/b/a Elan Financial Services, related to tokenized payment technology, and X-Mobile Technologies LLC v. Apple Inc., concerning DSP and wearable mobile technology. He also secured a default judgment for a patent holder in American Patents LLC v. Shenzhen Tenda Technology Co., Ltd. regarding MIMO wireless technology. One prominent case listed in his current docket is Network-1 Technologies, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al., filed in the Eastern District of Texas in June 2025, where he represents the plaintiff.

Pinckney also has experience with Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings, having successfully represented a patent owner in an Inter Partes Review relating to network address caching technology (Unified Patents Inc. v. Plectrum LLC, IPR2017-1430). He previously contributed to the field by authoring "Reviewability of decisions to institute an inter partes review."

Before joining Alavi Anaipakos, which launched in May 2022, Pinckney was a senior associate in the intellectual property group at Baker Botts, focusing on patent litigation, and later a patent litigation attorney at Antonelli, Harrington & Thompson. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2006 and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, magna cum laude, from Clemson University. He is licensed to practice in Texas.