Cori C. Steinmann

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Cori C. Steinmann — King & Spalding (Counsel, Trial and Global Disputes; Austin/Dallas)

Specialty and focus. Steinmann is not a career patent litigator. Her King & Spalding bio describes a complex commercial and trial practice centered on products liability, toxic torts, business litigation, and construction, with jury trials in Texas, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and California. Her only tracked patent appearance — and the only patent case surfaced in her Law360 firm profile — is E-Vision Optics, LLC et al. v. Luxottica Group S.p.A. et al. (C.D. Cal. 8:23-cv-02013), a smart-eyewear case over electronic eyeglass frame, moisture-resistant eyewear, and eyewear docking-station patents, asserted against the Ray-Ban Stories and Ray-Ban | Meta products. Docket filings and discovery correspondence also place her among counsel in the Panasonic v. Getac design-patent litigation (C.D. Cal. 8:19-cv-01118), the OpenText/Webroot patent suits against AO Kaspersky Lab and Forcepoint (W.D. Tex.), and the Attentive Mobile v. Postscript patent dispute (D. Del.) — the technology mix is consumer electronics, wearables/optics, and software, but her role in those matters appears to be general trial and case-management support rather than patent-specific advocacy. This is inferred from filings; treat it as a working characterization rather than a stated practice focus.

Side preference. On the one tracked matter she is on the plaintiff side (1 plaintiff-side appearance, 0 defendant-side). That is consistent with the filings: she filed the original E-Vision complaint and the patent-report notice in C.D. Cal., and she is the King & Spalding contact on plaintiff-side discovery correspondence in the OpenText enforcement actions. Elsewhere she appears to sit with defendants (Getac, Postscript). The defensible summary is that she supports both enforcement and defense teams but has no documented standalone patent practice, and the small sample size makes any "side preference" claim weak.

Firm context. King & Spalding is the only firm in the tracked data and the only one consistently verified in public sources. I found no evidence of a prior firm in the patent-litigation context; her Texas bar admission dates to 2004 and her J.D. is from SMU Dedman School of Law (B.A., Political Science, UT Austin), so any earlier-career firm history would need to be confirmed directly rather than inferred. She is not in-house.

Notable case and outcome. In the tracked E-Vision v. Luxottica case, the court entered final judgment on August 17, 2026 in favor of Luxottica and against e-Vision on every cause of action in the First Amended Complaint — an adverse result for the client she represented. The parallel e-Vision campaign against Lenovo and Seiko Epson/Epson America (also filed by King & Spalding in C.D. Cal.) would be worth confirming for the same time period. On the defense side, press releases and verdict reports identify her as part of the King & Spalding trial teams that won defense verdicts for Johnson & Johnson in cosmetic talcum powder trials (including a 2025 Allegheny County defense verdict and a further J&J defense verdict reported in 2026). Those are toxic-tort, not patent, results.

PTAB / IPR. Luxottica filed a substantial IPR wave against the e-Vision patents (IPR2024-01030, -01069, -01070, -01071, -01072, and IPR2025-00216). The patent-owner powers of attorney and served counsel lists in those proceedings name other King & Spalding attorneys (Brian Eutermoser, Mikaela Stone, Ojeiku Aisiku, Christopher Campbell) — Steinmann does not appear. I found no IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearance attributable to her. Based on the available record, she should not be described as having PTAB experience.

Bar / education (sourced). Admitted in Texas (2004) and California; also admitted in C.D. Cal. and the E.D., N.D., and W.D. of Texas; J.D., SMU Dedman School of Law; B.A. Political Science, University of Texas at Austin. Note for disambiguation: C.D. Cal. docket entries list her as "Cori Cudabac Steinmann," and Law360 lists her office as Austin while the firm bio lists Dallas — the same person, with multiple King & Spalding office associations.