David G. Wille

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David G. Wille — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Wille is a registered patent attorney and IP litigator whose practice centers on patent, trade secret, copyright, and trademark litigation and appeals, with an engineering background (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin) that maps onto the technologies in his caseload: consumer electronics and semiconductors (Infineon v. Volterra), smart-home/IoT and thermostats (Lennox), video surveillance (DriveCam), e-commerce and NPE-asserted software claims (Kohl's, Brookshire Grocery), medical devices (Lexion Medical), and mechanical/industrial technology plus ITC trade-secret work (Manitowoc). Public bios also describe licensing, prosecution, and IP aspects of M&A.

Side preference. He works almost entirely for operating companies on the defense side. His tracked appearances are 0 plaintiff / 2 defendant. That pattern is consistent with his longer track record, which is defense-weighted (Lennox, Kohl's, Brookshire, DriveCam, Microtek), though he has also represented asserting parties — notably Lexion Medical as plaintiff and Infineon as plaintiff/counterdefendant in a semiconductor action — so he is not strictly defense-only.

Firm context. He is a partner at Baker Botts in the firm's Dallas/Plano, Texas offices and is identified as firmwide chair of the firm's Trade Secrets Litigation practice group. Baker Botts is the firm credited for the Portus Singapore v. Lennox matter in the tracked data. Note one data discrepancy: the tracked list attributes a Neomedia Technologies v. Amazon.com appearance to him at Perkins Coie as "of counsel," but his publicly reported firm affiliation through this period — including his appearance for Infineon in 2014 and the 2026 Lennox docket — is Baker Botts, and I could not independently verify a Perkins Coie appearance for him. That entry should be treated as unverified.

Notable cases and outcomes. His most frequently cited results: Lexion Medical v. Northgate/Smith & Nephew/Linvatec, where a jury found infringement and rejected invalidity, and the Federal Circuit affirmed the validity holding (2008) but vacated infringement on new claim construction before summary judgment of infringement was affirmed on remand; a related Lexion v. SurgiQuest false-advertising jury trial in D. Del. (April 2017) yielding $2.2M compensatory and $10M punitive damages for Lexion; and a Manitowoc ITC patent/trade-secret investigation that produced a ten-year exclusion order affirmed by the Federal Circuit, followed by the first district-court ruling giving collateral-estoppel effect to ITC trade-secret findings. In the tracked Portus Singapore Pte Ltd v. Lennox International (N.D. Tex. No. 3:26-cv-01328, filed April 24, 2026), he is counsel for defendant Lennox against smart-home remote-access patents ('526 and '097) asserted by a self-identified NPE; the case is at the pleading stage.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — he appears in post-grant proceedings, including as lead counsel for the patent owner in Yita LLC v. MacNeil IP LLC (IPR2020-01139), where he was substituted in as lead counsel in October 2020, and a Lexion IPR against Conmed/SurgiQuest in which, per his firm bio, all claims of the challenged patent were invalidated.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas (1992) and before the USPTO (Reg. No. 38,363), the Fifth and Federal Circuits, N.D./E.D. Tex., and the U.S. Supreme Court; J.D., University of Michigan Law School (1992, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif); law clerk to Judge Jerry Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law. He is also a named inventor on four U.S. patents.

Sourcing note: firm affiliation, admissions, education, and case descriptions are drawn from Baker Botts' own profile, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and the PTAB filing in IPR2020-01139; case outcomes are as described in the firm's profile and court/PTAB filings. The Perkins Coie/Neomedia attribution in the tracked list could not be confirmed.