Gregory S. Dovel

Gregory S. Dovel is a founding partner of the Santa Monica-based litigation boutique Dovel & Luner LLP, where he exclusively represents plaintiffs in high-stakes, contingency-fee litigation. His patent practice focuses on asserting patents for individuals and companies against large corporations, with experience in technology areas including software, networking, and electronics. The provided case list shows him representing patent holders on the plaintiff side in all tracked appearances.

Mr. Dovel's firm, which he co-founded in 1998 after leaving a partnership at Kaye Scholer, litigates exclusively for plaintiffs. His career is marked by several notable trial outcomes, including an $85 million jury verdict for SimpleAir Inc. against Google concerning push-notification technology and a settlement for Network-1 Technologies valued at over $100 million from Cisco Systems and others related to Power over Ethernet technology. The tracked cases involved representing patent assertion entities; in DataTreasury Corporation v. Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., the patents-in-suit concerning financial data processing were invalidated in a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceeding, a decision the Federal Circuit later affirmed. In TQP Development, LLC v. Chegg Inc., he represented an entity asserting patents related to data encryption.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Dovel clerked for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court, and for Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the Ninth Circuit. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and is a member of the State Bar of California.