Hopkins Guy

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G. Hopkins Guy III — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Guy is a Palo Alto–based partner in Baker Botts' intellectual property group whose practice centers on patent, trade secret, and commercial contract litigation for technology clients. Publicly described technology experience spans web-based payment systems, social networking, graphics, LED device physics, wireless and satellite data communications and routing, semiconductor processing, packaging and equipment, microprocessors, power semiconductors, DIMM/flash memory, and solar/clean-tech. More recent work has been concentrated in video streaming (adaptive bitrate), SaaS, semiconductor processing and inspection, and satellite communications. His profile does not reflect pharma or life-sciences patent work; the docket is electronics, software, and hardware-oriented.

Side preference. The tracked case list shows a single appearance, on the plaintiff side, as trial counsel at Baker Botts — a limited sample that understates the breadth of his docket as reflected in public sources. The weight of the verifiable record places Guy primarily on the defense side for operating technology companies: his longstanding clients include DISH, DraftKings, Apple, Intel, Cisco, Applied Materials, Toshiba, eBay, and PayPal, and his headline results are defense wins (verdict vacatur, PTAB invalidation). He also handles affirmative enforcement for patent-owning operating companies, notably DISH Technologies' ABR streaming patent campaign against Aylo Freesites/MindGeek entities (D. Utah, filed 2024) and related suits against streaming and fitness-content defendants. The assessment here is that he is not an NPE/PAE-side specialist; he works the operating-company side of both postures.

Firm context and bar/education. Guy joined Baker Botts as a partner in 2012 and remains there. Before that he was at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (1996–2012), Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison (1992–1996), and the patent boutique Townsend and Townsend and Crew (1987–1992). His 2023 fee declaration in ClearPlay states he has appeared in roughly 188 patent cases, primarily as first-chair lead trial counsel; that figure is self-reported in a court filing rather than independently verified. Education: J.D., University of Richmond School of Law (1982); B.S., University of Virginia (1979). He is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO (Reg. No. 35,886) and is licensed in California (admitted 1986 per Super Lawyers; bar admission reported as 1982) with admissions in the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California and the Ninth Circuit.

Notable matters. His most prominent tracked matter is ClearPlay, Inc. v. DISH Network LLC (D. Utah, No. 2:14-cv-191), where a jury returned a $469 million infringement verdict against DISH in March 2023 and the district court granted DISH's motion for judgment as a matter of law less than two weeks later; the Federal Circuit affirmed the JMOL on May 26, 2026, ending the case. The reversal was widely reported as the largest patent verdict of 2023, and Law360 named Guy an Intellectual Property MVP that year. He also received the 2003 California Lawyer "CLAY" Award for IP work on Cisco Systems v. Huawei Technologies — reportedly involving the first U.S. case against a China-based technology company to obtain a worldwide trade secret preliminary injunction — and represented Facebook in the ConnectU / Winklevoss litigation. In the ITC, he was part of the team that prevailed for DISH on infringement and validity in Certain Fitness Devices (Inv. No. 337-TA-1265). For DraftKings he has been counsel in the Colossus/AG 18 patent disputes, including PTAB proceedings; the Federal Circuit affirmed the Board in AG 18, LLC v. DK Crown Holdings Inc. on April 15, 2026.

PTAB / IPR experience. Guy appears regularly in AIA post-grant proceedings on both sides. He has acted as petitioner's back-up counsel for DraftKings (e.g., IPR2022-01446/-01447, IPR2023-00262) and as patent-owner back-up counsel for DISH Technologies and Sling TV in the Aylo Freesites IPRs (IPR2024-00516, IPR2024-00940/-00941, among others), with much of that work running in parallel to district court litigation. His firm biography also cites covered business method review experience.

Note on sourcing: the "one tracked appearance" in the case list is far narrower than his public docket; the summary above relies on court filings, PTAB records, Federal Circuit opinions, firm and Chambers/Legal 500 profiles, and Law360/Daily Journal coverage. Figures such as the 188-case count and hourly rates come from his own fee declaration and should be treated as self-reported.