James Lawrence Davis, Jr.

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James Lawrence Davis, Jr. — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Davis is a first-chair patent litigator whose practice centers on electronics and computer technology: semiconductors and analog circuits, wireless and standard-essential patents, consumer electronics, network security, and medical devices (he holds an undergraduate engineering background in electrical/computer engineering). Publicly reported matters include image-sensor patents, mesh networking (ITC and multi-forum), Bluetooth beacon/e-commerce technology, e-payment and mobile-wallet patents, audio processing, thermostats, and database/UI software. He is not a life-sciences/ANDA litigator, though he has appeared on the double-patenting issue that matters heavily to pharma patentees (below). He works across district courts, the ITC, the Federal Circuit, and the USPTO, and coordinates parallel foreign proceedings.

Side preference. The tracked dataset here contains a single appearance — Mozido, Inc. v. Apple Inc., on the defendant/petitioner side as lead counsel for Apple — so it does not by itself establish a pattern. His verifiable public record shows both sides: firm and Chambers descriptions state he "represents intellectual property owners and challengers," and his PTAB work runs for both petitioners and patent owners. The one tracked case is consistent with an operating-company defense practice rather than NPE/PAE-side prosecution of claims.

Firm context. Davis is a partner in Sheppard Mullin's Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's Silicon Valley (Menlo Park) office. He joined in September 2025 as part of the 21-attorney IP litigation group — led by former Ropes & Gray IP chair Steven Pepe, with partners David Chun, Kevin Post, and Matthew Shapiro — that moved from Ropes & Gray. Before that he practiced at Ropes & Gray, where earlier filings place him in the firm's Chicago office and later in East Palo Alto.

Notable matters. In the tracked case, Mozido, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (Fed. Cir. Nos. 24-1741, 24-1742), Davis argued for Apple and obtained Rule 36 affirmances (Dec. 8, 2025 and Feb. 11, 2026) upholding PTAB decisions invalidating claims of Mozido's virtual-wallet patent in IPR2022-01149/-01150 — the second appeal arising from the same family. He was counsel of record for Samsung as amicus in In re Cellect, LLC, 81 F.4th 1216 (Fed. Cir. 2023), the precedential decision holding that obviousness-type double patenting is assessed against a patent's expiration date after patent term adjustment; certiorari was later denied. His firm bio also credits him with an ITC win on non-infringement and invalidity across four mesh-networking patents, successful resolution of a SEP case in the Eastern District of Texas after full claim IPR institution, and multiple Federal Circuit affirmances and vacaturs; those descriptions are firm-supplied and client-anonymized, so outcomes are not independently confirmed here.

PTAB/IPR. This is the strongest-documented part of his practice. He has handled more than 250 post-grant proceedings (IPRs and ex parte reexaminations), is ranked Band 2 nationwide for PTAB work in Chambers USA, and was listed among the ten most active petitioner-side attorneys by Managing IP in 2020. He appears as lead counsel in current PTAB filings, for example Samsung's IPR2025-01252 against Omni MedSci.

Bar / education. B.S. with honors, University of Illinois; J.D. magna cum laude, University of Illinois College of Law. Registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 57,325); Federal Circuit admission date of May 9, 2017 appears in his court entry of appearance. State bar admissions are not confirmed in the sources reviewed.