Josh Budwin

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Josh Budwin — Patent Litigation Profile

Focus areas. Budwin's practice centers on high-technology patent disputes, particularly standards-based wireless and video technologies. Publicly reported matters include cellular and Wi-Fi standards (LTE, WCDMA/3G, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, 802.11), video coding and streaming, digital television/interactive program guides and DVR technology, enterprise software (pricing software), and medical devices (balloon angioplasty catheters and stents), along with trade-secret and copyright work. He holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and worked on an engineering track before law school, which underlies the technically heavy docket. The one tracked appearance in the structured list — Nokia Technologies Oy v. HP, Inc., a plaintiff-side assertion filed in the District of Delaware in October 2023 and dismissed as settled in November 2024 — is consistent with that wireless/consumer-device profile.

Side preference. The tracked data shows 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side appearances, and the broader public record skews the same way: he has acted for patent owners and licensors such as Rovi/TiVo (now Adeia), ParkerVision, InterDigital, Versata, Droplets, Medtronic, and Nokia-as-plaintiff. That said, he is not purely one-sided — he has defended AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Ericsson, and Nokia in IPCom's EDTX campaign, defended T-Mobile against Daingean Technologies, and represented ZeniMax and Rockstar Consortium on the defense side. Reporting on his September 2026 firm launch quotes him emphasizing representation of patent owners and willingness to take contingency work, while the new firm markets itself as handling "both sides of the docket." On balance: plaintiff/patent-owner-leaning, with substantial defense experience.

Firm context and notable matters. He spent roughly two decades at McKool Smith (Austin office, later principal), which is the firm of record on his tracked case. In September 2026 he and three other former McKool Smith principals — Richard Kamprath, Kevin Burgess, and John Campbell — launched Budwin Kamprath Burgess & Campbell, an IP boutique with offices in Austin, Dallas, and Marshall (per PRNewswire, The Texas Lawbook, and Law360). Verifiable outcomes include three successive ITC wins for TiVo/Rovi against Comcast (Inv. Nos. 337-TA-1001, -1103, -1158) yielding exclusion and cease-and-desist orders, a 3-0 precedential Federal Circuit affirmance of the Rovi ITC win (No. 18-1450, March 2020, cert denied June 2020), and a 3-0 precedential Federal Circuit reversal in favor of ParkerVision against Qualcomm (No. 22-1755, September 2024), which he argued. He also worked on the Versata v. SAP verdict affirmed on appeal, a Medtronic v. Boston Scientific catheter verdict, the $15M Droplets v. Sears/Overstock verdict (settled post-verdict), and InterDigital's global video-compression/streaming dispute with Disney, where the team obtained injunctions in the UPC and in German and Brazilian courts. A firm bio claims plaintiff-side jury verdicts in his clients' favor exceeding $1 billion; that figure comes from his own firm's materials and is not independently verified here.

PTAB/IPR and bar. He does appear in PTAB proceedings, though that is a secondary venue relative to district court and the ITC — for example, as counsel seeking pro hac vice admission for patent owner RightQuestion in Samsung v. RightQuestion, IPR2022-00251, and in the Kinaxis v. Blue Yonder IPRs (IPR2021-01205, IPR2021-01318, both filed 2021). He has also co-authored IAM commentary on USPTO post-grant practice (February 2026). Bar: admitted in Texas (2005); J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law (2005); admitted before the Federal Circuit and the Texas federal district courts. Note that the tracked case list reflects a single appearance at McKool Smith, so the fuller record above rests on firm bios, court filings, and legal-press reporting.