Kevin Alexander Smith

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Attorney Summary — Kevin Alexander Smith

Note on sourcing and disambiguation. The tracked dataset contains a single appearance (defendant side, "counsel," at Quinn Emanuel), with the case name omitted. This summary supplements that entry with publicly verifiable records. "Kevin A. Smith" is a relatively common name, and a separate attorney by that name practices at MoloLamken and has been listed at Paul Hastings; the profile below is anchored to State Bar of California record No. 250814 (Quinn Emanuel, San Francisco), which is the identification consistent with the federal-court filings cited, so the MoloLamken/Paul Hastings material is excluded as unverified for this individual.

Specialty / focus areas. Smith's verifiable docket work is patent litigation on the defense side, concentrated in electronics and semiconductor technology. He was on the Quinn Emanuel team representing Fairchild Semiconductor/ON Semiconductor in the long-running Power Integrations v. Fairchild Semiconductor dispute over power-supply controller circuitry, and in Apple v. Motorola (W.D. Wis.) he appeared pro hac vice for Motorola. He has also appeared for HTC and Samsung in the Smartflash patent litigation (E.D. Tex.) and, more recently, was listed as counsel in Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. v. Zhuhai CosMx Battery Co., No. 25-1037 (2025). Public directory listings describe his practice areas as intellectual property litigation, appellate, and antitrust litigation, which is consistent with a patent-heavy, technology-oriented docket rather than pharma/Hatch-Waxman work. A third-party analytics profile attributes to a "Kevin A. Smith" cases across communications, semiconductor/optics, mechanical, and design categories, but because that profile may aggregate a different attorney of the same name, I treat those technology tags as unverified.

Side preference. Based on the tracked data, Smith sits on the defense side — 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance — and the verifiable docket history supports that orientation: he has represented accused infringers and technology operating companies (Fairchild/ON Semiconductor, Motorola, HTC, Samsung) rather than asserting patents for NPEs/PAEs. There is no verified record here of plaintiff-side assertion work.

Firm context. Smith is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in its San Francisco office (50 California Street). The State Bar and docket records place him at Quinn Emanuel in San Francisco. I found no well-sourced record of prior law firms in his patent litigation career; the Paul Hastings/MoloLamken references appear on analytics pages that may conflate him with a different Kevin A. Smith.

Notable cases / outcomes. The most prominent verifiable matter is Power Integrations, Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor Int'l, Inc., where he was counsel of record on Fairchild's appellate briefs in the Federal Circuit and its certiorari briefing in the Supreme Court. There, the Federal Circuit affirmed infringement but vacated a nine-figure damages award, holding the patentee failed to apportion damages and could not invoke the entire-market-value rule — a decision the firm described as significant to the law on the EMVR. His appearances in Apple v. Motorola, Smartflash, and the 2025 Ningde Amperex v. CosMx Battery matter are documented in dockets but I could not verify specific outcomes attributable to him personally.

PTAB / IPR experience. Smith appears in at least one PTAB proceeding — he is listed as counsel for HTC and Samsung in the covered business method review CBM2015-00064 (Smartflash). That single appearance does not establish a regular IPR/PGR practice, and I found no evidence he is a frequent petitioner or patent-owner representative before the Board.

Bar / education. Admitted in New York (2005) and California (2007); registered with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and several district courts. J.D., University of Michigan Law School (2004); B.A., University of Michigan (2001). (Sources: State Bar of California; Martindale; Super Lawyers.)

Caveats. The tracked appearance count (1) is far smaller than the docket history suggests, so the dataset is likely incomplete for this attorney. Several potentially relevant details — current title confirmation from the firm's own bio page, a full list of IPR/PGR matters, and any trial verdicts attributable to him individually — could not be verified within available sources and should be confirmed against the firm website and PACR/PTAB dockets before relying on them.