Kevin Dam

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Professional Summary — Kevin T. Dam (Banner & Witcoff)

Practice focus. Mr. Dam is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 70,982) based in Banner & Witcoff's Chicago office. His practice is described by the firm as spanning patent prosecution, patent and trademark litigation, and related counseling, with an undergraduate background in biology/biochemistry (B.A., Northwestern University) and a J.D. (cum laude, Washington University School of Law), plus a judicial internship with Judge Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His tracked litigation work is concentrated in footwear and consumer-product patents, particularly Nike's knitted-upper/FLYKNIT footwear portfolio — a mechanically oriented technology area rather than pharma or software. His prosecution-side USPTO filings skew toward telecommunications/standards-adjacent technologies (recent applicant affiliations include Nokia Technologies Oy, Nokia Corporation, Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy), along with university technology transfer (Northwestern University) and one filing associated with Provenance Asset Group, a Nokia-derived patent monetization entity.

Side preference. He works both sides, though the tracked record leans slightly plaintiff-side (2 plaintiff appearances vs. 1 defendant). His most visible work is as counsel to Nike as a patent owner/asserting party, and the tracking includes one plaintiff-side appearance as "Attorney for Plaintiff." There is no indication in the tracked cases of a dedicated NPE/PAE plaintiff practice; his plaintiff-side work is on behalf of operating companies.

Firm context. All three tracked appearances are with Banner & Witcoff, where he joined as an associate in 2017 (firm announcement, November 2017). Before that he worked in Northwestern University's Innovation and New Ventures Office, progressing from intern to Invention Specialist to Intellectual Property Associate. No prior law-firm history for him is confirmed in the sources reviewed. He is not in-house.

Notable matters and PTAB/IPR activity. In Akeva L.L.C. v. Nike, Inc. (M.D.N.C., No. 1:09-cv-00135), the court granted summary judgment of non-infringement for Nike on July 8, 2019; Banner Witcoff's announcement names Mr. Dam among the Chicago attorneys representing Nike, and the docket for the ensuing Federal Circuit appeal lists him as counsel for Nike. He also appears on the Nike side of the adidas–Nike FLYKNIT disputes: the tracked Adidas AG v. Nike, Inc. matter (defendant side) corresponds to the footwear-manufacturing patent litigation in which adidas's IPR challenges failed on obviousness and the Federal Circuit affirmed (Adidas AG v. Nike, Inc., 963 F.3d 1355 (Fed. Cir. 2020)), though the appellate briefs list other Banner Witcoff attorneys as counsel of record. He is likewise among counsel listed for Nike in the Nike, Inc. v. Puma footwear litigation (D. Mass.) and appears as backup counsel in PTAB proceedings, including an IPR involving U.S. Patent No. 6,973,746 in which Nike was patent owner — so this reflects occasional PTAB support rather than a volume IPR/PGR practice.

Sourcing note: the details above come from Banner Witcoff's 2017 new-associate announcement, the firm's case announcements, USPTO registered-practitioner data (Reg. No. 70,982), and PTAB/Federal Circuit filings. His specific state bar admissions, current title (associate vs. more senior role), and any trial-level results beyond the matters above are not confirmed by the sources reviewed. A separate Banner Witcoff attorney with a similar name (Kevin C. Keenan) appears in search results; the profile above is limited to Kevin T. Dam.