Kevin Tottis

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Professional summary — Kevin Tottis (TottisLaw, Chicago)

Specialty / focus areas. Tottis is a Chicago IP and commercial litigator whose patent work sits inside a broader intellectual property litigation practice. Public practice descriptions and bar listings emphasize patent infringement, copyright, trademark, trade secret, licensing and appellate work; Chambers' spotlight profile on TottisLaw singles out copyright infringement and appellate litigation as the firm's particular strengths, and the firm's self-description is general "complex commercial and intellectual property litigation" rather than a patent-only practice. The one tracked patent matter is in robotics/autonomous systems — a dispute over autonomous mobile robots, covering robot navigation and obstacle avoidance, robotic mapping and localization, and optical/object-detection sensor apparatus. Tech areas outside that matter are not well documented in verifiable public sources.

Side preference. The tracked data shows a single appearance, coded to the plaintiff side (1 plaintiff / 0 defendant). In the publicly docketed litigation underlying it — Brain Corporation v. Avidbots Corp. et al., No. 1:24-cv-12569 (N.D. Ill., filed Dec. 6, 2024) — Tottis entered an appearance for Brain Corporation, the patent owner and an operating robotics company asserting infringement, not an NPE/PAE. Note a caption discrepancy: the tracking data captions the matter Avidbots Corporation v. Brain Corporation, while the federal docket runs the other way with Brain Corp as plaintiff; the tracked role (plaintiff-side, local/lead counsel) is otherwise consistent with the docketed appearance. On the available record, his patent-side work is patent-owner/operating-company enforcement rather than NPE prosecution or a repeat defendant-side defense practice.

Firm context. Tottis is managing partner of TottisLaw, the Chicago litigation boutique he founded in 1996; he is described as having started the firm after several years as a partner at a national law firm (the firm is not named in the sources reviewed). He has been an AIPLA board member, chaired its Copyright Committee, serves as an AAA arbitrator, and is PLI faculty.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. The most prominent tracked matter is the Brain Corp./Avidbots dispute. Brain Corp. asserted patents including U.S. 10,001,780 and 10,379,539 (navigation), 10,274,325 and 10,823,576 (robotic mapping), and 10,728,436 (optical detection) against Avidbots' Neo/Neo 2/Kas floor-scrubbing robots. Avidbots filed a family of IPRs (IPR2025-01600 through -01604) in late 2025; the Board issued discretionary denials between Feb. 24 and Mar. 23, 2026. Petitioner counsel of record was Brian Buroker and respondent counsel Daniel Hughes, so I found no verified PTAB/IPR or PGR appearance by Tottis himself in these proceedings — his involvement appears confined to the district court case. Separately, he was counsel of record for amicus AIPLA in the Federal Circuit's en banc Nantkwest, Inc. v. Iancu, 898 F.3d 1177 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (holding § 145 does not permit the PTO to recover attorneys' fees) — notable appellate work, though as amicus rather than party counsel. He has also appeared in copyright/fee litigation in the Seventh Circuit.

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois in 1986; also admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Sixth, Seventh and Federal Circuits, and several Illinois districts plus the E.D. Michigan. A.B. 1983 and J.D. 1986, University of Michigan.