Kristin S. Tucker

Kristin S. Tucker — Patent Litigation Summary

Kristin S. Tucker (also docketed as Kristin Schneider Tucker) is an Atlanta-based commercial litigator with Baker Donelson (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC), where she serves as of counsel in the Commercial Litigation Group. Her practice is primarily commercial disputes — contracts, business torts, partnership/shareholder claims, insurance coverage, and real estate — with intellectual property limited to trade secrets and general IP matters; she is not a dedicated patent litigator. Both of her tracked appearances are in Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al. (N.D. Ga. No. 1:22-cv-04337), a patent infringement action over smart-TV and wireless content-streaming technology, where she represented the Hisense entities (one entry as attorney of record, one as local counsel — consistent with her Georgia-based role for an out-of-state defendant group). Her tracked docket is entirely defendant-side (2 defendant, 0 plaintiff), and she has no public record of representing NPEs/PAEs.

The Flexiworld matter is her only verifiable patent case of note. Flexiworld, an Oregon-based wireless-technology research and licensing company, sued Hisense and multiple affiliates over asserted patents covering wireless content output to smart TVs, soundbars, and projectors; the case was transferred from the Eastern District of Texas to the Northern District of Georgia, where Tucker entered her appearance in November 2022. The case settled approximately five months after filing, before any claim construction or merits ruling, and was administratively closed in April 2023 — a swift, pre-claim-construction resolution with no published verdict or appellate decision. There is no evidence of regular PTAB/IPR practice; publicly available commentary on the case indicates no inter partes review was filed on the record.

Tucker is admitted in Georgia (2010) and holds a B.A. from Agnes Scott College (Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law (2009); she has been named to Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2016–2021). Note on disambiguation: a separate attorney, Kristin Holmes Tucker of Dinsmore & Shohl (Chicago), practices patent prosecution and is not the same person; this summary concerns only Kristin S. Tucker of Baker Donelson. Her pre-Baker Donelson firm history could not be verified from available sources.