Kyra Cooper

Kyra Cooper is an associate at McKool Smith, where her practice focuses on intellectual property and commercial litigation. She operates out of the firm's Dallas office and also works in Washington, D.C. under the supervision of D.C. Bar members. Her patent litigation experience spans both the plaintiff and defendant sides, as demonstrated by her roles in high-stakes disputes.

Ms. Cooper's specialty areas include telecommunications, particularly 5G technology, and video streaming technology. She was part of the team that secured a significant patent defense verdict for T-Mobile in a dispute concerning alleged infringement of a 5G telecommunications patent. On the plaintiff side, Ms. Cooper has represented Nokia Technologies Oy in patent infringement actions related to video technologies, including those used in streaming services and devices. These cases involve patents for video coding, compression, content delivery, and hardware.

Notable cases in her practice include her involvement as out-of-state counsel for Nokia in Nokia Tech Oy v. Paramount Skydance Corp et al., a lawsuit filed in August 2025 concerning 13 video patent claims in Delaware. She was also part of the broader Nokia legal effort that led to a settlement with Amazon in March 2025, resolving litigation over Nokia's video technology patents used in Amazon's streaming services and devices. Prior to the settlement, an Administrative Law Judge at the ITC had found some of Nokia's patents valid and infringed by Amazon. While patent disputes often involve Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings, the available information does not specify Kyra Cooper's regular involvement in IPR/PGR proceedings.

Ms. Cooper earned her J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School in 2022, where she was an Online Editor for The University of Chicago Law Review. She holds a B.S., summa cum laude, in Political Science from Truman State University, awarded in 2018. She is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas.