Michael D. Powell

Michael D. Powell is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, focusing his practice on patent infringement and related high-technology and complex commercial litigation. He joined the firm in 2006 and was elevated to partner in January 2012, following prior intellectual property litigation experience in Silicon Valley with Weil Gotshal & Manges and Thoits Love Hershberger & McLean.

Powell handles a diverse array of technologies, including lithium-ion batteries, live and video-on-demand streaming, semiconductors, flash memory devices, computer networks, high-speed data communications systems, circuit-simulation software, mobile telephone operating systems, and Internet-related technologies. While his tracked case appearances predominantly show plaintiff-side representation, he has experience acting as lead and co-lead counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants in patent infringement, trade secret, and other commercial litigation across federal courts and arbitration.

He has secured significant outcomes for clients, including serving as lead counsel for Voxer, Inc. in a patent infringement action against Meta Platforms, Inc. and Instagram, LLC, which resulted in a jury verdict of $174.5 million in damages and ongoing royalties. Powell also served as lead counsel for Ningde Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) in ZHUHAI COSMX BATTERY CO., LTD. v. Ningde Amperex Technology Limited, obtaining a jury verdict awarding ATL over $3.7 million in running royalty damages. Other notable representations include securing a $115 million settlement for ASM International in cross-border patent enforcement proceedings against Kokusai Electric, representing IBM in a patent infringement trial concerning blade server computer systems, and defending Google in a patent infringement action concerning distributed hypermedia applications.

Information directly linking Michael D. Powell to regular appearances in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings was not readily available in the sourced professional profiles. He is admitted to the State Bar of California (1999) and holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (1999), an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business (1998), and a B.A. in Chemistry & English from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1994).