Niky R. Bagley

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Professional Summary — Niky R. Bagley

Specialty / focus areas. Bagley's patent work has centered on electronics and consumer-technology subject matter rather than life sciences or mechanical arts. Her tracked and reported matters involve smart-home/video-doorbell and IP-camera IoT systems (SB IP Holdings/SkyBell), asset-tracking and RFID hardware (Zebra Technologies v. OnAsset Intelligence), computer-graphics/gaming rendering patents (Infernal Technology v. Activision Blizzard), and power-conversion electronics (CogniPower PTAB proceedings). Her in-house portfolio at Toyota Motor North America is broader — IP and commercial litigation, plus attention to Section 337/ITC practice, where she has appeared on panels — so her automotive practice spans IP disputes generally rather than a single patent class. She does not appear to have a Wi-Fi-standard-essential-patent or pharma track record.

Side preference. Mixed, with more plaintiff/patent-owner work than the single tracked entry suggests. The one tracked appearance — Vivint Inc. v. SB IP Holdings LLC, where she was back-up counsel of record for SB IP Holdings at Cole Schotz — sits on the defendant side of that caption. But in the underlying E.D. Tex. litigation and parallel PTAB proceedings she represented the patent-holder/asserting side (SB IP Holdings, a SkyBell Technologies subsidiary), and elsewhere at Cole Schotz she represented plaintiffs including Intellectual Tech LLC and Infernal Technology LLC in assertion campaigns. She also has operating-company defense experience, e.g., representing Zebra Technologies in a patent action in the Northern District of Texas. Her current in-house role at an OEM is defense-oriented.

Firm context. Bagley is now in-house as Managing Counsel at Toyota Motor North America, Inc. — her first in-house position (reported 2025; she is listed as a module chair for the 2026 Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law in that capacity). Before that she spent several years as a Member/attorney at Cole Schotz P.C. in Dallas, and roughly nine years at Dallas IP boutique Buether, Joe & Carpenter. She began her litigation career as an assistant attorney general in the Washington State Attorney General's Office, then returned to Texas. She left Cole Schotz by mid-2024; her withdrawal as counsel of record in Intellectual Tech LLC v. Zebra Technologies (W.D. Tex.) was filed May 23, 2024.

Notable cases, PTAB/IPR, and credentials. Her most prominent matter by outcome is the SB IP Holdings/SkyBell video-doorbell litigation against Vivint, in which an Eastern District of Texas jury returned a $45.4 million willful-infringement verdict on October 23, 2023. Caveat: Bagley was counsel of record in the earlier phase of that case but was terminated from the docket on September 23, 2022, and was not part of the trial team of record at the verdict — the trial was led by other Cole Schotz attorneys. She has meaningful PTAB exposure as patent-owner-side counsel: she was first back-up counsel for Patent Owner CogniPower LLC in Fantasia Trading LLC v. CogniPower LLC (IPR2021-00069), and she is listed as respondent counsel for SB IP Holdings in the Vivint IPR series (e.g., IPR2022-00810, -00812, -00813, -00814). She also authored a Berkeley Technology Law Journal article on district courts' treatment of PTAB claim construction decisions (32 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 315, 2017). Bar/education: licensed in Texas (2011) and registered with the USPTO as a patent attorney (Reg. No. 67,829); JD, Seattle University School of Law (cum laude); LLM in IP, UC Berkeley School of Law; undergraduate degree from Texas A&M. She was recognized in Best Lawyers' 2023 list for Litigation–Intellectual Property and Trademark Law.

Note: the tracked case list contains only one appearance, so the side-preference and specialty conclusions above rest partly on docket records and firm/press reporting rather than on a large tracked sample.