Britton F. Davis
King Spalding LLP
Britton Davis is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation group of Cooley's Litigation Department. He joined the Firm in 2012 and is resident in the Colorado office. Mr. Davis' practice focuses on patent disputes in cases involving complex technologies. Mr. Davis has experience in all phases of patent litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, from initial diligence investigations, through trial and appeals. He also has experience representing both patent owners and petitioners before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board in post grant proceedings under the AIA, including helping to secure rare complete patent owner wins in two inter partes review proceedings on all claims under review. Mr. Davis also has experience with trademark litigation, trade secret litigation, securities fraud class actions, ERISA class actions, FACTA class actions, and corporate derivative actions, as well as experience representing clients in connection with governmental investigations and various commercial matters. Mr. Davis is a contributing editor to Cooley's PTAB digest, a leading resource which tracks and analyzes PTAB decisions, and has written about PTAB practice and the intersection with Constitutional Due Process and the APA. Prior to joining Cooley, Mr. Davis was an associate at Hogan Lovells in Denver, where his practice was focused on technology transfer transactions and intellectual property licensing, protection and commercialization. Prior to that, he worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Seattle, where his practice focused on intellectual property and securities class action defense litigation. Prior to beginning his legal career, Mr. Davis worked as an engineer for Veeco Instruments Inc., in the Metrology & Instrumentation Group. At Veeco, he designed, built, and implemented new products and product improvements in Veeco's research-focused line of atomic force microscopes. His product design experience covers mechanical, optical, and electrical systems; programmable semiconductor devices; and design for manufacturability and cost reduction. Mr. Davis earned his JD, with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law and his BS, with high honors, in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr.Davis is admitted to practice in Colorado and Washington.
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