Grant E. Kinsel Partner

Grant Kinsel protects the integrity and worth of patents held by some of the world’s largest technology companies, and defends those same companies from claims of patent infringement. Eschewing formulaic roadmaps, Grant’s litigation strategies are distinctive for their effectiveness, efficiency, and novelty, frequently resulting in early, pre-trial resolution and added value for his clients. Getting the right result in patent litigation requires a commitment to creativity, and Grant’s bottom-up approach ensures that the optimum strategy is deployed for each case. Grant designs a strategy—from initial discovery, to motion practice, and ultimately through trial and appeal—to achieve the optimum result tuned to the particular case, client, and facts.

Grant has extensive courtroom experience, prevailing for clients in the most patent-heavy dockets in district courts throughout the country, including the Eastern District of Texas, the Northern District of California, the District of Delaware, and the Central District of California. He has litigated patents in a vast range of technologies and industries, including the Internet of Things, radio-frequency identification, tracking and mapping systems, cloud and internet services, content provision, encryption and digital rights management. He has litigated patents from the most high tech—speech recognition and optical character recognition (OCR), semiconductors, LEDs and MEMS, optics, and high-end digital signal processing techniques—to low tech—toys, lighting systems, and sporting goods, with each case and each step along the way specifically considered and tailored to achieving the right result for the specific case.

Grant’s experience is much deeper than purely patent litigation. Grant has broad federal court litigation experience, including matters relating to design patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and unfair competition. He has also represented clients at the interface of the criminal law and intellectual property law, including investigations and litigation arising out of alleged criminal trademark infringement and theft of trade secrets.