Thomas R. Davis

Associate

Thomas R. Davis is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Intellectual Property Patent Practice. Mr. Davis's practice includes patent litigation, procurement, opinion work and licensing. His prosecution and legal opinion background includes work in the fields of computer hardware and networking, medical Web site development, streaming video technology, variations on cellular phone technology, secure financial business methods, foreign currency exchange methods, Internet-based securities trading, secure computer networks, data compression, Linux kernel and driver operation, and other software related business method patents. His litigation background includes hardware- and software-related technologies, including dynamic random access memory (DRAM) design and operation, mirrors and transparent optical properties, and optical barcode scanners. Mr. Davis was part of the team that secured a $440 million settlement for Intertrust in a patent infringement litigation involving digital rights management. He is currently working on a semiconductor design and manufacturing litigation and is part of the team asserting patents related to flash memory.

Mr. Davis received his J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in 2002. While in law school, he served on the International Law Review and was executive director for the Civil Trial Institute. He received his B.A. in engineering, with a focus on computer science, from Texas Tech University in 1999.

Mr. Davis is admitted to practice in Texas and New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas.