Overview
Kevin Schubert is a principal in McKool Smith's New York office. He focuses his practice on patent litigation and has helped clients obtain over $1 billion in settlements and judgments over his career. For the past fifteen years, he has represented both patent owners and defendants in high-stakes patent litigations throughout the United States. He also maintains an active Inter Partes Reviews (“IPR”) practice before the Patent Office.
In 2024, IAM named Kevin as one of the world’s top 300 IP strategists and described him as having a “stellar reputation among his peers” and having secured “major wins for big name clients when the stakes are at their highest.”
Recently, Kevin has been the lead attorney in patent litigations for SEVEN Networks, LLC and Clear Imaging Research, LLC against leading smartphone manufacturers, the lead attorney for an independent inventor in a breach of contract dispute against a patent assignee, and the lead technical attorney for the defendant Hillman in Hy-Ko Products Company LLC v. The Hillman Group, Inc. (E.D. Tex.), where he examined and cross-examined several witnesses regarding key duplication technology at the 2022 trial. Kevin was also part of the team that obtained trial verdicts of $145 million and $85 million for client Wi-LAN in Wi-LAN v. Apple (S.D. Cal.) in 2018 and 2019, respectively, in a patent case related to 4G Voice over LTE (“VoLTE”) technology.
Kevin frequently writes and speaks about Intellectual Property. He is also is an active participant with the Licensing Executive Society (“LES”) and moderates a panel of patent licensing executives at the LES annual event each year.
Before law school, Kevin worked as a patent examiner in Washington, D.C., at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the Cryptography department. There, he examined more than 100 patent applications.
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2009
B.S., summa cum laude, Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, 2004
- State of New York
- State of New Jersey
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit