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Richard

RICHARD KOEHL

PARTNER, BLUE PEAK

Email | richard@bluepeak.law

Phone | 1 (737) 346-6600
vCard | Richard Koehl

Office | New York, NY

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LEGAL BACKGROUND

Richard M. Koehl, Ph.D., is a partner at Blue Peak Law Group with extensive trial and appellate experience in intellectual property disputes ranging from district courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. He regularly represents clients in complex litigation at both trial and appellate levels with a track record that includes jury trials and appeals at the Federal Circuit and Supreme Court. Dr. Koehl helps innovative companies resolve high-stakes intellectual property disputes with precision and impact.

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Dr. Koehl was co-counsel for the petitioner in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 137 S. Ct. 1514 (2017), a widely-reported U.S. Supreme Court patent venue case. Before law school, he earned his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 2000 for his work concerning spatial and temporal ultrafast imaging and control of terahertz wave packets, for which he received a patent.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

  • TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC (U.S. Supreme Court): Co-counsel for the petitioner TC Heartland LLC

  • Soluble Technologies Group, LLC and TC Heartland, LLC v. DreamPak, LLC (E.D. Virginia): Trial counsel for plaintiffs

  • Cipla Ltd. v. Amgen Inc. and Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (Third Circuit): Co-counsel for appellee Cipla in Appeal No. 19-2017 at the Third Circuit and for Cipla as amicus curiae in related Appeal No. 19-1650 at the Federal Circuit

  • Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (U.S. Supreme Court): Co-counsel for International Business Machines Corp. and Red Hat, Inc. as amici curiae supporting petitioner

  • Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (U.S. Supreme Court): Co-counsel for SPCM S.A. and High Tech Inventors Alliance as amici curiae supporting respondents

  • Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC (U.S. Supreme Court): Co-counsel for the Internet Association, and others, as amici curiae supporting respondents

PRIOR POSITIONS

  • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP

EDUCATION

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2003

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 2000

  • Rice University, B.A., 1995

COURT ADMISSIONS

  • United States Supreme Court

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

  • State of New York

  • State of Texas

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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