Richard Koehl

Partner, Blue Peak Law Group

Phone | 917-856-3872
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Office | New York, NY

Legal Background

Richard M. Koehl, Ph.D., is an intellectual property litigation attorney and a partner of Blue Peak Law Group. Dr. Koehl has deep experience in all aspects of patent litigation as counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants. Contentious matters involving trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, and intellectual property contracts have also been a prominent part of his practice.

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. He has also appeared in district courts around the country, in inter partes review proceedings, and in appeals at the Federal, Second, and Third Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is admitted to the bar in Texas and New York.

Dr. Koehl is familiar with a variety of industries and technlogies. He graduated from Rice University in 1995 with a B.A. in chemistry. 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
Dale Progress Ltd. v. American Honda Motor Co. (E.D. Texas): Trial counsel for defendant American Honda Motor Co.
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
Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Robert Bosch LLC (Patent Trial and Appeal Board): Lead counsel for petitioner Costco Wholesale Corp. in eight inter partes review proceedings, and trial counsel in related litigation in the District of Delaware
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
France Telecom S.A. v. Marvell Semiconductor Inc. (N.D. California): Trial counsel for plaintiff France Telecom S.A. (n/k/a Orange S.A.)
Pregis Innovative Packaging Inc. v. Sealed Air Corp. (D. Delaware): Trial counsel for plaintiff Pregis Innovative Packaging Inc., and inter partes review counsel in five related Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings
Broadcom Inc. v. Emulex Corp. (C.D. California): Counsel for defendant Emulex Corp.
Rambus Inc. v. Infineon Technologies AG et al. (E.D. Virginia): Trial counsel for Infineon defendants

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