Kevin Zeck is a versatile, experienced counsel focused on achieving client goals, including vindication of rights through litigation.
Kevin has represented sophisticated clients in high-stakes patent, trade secret, and trademark litigation, as well as intellectual property licensing negotiations and transactions. Kevin has deep experience in standard essential patent issues, and his litigated matters have covered a wide range of technologies, such as mechanical technologies, cellular communications, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, opto-electronics, video game systems, and pharmaceuticals (e.g., cancer drugs).
Kevin has managed all major aspects of complex patent litigation, prepared summary judgment motions, taken and defended depositions of fact and expert witnesses, prepared claim construction briefing, argued at Markman hearings, and cross-examined witnesses at trial. He has also worked with experts to prepare noninfringement, invalidity, and damages reports and has managed large-scale document and e-discovery efforts, including those related to General Data Protection Regulation issues.
Kevin has litigated before numerous federal forums, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas, the Western District of Texas, the District of Delaware, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Northern District of California, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Western District of Washington; the U.S. International Trade Commission; and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Kevin's representative accomplishments include assisting a pharmaceutical company in obtaining an award of more than $100 million in a complex trade-secret arbitration and assisting a national retailer in obtaining a case-ending judgment on the pleadings of invalidity under 35 U.S.C. § 101 on a discount processing patent.
Early in his career, Kevin spent 13 months with the King County Prosecutor's Office. During his time there, he was lead prosecutor in more than 10 trials and argued numerous motions.
Kevin has also been involved in several significant pro bono efforts, including the resolution of a protracted domestic violence divorce litigation.