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Kevin M. Kneupper

Austin Office
Associate
Austin Office

300 W. 6th Street
Suite 1700
Austin, TX 78701
TEL: 512.692.8753  |  FAX: 512.692.8744
kkneupper@mckoolsmith.com

Kevin Kneupper is an associate in the Austin office of McKool Smith.  After law school Mr. Kneupper was a law clerk to Judge James L. Dennis at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Representative Matters

  • Versata. Versata v. SAP - Member of trial team that represented Versata in a jury trial on damages against SAP involving Versata's pricing patent and obtained a $346 million verdict for Versata.
  • i2 Technologies. i2 Technologies v. Oracle - Represented i2 in litigation involving patents on enterprise software, including factory planning, demand planning, and supply chain management software.
  • Keybank & SunTrust Bank. DataTreasury v. Bank of America et al - Member of trial team that represented KeyBank and SunTrust in litigation involving patents on check imaging technologies. Case settled mid-trial.
  • Versata Software. Versata Software v. SAP AG - Member of trial team that represented Versata in a jury trial against SAP AG and obtained a $138 million jury verdict against SAP for infringement of Versata's pricing software patents by SAP's enterprise software suite.
  • Versata Software. Versata Software v. Sun Microsystems - Member of trial team that represented Versata in a jury trial against Sun Microsystems, involving Versata's configuration software patents.
  • Rambus, Inc. Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. v. Rambus, Inc. - Member of trial team that represented Rambus and defended its actions as a member of JEDEC, a DRAM standard-setting organization, and won a jury verdict rejecting fraud and antitrust claims against Rambus.

Articles

“The Patent Reform Legislation Debate: Damages and Interlocutory Appeal Provisions,” co-authored with Peter Ayers, presented at the AIPLA Spring Meeting, May 2008.