- Austin Office
- McKool Smith
- 300 W. 6th Street, Suite 1700
- Austin TX 78701
- TEL: 512.692.8753
- FAX: 512.692.8744
- kkneupper@mckoolsmith.com
Education
- J.D., with high honors, The University of Texas School of Law, 2005. Order of the Coif; Texas Law Review; First Place Thad T. Hutcheson Moot Court Competition April 2003; Winner Susman Godfrey Moot Court Competition Spring 2004; Winner Best Brief and Best Advocate Gibbs Bruns Moot Court Fall 2004; Dean’s Achievement Awards in Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Property, and Torts; and Keeper of the Peregrinus, Chancellor’s Society.
- B.A. in Politics, Wake Forest University, 2003. National Merit Scholar.
Court Admissions
- State of Texas
- The U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of Texas
Kevin M. Kneupper
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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 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.
News
Articles
“The Patent Reform Legislation Debate: Damages and Interlocutory Appeal Provisions,” co-authored with Peter Ayers, presented at the AIPLA Spring Meeting, May 2008.