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 Associations
- State Bar of Texas
Kevin M. Kneupper
Austin OfficeAssociate
TEL: 512.692.8753 | FAX: 512.692.8744kkneupper@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.
Press Releases
- September 13, 2011
- May 13, 2011
- August 28, 2009
Articles
“The Patent Reform Legislation Debate: Damages and Interlocutory Appeal Provisions,” co-authored with Peter Ayers, presented at the AIPLA Spring Meeting, May 2008.