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Kumar
Vinnakota

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Office 469.208.3283
Email kvinnakota@coleschotz.com
Adrienne Hickey |Legal Practice Assistant
469.557.9390 ext. 9393
ahickey@coleschotz.com
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Rajkumar (“Kumar”) Vinnakota’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in both federal and state courts, and various administrative agencies, including intellectual property, trade secrets, energy, business torts, partnership disputes, and insurance matters.

 

Experience

Kumar’s intellectual property practice focuses on managing, licensing, and enforcing patent portfolios, and representing and defending domestic and international clients and research institutes, with an emphasis in the oil & gas, chemical, petrochemical, biochemical, biomaterial, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and electronic industries. Kumar’s practice also focuses on helping technology and start-up companies navigate the complex legal environment to protect their valuable intellectual property and achieve commercial success.

Kumar’s technical background includes work experience as a process engineer at ExxonMobil Chemical and chemical plant design studies at Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining Cole Schotz, P.C., Kumar was a Founding Partner at an intellectual property litigation boutique in Dallas, Texas. He previously worked as an Associate in the Dallas office of Andrews Kurth LLP.

Kumar’s representative cases include:

Patent Defense Litigation
  • Defended multiple defendants in multi-patent infringement action involving call and contact center technologies and telephony systems.
  • Defended automaker Nissan in consolidated multi-patent infringement action involving the interfaces of external devices to car audio environments.
Patent Enforcement Litigation
  • Represented a gas leak detection company in a multi-patent-infringement action involving infrared camera technology to detect fugitive gas emissions.
  • Represented a fluorescent ballast manufacturer in multi-patent infringement action involving electronic CFL ballasts technologies. Successfully drafted and argued Markman proceedings and prevailed on all disputed claim terms. Also successfully drafted opposition to invalidity and non-infringement summary judgment motions.
Patent Enforcement Litigation for Research Institutes
  • Represented a research institute in patent infringement action involving technologies covering manufacturing processes of enzymatic nixtamalization of corn kernels.
  • Represented national Taiwanese research institute in multi-patent infringement action involving numerous consumer related product lines.
Other Complex Commercial or Administrative Agency Litigation
  • Representing an information technology company in a complex shareholder dispute in Delaware Chancery Court and Federal Court.
  • Represented a fluorescent ballast manufacturer in complex commercial litigation involving various business torts and counterclaims of trade secret and Lanham Act violations.
Patent Post-Grant Proceedings
  • Represented Patent Owner in various consolidated Inter Partes Review proceedings with multi-patent actions involving infrared camera technology to detect fugitive gas emissions. Admitted pro hac vice as back-up counsel.
Appeals Before Federal Appellate Courts
  • Represented Appellant in appeal from Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Final Written Decisions from various Inter Partes Reviews.

 

Honors & Awards

Kumar has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer in the areas of intellectual property litigation from 2015 – 2022. Kumar also serves on the Executive Committee and is a Master of the Bench for the Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn American Inn of Court in the Northern District of Texas.

See Award Methodology.

Areas of focus

    Practices
  • Intellectual Property
  • Copyright 
  • Licensing & Corporate Transactions
  • Patent Litigation
  • Patent Portfolio Management 
  • Trademark Litigation & Brand Enforcement 
  • Trademark Portfolio Management 
  • Trade Secrets 
  • Litigation
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Appeals
  • Corporate Litigation
  • Delaware Chancery Court Litigation
  • Patent Litigation
  • Trademark Litigation & Brand Enforcement 

Education

University of Texas at Austin, J.D.
Texas A&M University, B.S.

Bar & Court Admissions

Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas
U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas

Honors & Awards

Texas Super Lawyers
  • Firm News
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Firm News

  1. 01

    Another Packed Edition of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    September 23, 2022 | Law.com
  2. 02

    Cole Schotz Secures Favorable Exclusion Order for OnAsset in Patent Trial

    September 16, 2022 | Cole Schotz Press Release
  3. 03

    Microsoft’s New AI Medical Imaging Biz Defeats Patent Suit

    July 11, 2022 | Law360
  4. 04

    Texas Jury Sinks $10M Spat Over Copyright-Protected Tech

    January 28, 2022 | Law360
  5. 05

    MIT Solver Protects Nascent Business with Jury Win in Eastern District of Texas

    January 23, 2022 | Cole Schotz Press Release
  6. 06

    IP Hires: Paul Hastings, King & Spalding, Blank Rome

    October 8, 2021 | Law360
  7. 07

    Wake Up Call: U.K. Lawyer Sues Ropes for ‘Unrelenting Workload’

    October 6, 2021 | Bloomberg Law
  8. 08

    INTA highlights Asia counterfeit developments; UKIPO appoints new chair; WIPO calls for covid-19 action – news digest

    October 5, 2021 | World Trademark Review
  9. 09

    Industry Moves

    October 5, 2021 | Law360, Reuters
  10. 10

    Boutique Duo Joins Cole Schotz’s Growing IP Team in Dallas

    October 5, 2021 | Texas Lawyer
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Awards + Recognitions

  1. 01

    Four Cole Schotz Attorneys Recognized By 2022 Texas Super Lawyers

    September 21, 2022
  2. 02

    Cole Schotz Expands Texas IP, Litigation Teams with Two New Members

    October 4, 2021
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