Sean C Cunningham

Career

Sean Cunningham is a Chambers-ranked first-chair patent trial lawyer for some of the world’s largest technology and medical device companies. He has nearly three decades of experience handling patent cases through trial in federal district courts and in the International Trade Commission (ITC).

Sean’s decades of experience include more than 25 patent trials in the ITC, Delaware, Texas, California, New York, Virginia, Illinois, and Arizona. His most recent experience includes the defense of two global technology companies in coordinated patent assertions in multiple ITC proceedings, district court cases, and IPR proceedings. Sean also was the first-chair trial lawyer in two jury trials in the past three years for a global consumer products company, and he recently represented Microsoft, Lenovo, Motorola, and others in two co-pending ITC investigations and additional district court cases. Since the year 2000, Sean has handled at least 40 ITC cases, most as lead counsel, and is frequently sought after to take over cases from other firms for trial. Sean’s experience also includes the jury trial of the Cornell v. Hewlett-Packard case before then-Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Randall Rader sitting by designation, which resulted in a landmark post-trial ruling on patent damages in favor of his client. Sean’s work has been cited on the floor of the US Senate as spearheading meaningful patent damages reform in the US.