Principal Michael J. McKeon Named a Winning Litigators Finalist by The National Law Journal 

Fish & Richardson Principal Michael J. McKeon has been named a finalist in the Winning Litigators – Defense category of the 2025 National Law Journal Awards. Winning Litigators are recognized for achieving at least one “significant win” for their clients in a jury or bench trial in the past year, whether “prevailing when substantial damages were at stake, setting a legal precedent, or overcoming an unfriendly jurisdiction.” 

McKeon has had an active trial year in 2025. In January, he led a trial team that secured a jury verdict of non-infringement for one of the world’s largest and most well-known electronics companies, defeating a damages demand of $1.95 billion — the largest patent infringement damages demand ever tried in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserted that certain battery-saving features of the client’s Android operating system infringed their patent. After a five-day trial, the jury returned its finding of no infringement. The plaintiff initially sought $3.06 billion in damages, which it reduced to $1.95 billion on the eve of trial. 

Additionally, McKeon led two trial teams defending two different clients in two International Trade Commission (ITC) hearings before two separate ITC administrative law judges. He obtained findings of no violation of Section 337 in both cases.    

McKeon has achieved success representing plaintiffs in the past year as well. Serving as lead trial counsel, he secured a multi-million-dollar jury verdict in Delaware in October 2024 for client LG Electronics in a breach of contract action against four subsidiaries of patent assertion entity Intellectual Ventures.  

A nationally recognized intellectual property and trial attorney, McKeon has over 25 years of experience representing the world’s most well-known high technology companies in complex IP disputes. He has successfully tried dozens of cases, leading trial teams in IP matters in U.S. district courts throughout the country and at the ITC. He also regularly appears on behalf of clients at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition to his decades of trial work, McKeon is a highly regarded strategist with a long track record of developing areas of law on behalf of his clients. 

This year’s National Law Journal Awards honorees will be celebrated at an awards dinner on November 5 in Washington, D.C.