Kenneth G. Parker

Ken Parker is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Practice Group, and is the Head of the firm’s International Trade Commission Section 337 Litigation Group. He is a first-chair trial lawyer who focuses on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and business litigation. He has tried multiple types of cases to verdict in federal court, state court, and other venues, including patent, trademark, and business cases and International Trade Commission Section 337 patent litigation proceedings. Ken has multiple significant jury verdicts, including a recent $17.5 million verdict in a patent infringement jury trial for his client, Panasonic Holdings Corporation.

Ken’s experience includes the following:

• Multiple ITC Section 337 evidentiary hearings and cases, including obtaining and defending against exclusion orders
• Multiple jury trials in patent infringement, trademark infringement and business cases, including multiple multi-million dollar plaintiffs’ verdicts and defense victories
• Representation of multiple Fortune 500 and other companies in intellectual property and business disputes

Ken's experience and results have been mentioned in the following publications, among others:

• “A ‘top litigator’” who is “phenomenal in front of a jury.” World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000), 2016
• Named a Top IP Lawyer in California, Daily Journal, April 19, 2018
• Identified in The American Lawyer Litigation Daily for patent-infringement victory in favor of PTS Diagnostics in the International Trade Commission, April 24, 2020
• Adept “in any forum.” IAM Patent 1000, 2020
• A “full-time litigator with a knack for zeroing in on the matters that are important or sensitive for clients . . His litigation tactics . . . are always effective.” World Trademark Review 1000, 2020
• A “courtroom doyen” who is “extremely sharp” and can “identify arguments and strategy very quickly.” World Trademark Review 1000, 2017
• “[P]ulls out all the stops to ensure that his clients are well protected. He truly shines in competitor litigation.” World Trademark Review 1000, 2019
• Recognized as securing one of the “Top Defense Results” in California in 2017, Daily Journal, February 21, 2018
• “With a profound reservoir of IP litigation know-how backing him up, he brings a level head to heated disputes. His rich trial experience makes his arguments particularly cogent and allows him to deal with a trademark conflict at all levels.” World Trademark Review 1000, 2018
• “An experienced federal court litigator with cross-country experience. His experience across a wide range of complex commercial and IP suits has helped him to develop the narrative skills needed to succeed in front of a jury.” World Trademark Review 1000, 2015

Ken's work spans across industries, including life sciences (for example, research tools, analytical instrumentation/software, medical devices, diagnostics, biomanufacturing systems, etc.), software (encryption, predictive algorithms, AI); electronics and semiconductors, and consumer products. He prides himself on leading or working with teams to best serve clients, making complex issues understandable for clients, judges, and juries, and obtaining superior results for clients. He handles cases in courts throughout the country, and he is admitted in California, Washington, the federal district courts in California, the Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of Texas, the District of Colorado, and United State Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Second, and Ninth Circuits.

Ken is AV Peer Review Rated Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory; is included in the Southern California Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2012-present; has been rated as a Patent and Trademark Star, 2017 to present, by Managing IP Magazine, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC; and has been selected as a leading California trademark litigator by World Trademark Review, Globe Business Publishing Ltd., 2013-present. He has also been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., for Litigation – Intellectual Property, Trademark Law, and Litigation - Patent, 2017 to present and The Best Lawyers in America named him Orange County’s lawyer of the year in Trademark Law in 2017, Patent Law in 2020, and Litigation - Patent in 2026. He was also recently recognized as a leading lawyer in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners, Globe White Page Ltd, 2020, 2022-2025.

Ken is a Master and former President of the Howard T. Markey Intellectual Property Inn of Court, serves as a Board Member and Vice President for the Association of Business Trial Lawyers – Orange County Chapter, serves on the Federal Circuit Bar Journal Committee, and is a member of the International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association.

When Ken is not litigating for clients, he enjoys speaking on issues related to trial tactics and approaches as well as substantive legal issues, providing pro bono work for clients recommended by Orange County’s Public Law Center, and supporting Orangewood Foundation and the United Way.

Ken received a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Management, cum laude, from Texas A&M University – College Station in 1991. He graduated as Vice Chancellor and with high honors, Order of the Coif, from University of Texas School of Law in 1994, where he also served as Articles Editor on the Texas Law Review. After he received his Juris Doctorate, Ken served as a judicial clerk for Chief Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 1994 to 1995.