Josh Krevitt is a partner in the New York and Palo Alto offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and is co-chair of the firm's National Intellectual Property Practice -- one of the premier IP practices in the country. Mr. Krevitt focuses on intellectual property litigation, chiefly patent litigation, as well as complex commercial litigation.
Mr. Krevitt has successfully represented some of the leading technology companies in the world in some of their most important and challenging intellectual property matters. Mr. Krevitt has represented companies such as Hewlett-Packard, T-Mobile, Sharp, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Viacom, Cablevision, Thomson, Helio, Amazon.com, Napster, Danger, MobiTV, Novo Nordisk, Red Hat and Novell in intellectual property litigation matters.
Mr. Krevitt has repeatedly been ranked and selected by numerous publications, including The Best Lawyers in America, as one of the top intellectual property litigators in the country. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008 ranked Mr. Krevitt among the top Intellectual Property lawyers in New York, and singled out his “masterful negotiation in patent disputes.” The Legal 500 US also named Mr. Krevitt one of the leading trial lawyers and leading Intellectual Property litigators in the United States, in its 2008 edition. Mr. Krevitt was recently ranked as a leading Intellectual Property litigator in The Best Lawyers in America, 2009.
Mr. Krevitt also was recently named to the IP Law & Business 2008 list of the Top 50 IP lawyers under age 45 in the United States, which features those in-house counsel, outside counsel and academics who "are distinguished by their sheer brainpower, legal smarts, creativity and hard work." The story praised Mr. Krevitt’s role as “lead counsel for a long list of technology companies,” and recognized the many instances in which companies involved in major patent litigations have switched counsel mid-litigation to use Mr. Krevitt and Gibson Dunn.
Mr. Krevitt has litigated complex, high-stakes patent infringement cases in courts throughout the United States as well as the U.S. International Trade Commission. These cases have generally involved numerous patents and enormous stakes, and have concerned a wide variety of technologies, including wireless devices and transmissions, LCD design and fabrication, microprocessor design, data and telecommunications hardware and software, and semiconductor and integrated circuit design and fabrication as well as many areas relating to the Internet, such as the compression, storage and transmission of content, and routers and switches.
Recently, Mr. Krevitt was lead trial counsel, and achieved extremely successful results, in major cases involving numerous patents relating to LCD, integrated circuit and semiconductor technology. In addition, Mr. Krevitt has extensive experience successfully representing a wide range of clients in major trade secret, copyright, media and other complex commercial litigation matters.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Krevitt was a partner in the New York and Silicon Valley offices of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. His move to Gibson Dunn was described by The American Lawyer as one of the "Star Lateral Moves" in 2006.
Mr. Krevitt has written and lectured regarding diverse intellectual property and litigation issues. Mr. Krevitt also has served on several public interest Boards of Directors, including, most recently, the Board of the Office of the Appellate Defender in New York City, and has served as pro bono counsel to the Boards of Directors of several public service organizations, including New Yorkers for Parks and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Mr. Krevitt graduated from Columbia College and Boston University School of Law, with honors, and attended the London School of Economics Institute of Political and Economic Studies.