Chris Campbell ’93, an alumnus of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law (Catholic Law) whose legal team at King & Spalding LLP recently scored a major legal victory in a patent infringement jury trial, was recognized by Law360 as a “Legal Lion” in its February 16 issue. Campbell and his colleague Lazar Raynal were also named “Litigators of the Week” by The AmLaw Litigation Daily. Campbell and his team represented the mobile game platform Skillz in Skillz v. AviaGames, a patent infringement case in the Northern District of California, and procured an unanimous jury verdict awarding Skillz $42.9 million in damages from patent infringement on the part of AviaGames’s app Pocket7Games.

Upon a request for quote Campbell shared, "Of all of my trials, the Skillz trial was one of the most gratifying. The client trusted our team first by replacing incumbent counsel, a top 10 AmLaw firm, with the King & Spalding team merely 4 months prior to trial, and then doubled down in their trust in my team, allowing us to take the case through trial. Where companies have valuable IP that is willfully infringed by competitors stealing market share, the path is clear – they should aggressively enforce their IP to reclaim their rightful market share."

More information about Skillz v. AviaGames and Campbell’s subsequent victory is available in both the Law360 and AmLaw articles. Below is a King & Spalding team victory photo following the verdict.