Texas Intellectual Property Lawyers

Intellectual Property Law

1702 Clarendon St, Longview, TX 75604

Claire Abernathy Henry is a partner at Ward, Smith & Hill, LLP and a native of Longview, Texas. Ms. Henry has 15 years of experience in complex commercial litigation and patent litigation in Texas courts. Before joining Ward, Smith & Hill, Ms. Henry served as a briefing attorney to the Honorable T. John Ward, former U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, one of the busiest patent litigation courts in the nation. Ms. Henry has extensive knowledge of federal court practice and patent litigation in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. For the past decade, Ms. Henry has represented plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes, securities litigation, False Claims Act cases, anti-trust litigation, and class actions as well as high-stakes patent litigation in courts in the Eastern and Western District of Texas. Ms. Henry has been involved in dozens of patent trials, and her trial experience includes jury selection, opening and closing statements, and direct and cross examinations of expert and fact witnesses. MS. Henry’s experience has earned her recognition as a Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star every year from 2012 through 2019 and as a Texas Super Lawyer in 2021 and 2022. She was also named among the Top 100 Up-and-Coming Attorneys in Texas as well as the Top 50 Up-and-Coming Females in Texas in 2018 and 2019. Ms. Henry is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and a member of The Honorable T. John Ward American Inn of Court.Although a native of East Texas, Ms. Henry attended Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts for high school, where she graduated magna cum laude. Ms. Henry graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University in 2002, before earning her law degree from Stanford Law School in 2005. Ms. Henry is married to David Henry, a partner at Carroll, Maloney, Henry, & Nelson PLLC. They have two daughters.Ms. Henry is active in the East Texas community and has been on numerous boards, including the Board of Directors of the Longview Economic Development Corporation, Newgate Homeless Mission, ArtsView Children’s Theatre, The Longview Museum of Fine Arts, and the Johnson Foundation. Ms. Henry attends First United Methodist Church in Longview, where she serves on the Board of Trustees. Ms. Henry has also served as a volunteer for the Vanderbilt University Commodore Recruitment Program. While attending law school, Ms. Henry volunteered as a sexual assault counselor and victim’s advocate.

Intellectual Property Law

1320 Arrow Point Dr suite 501 142, Cedar Park, TX 78613, USA

Craige, an electrical engineer and patent attorney, has deep expertise in licensing, prior art, due diligence, prosecution, and litigation, focusing on electrical, mechanical, software, and medical device patents. He excels in green tech protection and licensing. With a blend of legal, technical, and entrepreneurial skills, Craige has served clients like Google, Apple, Intel, Honeywell, and the University of Minnesota. Raised in an entrepreneurial family, he contributed to his father’s business from age 5. Craige holds a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, with 10 years in analog and power electronics design. Graduating cum laude from UW Law School, Craige is also a best-selling author and holds an MBA. He practiced 7 years at Fish & Richardson P.C. and is best known as the “Examiner Whisperer” and “Patent Killer,” dedicated to maximizing client business value.

Intellectual Property Law

8150 N Central Expy 10th floor, Dallas, TX 75206, USA

I help businesses solve problems involving intellectual property (IP) law, business strategy, and technology law with an emphasis on intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, anti-counterfeiting, IP portfolio strategy, and commercial litigation. I have handled more than 500 intellectual property disputes, including over 40 patent infringement cases and hundreds of IP enforcement actions. I also have significant experience litigating commercial and business disputes, including non-compete, partnership, fiduciary duty, and breach of contract disputes. I have also represented a number of clients in obtaining and resisting requests for injunctive relief in cases involving non-competes, trade secrets, trademarks, and patents. Serving as Texas local counsel to out-of-state parties involved in patent, trademark, copyright, IP, and commercial litigation in state and federal courts in Dallas, Texas and in the Northern, Eastern, Western, and Southern District of Texas federal courts, my practice includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants as Texas local counsel. For more information on Texas patent litigation, see my post Texas Patent Litigation Resources.

Intellectual Property Law

1401 McKinney Street, Suite 1900, Houston, TX 77010

Leisa Talbert Peschel is both an intellectual property trial lawyer and counselor. She has considerable experience litigating intellectual property matters, including over seventy patent infringement cases. Leisa leverages her scientific background to gain an understanding of a client’s technology to better position her client throughout a case. She has been involved in cases dealing with a wide array of technologies, including streaming television, automatic content recognition, targeted advertising, authentication and encryption technology, Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), biotechnology research tools, chemical compositions, dental imaging technology, secondary containment structures, audio compression technology, display technologies, battery technologies, plastics, pipe thread compounds, blow-out preventers, hydraulic fracturing technologies, security systems, computer software methods, and electronics. Leisa also has had lead roles in numerous patent post-grant proceedings, including inter partes reviews and ex parte reexaminations. In addition to her litigation experience, Leisa maintains an active transactional practice. Leisa counsels clients on how to obtain, enforce, and license intellectual property, including trademark acquisition and brand management. She also gives strategic guidance regarding intellectual property transactions, which includes performing due diligence on intellectual property portfolios. Her transactional practice also includes preparing patent opinions of counsel, including freedom-to-operate, noninfringement, and invalidity opinions. Leisa’s scientific background is particularly helpful to clients seeking an opinion of counsel relating to biotechnology, chemical, or oil field services products. Leisa is also a frequent author and speaker on intellectual property law topics. She has spoken on matters relating to corporate patent policies, patent infringement defenses (including a special emphasis on patent-ineligible subject matter), licensing, patent damages, patent reform, concurrent district court litigation and post-grant review proceedings, the Lanham Act, standing, e-discovery, the intersection of science and the law, and design patent infringement.

Intellectual Property Law

1111 Louisiana St, FL 25, Houston, TX 77002

Merritt Westcott's practice focuses in patent litigation, including analysis of infringement, validity, and enforceability of patents, as well as in intellectual property counseling. Her cases are in a variety of industries, with a concentration is those related to biotechnology, including matters involving genetically engineered crops and food products, genetically engineered and traditional pharmaceuticals, monoclonal antibodies, and blood cell control products. In addition, she has been actively involved in litigation matters related to mass storage systems, computer software, and oil and gas exploration technology. Merritt counsels clients on intellectual property litigation strategy, licensing, and settlement negotiations. She is experienced in all aspects of case development, as well as handling indemnification issues related to intellectual property litigations. She also has experience in representing clients in patent interference proceedings, both before the USPTO's Board of Appeals and Interferences and in federal district court. Within her counseling practice, she assists clients in assessing their competitors’ patent portfolios. This includes advising clients with respect to their relative freedom to operate a given technology.