Michael J. Newton

Partner,

Mike has significant experience litigating intellectual property issues before the Eastern District of Texas, one of the hottest court districts for IP matters. As a seasoned litigator here, and among many other federal courts, Mike has the experience needed to tackle any IP matters at hand, including coordinating international litigation.

Technology, Consumer Electronics, and Semiconductors

Representing a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action involving seven patents relating to disparate functionality allegedly used in laptop computers in the Eastern District of Texas.
Representing a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action relating to internet routing and filtering in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action dealing with patents alleged to relate to the 802.11 wireless standards in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action relating to CDMA technology in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of California.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action relating virtual computing systems in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action relating to computerized business-to-business commerce in the Central District of California.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent infringement action involving image enhancement technology allegedly used by laser printers and LCD television in the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of Illinois.
Represented a leading global technology company in a three-patent infringement suit on patents relating to computer systems and cache memory coherency in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading global technology company in a nine-patent case involving various Wi-Fi related technologies in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading global technology company in an eight-patent case relating to network interface card technologies in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent case relating to LED technology in the District of Massachusetts.
Represented a leading global technology company in a patent case related to power management of solid-state memory in the Eastern District of Texas and the Northern District of California.
Represented a leading global technology company in a three-patent case involving true random number generators for use in encryption technologies in the Western District of Texas.
Represented a leading satellite TV provider and a satellite internet provider in a patent infringement action involving satellite television program guides in the Western District of North Carolina.
Represented a leading satellite TV provider and other defendants in defense of five patent infringement claims involving conditional access technology in the District of Delaware.
Represented an electronics corporation in a jury trial for patent infringement in the Southern District of New York.

Represented a leading satellite TV provider in a case involving digital transmission standards in the District of Colorado.
Represented a leading satellite TV provider in a patent infringement action relating to database technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a consumer electronics manufacturer and a semiconductor manufacturer in the enforcement and defense of semiconductor patents in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a consumer electronics manufacturer and a semiconductor manufacturer as the plaintiff and counterclaim-defendant in an action for the infringement of multiple patents relating to semiconductor technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a consumer electronics manufacturer and a semiconductor manufacturer in a lawsuit involving 11 semiconductor product, packaging, and process patents in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a consumer electronics manufacturer and a semiconductor manufacturer against allegations of infringing a patent generally related to simulating or modeling the operation of semiconductor fabrication plants in the Northern District of Illinois.
Represented a consumer electronics manufacturer in a patent infringement dispute relating to set-top box technology in the Northern District of Texas.
Represented a consumer electronics manufacturer against allegations of infringement of patents relating to semiconductor manufacturing processes in the Eastern District of New York.
Represented a semiconductor manufacturer against allegations of infringing patents relating to the use and structure of cache memories in semiconductors and to methods for forming titanium nitride layers in semiconductor products in the District of Delaware.
Represented a semiconductor manufacturer in a patent infringement case related to semiconductor processes and circuits in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a semiconductor manufacturer in patent and antitrust litigation relating to packaging technology for DRAMs in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a global semiconductor company in patent infringement case involving a video coding technique in the Southern District of New York.
Represented a global semiconductor company in patent related to chip packaging technology in the Central District of California.
Represented a global semiconductor company in a case relating to modulation technology and signal processing in the Southern District of California.
Represented a global semiconductor company in enforcing various semiconductor product and process patents in four patent infringement cases against Linear Technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a global semiconductor company in the defense of patents directed to certain packages for semiconductor devices in the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a global semiconductor company successfully enforcing various semiconductor patents and defended against others in a multiple-forum dispute in the Eastern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia.
Represented a global semiconductor company in a semiconductor patent infringement action against five defendants in the Northern District of Texas.

Telecommunications

Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement action relating to encryption system and method in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement action relating to video game technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement action dealing with patents alleged to relate to the 802.11 wireless standards in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement action relating to touch screen devices in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement action relating to CDMA technology in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of California.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement action relating to spread-spectrum CDMA wireless telephony in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement case relating to the ergonomic design of Nokia cellular handset keyboards in the District of Oregon and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation against a patent infringement action relating to modulation technology and signal processing in the Northern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in patent infringement case against Apple relating to telecommunications technology in the District of Delaware.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation and one of its subsidiaries in a patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement case in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation in four patent cases related to numerous telecommunications technologies in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented the intervenor, a multinational telecommunications corporation, to defend against Huawei’s patent infringement allegations related to 4G telecommunications technologies in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented a leading telecommunications service provider in a case related to telecommunications and Wi-Fi technologies in the Southern District of California.
Represented a leading telecommunications service provider in a case related to handover technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented an American multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent case related to visual voice mail technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Represented an American multinational telecommunications corporation in a case related to telecommunications and Wi-Fi technologies in the Southern District of California.
Representing an American multinational telecommunications corporation in case related to handover technology and telecommunications testing equipment in the Eastern District of Texas.
Representing an American multinational telecommunications corporation in a patent infringement case related to antenna technology in the Eastern District of Texas.
Representing an American multinational telecommunications corporation in a case related to telecommunications and Wi-Fi technologies in the Eastern District of Texas.

ITC Investigations

Represented a multinational telecommunications corporation against HTC in patent case involving mobile phone hardware and software.
Represented the complainant against Apple Inc. in an ITC investigation of the importation of consumer electronics.
Represented the respondent, a multinational telecommunications corporation, in an ITC investigation of the importation of mobile phones.
Represented the respondent, a multinational telecommunications corporation, in an ITC investigation of the importation of mobile phones.
Represented the complainant, a multinational telecommunications corporation, against Apple Inc. in an ITC investigation of the importation of infringing consumer electronics.
Represented the respondent, a multinational telecommunications corporation, in an ITC case related to subsea telecommunications technologies.
Represent a multinational telecommunications corporation against HTC in a patent case involving mobile phone hardware and software.
Represented a global semiconductor company in a patent infringement action before the International Trade Commission relating to digital signal processors.
Represented a global semiconductor company in an ITC investigation and patent infringement cases against various Samsung products made by processes that infringed TI semiconductor patents.
Represented the respondents in an action before the U.S. International Trade Commission for patent infringement involving integrated receivers/decoders for satellite television broadcasts.
Represented a leading global technology company in an ITC investigation (Inv. No. 337-TA-1053) and the related district court case) relating to audio processing technologies.
Represented the respondent, a leading global technology company, in an investigation before the U.S. International Trade Commission for patent infringement involving audio processing technology.
Represented the respondent, a leading global technology company, in an action before the U.S. International Trade Commission for patent infringement involving the moving and storing of information throughout an organization.

Life Sciences

Represented a biomedical company in patent case involving methods for preparing placental tissue and amniotic fluid allografts in the District of Arizona.
Represented a biomedical company in patent case relating to an amniotic extracellular matrix product in the Southern District of California.
Represented a public biomedical company in patent case related to amniotic tissue graft technology in the Western District of Texas.
Represented a public biomedical company in patent case related to amniotic tissue graft technology in the Northern District of Alabama.

Michael J. Newton

Technology, Consumer Electronics, and Semiconductors

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