AZA is a national leader in high‑stakes intellectual property litigation. Clients turn to our IP trial team for their most critical patent infringement and trade secret disputes—cases where the outcome defines the business. Our lawyers bring rare depth in both technical expertise and trial advocacy, enabling us to distill complex technologies into clear, persuasive arguments for judges and juries nationwide. With a proven record of trial success across industries, AZA is consistently recognized by Chambers USA and IAM Patent 100 as a top-tier IP litigation firm.

Chambers USA praises AZA as a “respected Houston-based litigation boutique with notable expertise advising clients involved in high-stakes IP disputes” and a firm with “particular expertise handling complex patent infringement litigation, including at trial, for clients from a wide range of industries.” IAM Patent 100 writes: “AZA is perfectly in step with its clients’ objectives, works relentlessly to achieve them, and has a superb track record of trial wins to show for it.”

We bring both the technical fluency and courtroom skill required to win the most complex intellectual property trials. Our team includes attorneys with advanced STEM backgrounds—spanning electrical engineering, biology, physics, and computer science—who understand the technology at issue. That expertise is reinforced by elite clerkship experience on leading IP courts, including the Federal Circuit and the Eastern District of Texas.

AZA’s IP group represent clients—including contingency plaintiffs—in a wide variety of industries and across a wide spectrum of technologies:

• Telecommunications

• Digital Security

• Digital Media

• Display Technology: OLED, LED, and LCD

• Semiconductors/Chipsets

• Financial Services

• Internet Communications
• GPS Technology

• Mobile Devices (Hardware & Software)

• Medical Devices

• Oil & Gas/Oilfield Services

Examples of our work:

• We won a $78.5 million jury verdict on behalf of client Anonymous Media Research Holdings in a patent infringement suit against Samsung relating to automatic content recognition in Samsung Smart TVs in the Eastern District of Texas.
• We represent Acer Inc. in multi-district standards essential patent litigation against the major U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile as well as base station manufacturers Nokia and Ericsson.

• We represent NeoLayer LLC in cases against international display makers Samsung, AsusTek, and BOE for infringement of Neolayer’s foundational OLED display patents in the Eastern District of Texas.
• AZA represents Mobility IP, LLC against Apple and Samsung for infringement of two families of patents that enable secured mobile transactions by using embedded secured element chips and/or biometric authentication.
• We represent an innovative baby products company, Oribel, in competitor patent infringement litigation against the largest player in the market, Carter’s, Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas.
• We represent IGNIS Display involving pioneering display compensation and pixel circuit technology for OLED and AMOLED display panels—innovations critical to modern high-resolution screens used in smartphones, TVs, and other devices.
• We represent Innovation Technology Partners in a multi-lawsuit campaign in the Eastern District of Texas for infringement of its patents covering innovative runtime application self-protection (RASP) systems.

• We represent Autoscribe Corp. against Stripe in the District of Delaware for infringement of Autoscribe’s patents covering core technology for facilitating secure online payments. AZA has also negotiated numerous licenses as part of an ongoing licensing campaign.

• We successfully took over the defense of Sesame, Inc. against patent-infringement claims brought by MDSave in the District of Delaware related to telehealth technology. On the eve of a hearing to invalidate all six of MDSave’s asserted patents, AZA negotiated for a complete dismissal of the case.

• We represented an inventor of mobile app development and testing technology in patent infringement suits brought in the Eastern District of Texas against two of the nation’s largest banks and successfully obtained two significant settlements after winning the Markman hearing and pursuing summary judgment on the banks’ invalidity defenses.

• On behalf of client NexTier Oilfield Solutions, who was being sued for patent infringement by DynaEnergetics in the Western District of Texas, we successfully invalidated all asserted claims at the PTAB.