AZA’s IP group is known for its unique ability to take on its clients’ most complex patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright and trademark infringement disputes. We excel at explaining highly technical concepts to judges and juries around the country—no matter the industry or technology. Because of that, publications like Chambers USA and IAM Patent 100 have consistently ranked AZA as a top intellectual property litigation firm.

Chambers USA describes 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 also 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 have the technical know-how and courtroom experience not just to take the most complex intellectual property case to trial, but to win it when we do.

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

• Digital Security
• Digital Media
• Financial Services
• Geothermal Energy
• Industrial Engines
• Internet Communications
• Mobile Devices (Hardware & Software)
• Medical Devices
• Oil & Gas/Oilfield Services
• Telecommunications

Over the years, our lawyers have obtained well over a billion dollars in verdicts and settlements on intellectual property matters. Examples of our work:

• We represent Anonymous Media Research Holdings in two high stakes patent infringement suits against Samsung and Roku for infringement AMRH’s patent portfolio on automated content recognition and media measurement. The cases are pending in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
• We represent Fervo Energy in defense of patent infringement claims brought by Ormat over a patent covering drilling techniques for production of geothermal fluid.
• We represent Autoscribe Corp. in ongoing litigation in the Eastern District of Texas against multiple infringers of Autoscribe’s patents covering technology for facilitating secure online payments. Within only a few months, AZA has already negotiated a favorable license from one of the first defendants.
• 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.