Aaron L. Morris

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Professional summary: Aaron L. Morris

Focus areas. Morris's practice is intellectual property litigation with a primary emphasis on patent disputes, spanning both district court and PTAB proceedings. His tracked matters cluster in data-center and enterprise-infrastructure technology: the Valtrus Innovations cases assert HPE-origin patents covering modular/flexible data-center design, redundant power-supply control, and facility environmental monitoring (U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,310,855; 7,939,967; 7,057,509). His defense-side matter, Pedersen v. Oracle, involved enterprise marketing-automation software (U.S. Pat. No. 6,925,920 asserted against Oracle's Responsys platform). Court filings also show him signing appearances in related assertion campaigns, including Malikie Innovations Ltd. v. D-Link Corp. and Valtrus v. Verizon Communications — matters that indicate comfort with networking/consumer-device and standards-adjacent portfolios in addition to mechanical/electrical data-center art. His technical background (B.S. aerospace engineering, MIT; engineer at Northrop Grumman) is a stated basis for the hardware-oriented work.

Side preference — both sides, with a heavier recent plaintiff/NPE-side docket. Of the three tracked appearances, two are plaintiff-side (Valtrus) and one is defendant-side (Oracle), consistent with the plaintiff/defendant split of 2–1. The plaintiff-side matters are patent-monetization campaigns — the Stanford NPE database classifies Valtrus as a non-practicing entity, and its co-plaintiff Key Patent Innovations is the trust beneficiary — while Pedersen was a defense of an operating company. His firm biography confirms the two-way practice, describing work "for both accused infringers and patent owners" and pre-filing investigation coordination on both sides. Taken together, he is not a single-side specialist.

Firm context. Morris is currently an associate in the Silicon Valley office of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (Redwood City/Redwood Shores, CA), which he joined in June 2023 as part of a four-lawyer patent trial team — partners Matthew Berkowitz and Patrick Colsher, plus Yue (Joy) Wang — that moved over from Shearman & Sterling LLP. At Shearman he was listed as lead counsel, pro hac vice, for Oracle in Pedersen; his earlier registered business address was Shearman's San Francisco office. A Martindale entry lists him as a Shearman partner, but that appears to be stale/erroneous — both his current firm page and the firm's hiring announcement identify him as an associate.

Notable cases and verifiable outcomes. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al. v. TierPoint, LLC (E.D. Tex., No. 2:25-cv-00323, Judge Gilstrap) was resolved by a joint motion to dismiss with prejudice, each side bearing its own costs — a consent disposition with no merits ruling on infringement or validity. In Valtrus v. Lumen Technologies (N.D. Ill., No. 1:26-cv-03928), plaintiffs filed a voluntary dismissal without prejudice in April 2026; a related Lumen action was refiled in the Western District of Louisiana and then transferred to the Eastern District of Texas under MDL No. 3190, In re Valtrus Innovations Ltd. Patent Litigation, a coordinated proceeding the JPML created in mid-2026. In Pedersen v. Oracle (W.D. Tex., No. 6:22-cv-00410), Oracle's contested venue motion resulted in transfer from Judge Albright's Waco docket to Austin, with the plaintiff withdrawing its opposition. I found no public record of a verdict, settlement amount, or Federal Circuit decision in any of these matters, and I have not verified the outcome of the related Oracle IPR.

PTAB / IPR experience. He does appear in IPR proceedings. USPTO records list him (Reg. No. 80,821) as backup counsel for the patent owner in IPR2023-00196, Samsung Electronics v. CardWare, Inc., and his name appears in PTAB filings and mandatory notices in the Valtrus/SAP dispute, including In re SAP America, Inc. (Fed. Cir. No. 25-118). His firm bio explicitly cites IPR work on both petitioner and patent-owner sides, though the public record I could retrieve is not deep enough to characterize him as a routine first-chair IPR advocate.

Bar and education. Admitted to the California bar in December 2021 (Bar No. 341166); registered patent attorney, USPTO Reg. No. 80,821; J.D., USC Gould School of Law (2021); B.S. Aerospace Engineering, MIT (2017).