Austin Teng

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Austin Teng — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Austin C. Teng is a shareholder in Winstead PC's Business Litigation Practice Group, based in Austin, where he focuses on patent infringement, trade secret litigation, and other technology-driven disputes in state and federal courts. His technical docket is concentrated in electrical engineering and computer science subject matter: wireless and standards-based communications (4G/5G, Wi-Fi, MIMO, power management), video coding and streaming/content delivery, GPUs and graphics/ray tracing, semiconductors and fabrication, data-center/networking/DPU architectures, distributed storage (erasure coding, deduplication), cybersecurity software, VoIP and corrections communications, medical devices (including minimally invasive glaucoma stents), and oil-and-gas drilling and completions. He is a former software engineer (Siemens Industry), which he draws on for source-code and technical record work, and a registered U.S. patent attorney.

Side preference. The tracked appearance data here is thin — two plaintiff-side appearances at Winstead (one as Shareholder, one as Attorney) — and the underlying records are untitled, so they should be read as a partial sample rather than a reliable side profile. Web-verifiable dockets and Winstead's own representative-experience list show a genuinely mixed practice: patent-owner/plaintiff work for entities such as MOSAID, CA, Inc., and Securus Technologies, alongside defense work for chipmakers, a cybersecurity vendor, a medical-device maker, and a large consumer-electronics company. He is best characterized as a both-sides technology litigator, not a dedicated NPE/PAE or defense-side specialist.

Firm history and notable matters. Before joining Winstead in February 2024, he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Austin, and earlier practiced at Holland & Knight and Thompson & Knight (the two merged in 2021) after beginning his career at Thompson & Knight. Public dockets place him on: MOSAID Technologies v. MediaTek (E.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00129) as plaintiff's counsel through claim construction; MOSAID Technologies v. Intel (W.D. Tex., later D. Or.), where the court in August 2026 granted a stay pending ex parte reexamination; CA, Inc. v. Netflix (E.D. Tex.), a case that also generated Netflix's IPR2022-00322 against CA; UNM Rainforest Innovations (STC.UNM) v. Apple (W.D. Tex., 2019); and Securus Technologies v. Global Tel*Link (N.D. Tex., 2016). Verified outcomes in these matters are limited to the procedural rulings above; no verdicts attributable to him were confirmed in the sources reviewed.

PTAB / IPR. No public record was verified showing Teng as lead or backup counsel on IPR or PGR petitions, though his asserted patents have been the subject of third-party IPRs and reexaminations. His publicly documented work is district-court (and some state-court) litigation rather than routine PTAB practice; treat any PTAB emphasis with caution.

Bar and education. Admitted to the Texas bar in 2014; J.D., SMU Dedman School of Law (2014); B.S. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington (cum laude); registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 68788).

Note on sourcing: the "untitled" tracked cases could not be matched to named matters, so case attributions above rest on Law360 attorney-case listings, federal dockets (CourtListener, PacerMonitor), and Winstead's and BTI's published bios. The Law360 Winstead page lists 22 total matters, Kirkland & Ellis lists 7, and Holland & Knight lists 3, suggesting the two-appearance count here substantially understates his actual docket.