Benjamin Manne

Benjamin Manne is an attorney at Susman Godfrey L.L.P., based in the firm's Seattle office, where his practice encompasses intellectual property disputes, environmental class actions, and complex commercial litigation. In his patent litigation practice, Mr. Manne demonstrates versatility, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. The provided case data indicates an equal balance of plaintiff-side (4) and defendant-side (4) appearances in tracked matters.

His patent litigation experience spans various technology areas. Mr. Manne has represented a Seattle-area hospital in an intellectual property licensing dispute with a biopharmaceutical company. He also represents a real estate technology company in ongoing patent litigation concerning online video-based commerce systems and a producer of smart-home products in patent litigation against Apple regarding the iPhone's Back Tap feature. Additionally, he has handled trade secret cases for a tax software company.

A prominent case in Mr. Manne's portfolio is ChargeLogic LLC v. Tesla, Inc., a patent infringement dispute involving electric vehicle charging technology, where he appeared multiple times on both the plaintiff and defendant sides. In a related proceeding, Tesla, Inc. challenged U.S. Patent No. 10,998,753, which is central to the EV charging technology, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's decision in February 2026, upholding the validity of several patent claims held by Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC, the entity involved in the patent dispute with Tesla. This outcome highlights Mr. Manne's experience in defending patent validity in PTAB and Federal Circuit appeals.

Mr. Manne earned his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and his A.B. in Political Science from Lewis & Clark College.