Blake Thomas Dietrich

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Blake Thomas Dietrich — Jackson Walker LLP (Dallas)

Focus areas. Dietrich is an intellectual property litigator whose work centers on patent infringement disputes in the electronics, communications, and software-adjacent spaces, consistent with his stated electrical engineering/computer science background. Recurring subject matter across his docket includes DSL and broadband standards (the TQ Delta matters involving xDSL/ITU-standard patents and Federal Circuit appeals), LED lighting assemblies (Principal Lighting Group), industrial flow-measurement and connector hardware (AS-Schneider), online advertising and targeting technology (AlmondNet), cybersecurity software (the Taasera Licensing MDL, representing Musarubra US/McAfee Enterprise), retail e‑commerce and camera-based pointing devices (Pointwise Ventures v. Penney OpCo), plus robotics, semiconductor, and life-science diagnostics work reflected in his patent prosecution-side applicant list (Semtech, Applied Concepts, ELITechGroup, university systems). Firm bios describe him as practicing across patent, trademark, and copyright matters generally, with patent litigation as the core.

Side preference. He works both sides rather than being a one-directional defense or plaintiff counsel. The tracked appearance data here is thin — a single defendant-side case as lead counsel (Penney OpCo in Pointwise Ventures) — but broader docket records show him representing patent owners/assertion entities in offensive suits (TQ Delta, LLC; Principal Lighting Group; AS-Schneider) and operating companies as defendants (Penney OpCo; Musarubra; GSC Enterprises; the AlmondNet/Roku-related matters). Any "NPE-only" or "defense-only" characterization would be inaccurate.

Firm and PTAB experience. He has been at Jackson Walker, where he is a partner in the Dallas office, and dockets show no prior firm of significance in his patent litigation career. He is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 72117) with meaningful post-grant experience: he and partner Wasif Qureshi defeated institution of RJ Machine Co. v. AS-Schneider (IPR2024‑00851), which was followed by settlement and dismissal of the parallel W.D. Tex. case; he has appeared as counsel in other IPR matters (e.g., a Microsoft power of attorney filing in IPR2022‑01260) and has published on post-grant practice, ex parte reexamination, and intervening rights.

Notable matters and background. Verifiable results include the AS-Schneider IPR denial and the Principal Lighting Group v. SloanLED resolution, in which SloanLED agreed to redesign its PrismBEAM product and take a license after PLG moved for a preliminary injunction. He was part of the TQ Delta trial and appellate team in the CommScope/ARRIS/2Wire DSL litigation (Fed. Cir. Nos. 24‑1587/24‑1588), where TQ Delta lost post-trial motions and appealed. In the tracked Pointwise Ventures v. Penney OpCo matter (E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap), the case was dismissed with prejudice with each party bearing its own costs after Penney filed an answer, counterclaim, and a Rule 12(c) motion. Education/bar: J.D., George Washington University Law School (2013), and a summa cum laude degree in Applied Science & Technology from George Washington University; admitted in Texas (2013); named a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2023). Firm bios have described him as having litigated "over 50" (2019) and "close to 100" (2022) patent cases — those figures are self-reported and not independently verified.