Brett A. Smith

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Brett A. Smith — patent litigation summary

Practice focus. Mr. Smith is a Dallas commercial and general-liability trial lawyer, not a patent specialist by public profile. The tracked data shows a single patent matter — Uniloc USA, Inc. et al. v. Electronic Arts, Inc. (E.D. Tex.) — in which he appears on the plaintiff side as of counsel to Fee, Smith & Sharp. His firm biography describes a broad defense-side trial practice (product liability, general liability, insurance bad faith, medical malpractice, premises liability, construction defect, employment and contract disputes) and mentions "intellectual property-related matters" only in passing. The Uniloc campaign concerns consumer software/electronics-type patents, but I found no published description tying him to Wi-Fi/standards, pharmaceutical, or other discrete patent technology niches.

Side preference. On the authoritative counts he is 1–0 on the plaintiff side. Because Uniloc is a well-known non-practicing entity, the single appearance is more consistent with local/of-counsel engagement by a patent owner than with a standing operating-company defense practice. One appearance is too thin to infer a genuine side preference; treat it as a data point, not a pattern.

Firm and background. Founding/senior partner at Fee, Smith & Sharp LLP, Dallas (firm established 2002; related entity Fee, Smith, Sharp & Vitullo LLP). Texas bar since 1991 (State Bar No. 18542275), Ohio since 2014, admitted in all four Texas federal districts. Education per Martindale-Hubbell: B.B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1988; J.D., 1991 (the directory entry garbles the law-school name). Disambiguation note: the extensive Uniloc PTAB work is handled by Brett Mangrum of Etheridge Law Group and by Melissa Smith of Gillam & Smith — neither is this attorney.

Notable matters / PTAB. The Uniloc v. Electronic Arts suit is his only tracked patent case, and I could not verify any verdict, settlement, or Federal Circuit appeal from it. His documented notable results are non-patent: a Texas Supreme Court win for general contractors (opinion May 7, 2021) and appellate oral argument for Pegasus Link Constructors–LBJ East Project (January 2025). I found no IPR/PGR petitions, patent-owner responses, or Board appearances attributable to him, so there is no verified PTAB/IPR practice to flag.

Sourcing caveat: the plaintiff-side of counsel appearance rests on the case list provided; the background details above come from the firm website, Martindale-Hubbell, and Texas appellate court filings. The patent-specific record for this attorney is sparse, and no reliable source describes him as a dedicated patent litigator.