Brett E. Cooper

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Brett E. Cooper — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Cooper's practice centers on patent litigation across a broad technology range, with a recurring emphasis on wireless and consumer-electronics subject matter. His firm bio and public filings reflect work on wireless standards and communications (Wi-Fi, VoLTE/LTE, wireless charging, secure subsystems), NFC/contactless and digital payments, smart-home and building energy management, H.264 video coding, consumer camera/digital imaging, IT service-management software, and mechanical/water-filtration devices. His formal technical background is mechanical and environmental engineering (B.S./M.S., Tufts) and he is a registered patent attorney, which he cites as the basis for handling engineering-heavy disputes. He has litigated in district courts nationwide as well as the ITC and the Federal Circuit.

Side preference. The tracked docket shows 1 plaintiff-side appearance (at McKool Smith, as lead counsel) versus 3 defendant-side appearances (at BC Law Group), but the raw counts understate his two-sided practice and mislabel the posture of some matters. He has represented plaintiffs/patent owners asserting patents (e.g., Wi-LAN, Foras Technologies, Ollnova, Scramoge, Aire, Speir) and also defended operating companies (e.g., T-Mobile/MetroPCS in patent suits). Notably, two of the tracked "defendant" entries — BMW et al. v. Foras Technologies and Unified Patents v. SimplyTapp — are PTAB proceedings in which the captioned "defendant" (Foras, SimplyTapp) is the patent owner, and Cooper was lead counsel for the patent owner/respondent. In short, he is genuinely both-sided, with a substantial patent-owner-side PTAB and assertion practice alongside operating-company defense work.

Firm context. Cooper is Managing Partner of BC Law Group, P.C. (firm materials also cited as "BCLG"), based in New York. Before founding BCLG he spent roughly 14 years as a partner at McKool Smith, where he is credited with building the firm's New York IP practice; earlier in his career he was a law clerk to the Hon. Joanna Seybert (E.D.N.Y.) and practiced at Proskauer Rose and Weil Gotshal. He is admitted in New York and before the Federal Circuit, the USPTO, and several district courts, and is co-chair of the Patent Litigation Committee of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. He was part of the McKool Smith trial team that won a $145.1 million jury verdict for Wi-LAN Inc. against Apple in the S.D. Cal. (Aug. 1, 2018, VoLTE patents 8,457,145 and 8,537,757); his firm bio also cites a separate $85 million Wi-LAN/Apple verdict, which I could not independently verify. He has substantial PTAB experience, regularly appearing as patent-owner counsel in IPRs. In BMW of North America v. Foras Technologies (U.S. 7,502,958), the PTAB issued a final written decision in March 2025 holding all challenged claims unpatentable, denied the patent owner's Director Review request, and Cooper then represented Foras on appeal to the Federal Circuit (No. 25-1968). He also represented patent owner Ollnova Technologies in the underlying Ollnova v. ecobee litigation ($11.5 million jury verdict) and in related IPRs, and argued Ollnova's Federal Circuit appeal (No. 25-1045) over the district court's deferral of prejudgment interest. Other PTAB matters include work for BMC Software, Universal Connectivity Technologies, and SimplyTapp. His IPR record is therefore mixed rather than uniformly favorable.

Bar/education (one line). J.D., St. John's University (2001, cum laude); B.S. Mechanical Engineering (1990) and M.S. Environmental Engineering (1991), Tufts University; registered patent attorney (Reg. No. 55,085).