Brooke A. M. Taylor

Brooke A. M. Taylor — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Taylor is an intellectual-property trial lawyer whose patent work centered on software and computer-implemented technology: data-fusion and analytics platforms, online messaging/gaming, e-commerce, online real-estate services, and network-security products (Susman Godfrey bio; Law360 "Female Powerbrokers" profile, Apr. 11, 2014). She also had a substantial antitrust/commercial practice, including prosecuting T-Mobile's LCD price-fixing claims against AU Optronics. IAM Patent 1000 named her among the world's leading patent practitioners (2012–2015), and Best Lawyers named her Seattle IP "Lawyer of the Year" (2021).

Side preference / firm. She has worked both sides of the patent docket — representing patent owners and monetizers (Intellectual Ventures, Paltalk, inventor-owned Vasudevan Software, and Zillow as plaintiff) as well as accused infringers. The single tracked appearance, Qomplx LLC v. Microsoft Corporation, lists her as of counsel for defendant Microsoft through Susman Godfrey. She spent her entire career at Susman Godfrey L.L.P. (Seattle), rising from associate to partner and serving on the firm's executive committee. Important context: she suffered severe injuries in an April 2016 accident and, per Seattle Times / Crosscut / Above the Law reports (Jan. 2019), has not actively practiced since; her post-2016 docket listings appear to reflect a continuing of-counsel designation, so the Qomplx role should be read with that caveat.

Notable cases / outcomes. Reported highlights include lead-counsel roles for patentee Vasudevan Software against IBM and Oracle (settled after a favorable Markman ruling); Paltalk's suits against Microsoft, Sony, and Activision in E.D. Tex. (favorable Markman, settled near trial — the Microsoft matter settling mid-jury trial per a 2010 Super Lawyers profile); Intellectual Ventures v. Check Point, McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro (D. Del.); and Zillow v. Trulia (W.D. Wash.). She also authored Supreme Court amicus briefs in eBay v. MercExchange (for prominent inventors), KSR v. Teleflex, MedImmune v. Genentech, and Microsoft v. i4i.

PTAB / bar / education. Reliable sources show no regular IPR/PGR practice; her work was district-court and appellate focused, largely predating the PTAB era. Education and credentials (firm bio, Martindale, Super Lawyers): Duke University B.A. (1998); University of Chicago Law School J.D. (2001); Washington bar (2002); U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, and multiple district courts; law clerk to Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat, Eleventh Circuit.