Casey Shomaker

Casey Shomaker is an associate in McKool Smith's Dallas office, focusing her practice primarily on patent litigation within the broader intellectual property field. She has experience across various technology areas, including telecommunications, financial services, software, electronic hardware, medical devices, and mechanical arts. Her patent litigation experience encompasses pleadings, motion practice, pretrial discovery, and claim construction analysis.

Shomaker predominantly represents plaintiffs in patent disputes, aligning with her firm's recognition as a leading plaintiff IP firm and her inclusion among the "Top Most Active and Performing Attorneys Representing Complainants" by the Patexia ITC Intelligence Report for 2025-2026. This preference is reflected in her track record, with all two of her recorded appearances being on the plaintiff's side.

Her notable case experience includes representing Nokia in patent infringement litigation against HP, Inc. concerning patents essential to H.264 and H.265 video-decoding standards and streaming video technology. She also represented Ericsson in a global patent licensing dispute with Lenovo, which concluded with a multi-year cross-license agreement and the withdrawal of all pending litigation and administrative proceedings, including those before the USITC. While not explicitly detailing her individual appearances in PTAB proceedings, her firm, McKool Smith, lists Inter Partes Review (IPR) and PTAB disputes as a concentration area within its intellectual property litigation practice, suggesting exposure to such proceedings.

Ms. Shomaker is admitted to practice in the State of Texas, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Texas, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She earned her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law in 2018 and holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin, obtained in 2015.