Christopher A. Honea

I'll research this attorney's background and practice.

Let me dig into the tracked cases and PTAB activity.

Let me research IPR/PTAB activity and the X One / Activemap campaigns.

Christopher A. Honea — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Honea's practice centers on plaintiff-side patent enforcement in wireless/mobile and software technologies. His engineering background (B.S. electrical engineering) aligns with the asserted subject matter in his tracked matters, which cluster around two related location-sharing patent families: the X One, Inc. portfolio (server- and device-implemented methods for sharing GPS position data between mobile devices, asserted against food-delivery defendants including Domino's, Pizza Hut, and DoorDash) and the Piney Woods Mobility LLC portfolio (two-way position-sharing patents, acquired from X One, asserted against AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Apple, and Samsung). Earlier work at Garteiser Honea spanned software, electronics, audio/content-recognition (Blue Spike), and some life-sciences mandates. Firm materials describe the IP litigation group as covering patent, trademark, copyright, trade-secret, and unfair-competition disputes.

Side preference. He is a dedicated plaintiffs'-side patent litigator. All 16 tracked appearances are plaintiff-side (0 defendant-side), and the majority are as lead counsel. The firm has publicly stated it "prefers to do contingency fee work as opposed to hourly work on the plaintiff's side," and its docket reflects representation of patent-holding plaintiffs/NPEs (X One, Piney Woods Mobility, Activemap, Blue Spike, Display Technologies, Scanning Technologies Innovations, ElectraLED, Infogation) rather than operating-company defendants. He has appeared in a local-counsel capacity in at least one matter (X One v. Domino's), indicating he is also used for Texas forum work.

Firm context and notable matters. Honea is a named partner and co-chair of the IP litigation group at Garteiser Honea, PLLC (Tyler, Texas; originally San Rafael, California). He previously litigated at McKool Smith (Dallas, ~three years, E.D. Tex. focus) and Quinn Emanuel's Silicon Valley office, and earlier served as in-house counsel to a group of start-up companies. His firm-published representative matters include representing i4i, Inc. against Microsoft in the XML/Office patent case (jury verdict over $290 million, affirmed in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i, 131 S. Ct. 2238 (2011)); representing Roche Molecular Systems in Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems (S. Ct. 2011) on the ownership issue; and defending Sony Electronics in Adams & Associates v. Sony Electronics. The current Piney Woods Mobility campaign (E.D. Tex. and W.D. Tex., filed February 2026) is the most prominent active matter, with Apple having filed a parallel declaratory-judgment action in N.D. Cal. Note that one X One patent family was subject to third-party IPR challenges resulting in Uber Technologies v. X One, No. 2019-1164 (Fed. Cir. 2020), in which the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB's non-obviousness finding; I could not verify whether Honea personally handled that IPR/appeal.

PTAB / IPR. I found only indirect evidence of PTAB-side involvement (a PTAB filing referencing him as counsel in connection with the ElectraLED dispute), not a documented, regular IPR/PGR practice. His tracked docket is district-court focused, so this should be treated as unconfirmed.

Bar and education. Admitted in California (2004) and Texas; admitted to the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims, and several district courts (E.D. Tex., N.D. Tex., N.D./C.D./S.D. Cal., E.D. Wis.). J.D. with Distinction (2004) and B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Special Distinction (2001), University of Oklahoma.