Claire A. Henry

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Claire Abernathy Henry — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Ms. Henry is an intellectual-property and commercial litigator based in Longview, Texas, whose practice centers on high-stakes patent infringement trials in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Her docket in the tracked data and in public filings skews toward electronics and communications technologies — wireless/mobile devices, semiconductor matters, and media-consumption measurement — as well as university technology-transfer litigation, including appearances for The Research Foundation for SUNY, the University of Connecticut, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in E.D. Tex. litigation against Samsung entities (2:23-cv-00141). Firm and directory profiles describe her as translating complex technical subject matter for juries, with trial experience spanning jury selection, opening/closing, and expert and fact witness examination.

Side preference and role. The tracked data show eight appearances, all on the plaintiff side (8 plaintiff / 0 defendant), split between Miller Fair Henry (7) and Ward, Smith & Hill (1), in roles ranging from Lead Counsel to appearing counsel and local counsel. That tally is consistent with her firm's role as East Texas trial and local counsel for out-of-district lead plaintiffs' teams — though her own firm biography and Best Lawyers profile state that she represents both plaintiffs and defendants in patent and commercial disputes, so the all-plaintiff tracked record likely understates defense-side work rather than reflecting a categorical plaintiff-only practice.

Firm context. She is a name partner at Miller Fair Henry PLLC, the boutique formed when Ward, Smith & Hill PLLC was renamed effective October 1, 2024 (partners Brett Miller, Andrea Fair, and Claire Henry became the named partners). Before private practice she served as a briefing attorney to the Hon. T. John Ward, former U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas — the source of her E.D. Tex. procedural background. Her entire tracked practice history is with the Ward, Smith & Hill / Miller Fair Henry lineage; no in-house or other firm affiliations were identified.

Notable cases and IPR experience. The most prominent named case in her tracked list is Network-1 Technologies, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al. (E.D. Tex., Judge Rodney Gilstrap, filed June 2025), a plaintiff-side NPE suit. Beyond that, the well-documented recent results are firm-level rather than attributable to her individually by name in press coverage: Miller Fair Henry assisted lead counsel in the 2025 Samsung verdicts totaling $524M (Collision Communications and Anonymous Media Research), the $175M Headwater Research verdict against Verizon, the $278.8M Headwater–Samsung verdict, and the $847M General Access Solutions–Verizon verdict — with press accounts generally crediting name partner Andrea Fair as the trial lawyer in those matters. I found no verifiable record of Ms. Henry appearing in IPR/PGR proceedings at the PTAB; that should be treated as unconfirmed rather than as evidence of no PTAB experience.

Bar and education. Admitted to the Texas bar in 2006; admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern (2006), Eastern (2007), and Western (2019) Districts of Texas. J.D., Stanford Law School (2005); B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Vanderbilt University (2002).

Note on sources: firm biographies, Best Lawyers/Super Lawyers/MoreLaw directory entries, business-wire firm announcements, and court filings. Directory and firm marketing pages also contain personal and family details, which are deliberately omitted here.