Connor S. Houghton

Connor S. Houghton is a trial attorney at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP, where he was promoted to partner in July 2024, focusing his practice on complex commercial disputes and intellectual property litigation. His prior experience includes working as an attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP.

Houghton's patent litigation practice spans a diverse range of technologies, including virtualization, optical communications, video streaming, and elliptic curve cryptography, particularly as it relates to blockchain and cryptocurrency. He primarily represents patentees and plaintiffs, having appeared on the plaintiff side in tracked cases such as Malikie Innovations Limited v. Core Scientific, Inc.

He has secured significant outcomes for his clients, including a $236 million jury verdict and an $84 million willful patent infringement verdict for Cirba Inc. (d/b/a Densify) against VMware in the District of Delaware, both recognized among top verdicts nationally. Houghton also achieved a victory for Corning Optical Communications in patent litigation at the International Trade Commission (ITC), which resulted in a General Exclusion Order upheld on appeal, barring infringing products from the U.S. He is also representing Broadcom in patent litigation against Netflix involving video streaming technology.

Houghton's experience extends to proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where he has managed both the filing and defense of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2017 and a B.S. in Chemistry, summa cum laude, from Northeastern University in 2014.