Corey R. Houmand

Corey R. Houmand — Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (Palo Alto / Silicon Valley)

Specialty and technology focus. Houmand is a general IP litigator whose docket skews toward electronics, video coding, and medical-device technology rather than pharma or chemical work. The two tracked matters both involve standard-adjacent digital technology: VideoLabs, Inc. v. HP Inc. (W.D. Tex., Waco Div.), which asserted video coding/conditional-access and content-delivery patents, and Nokia Technologies Oy v. HP, Inc. (D. Del.), which involves ten patents asserted as essential to the ITU-T H.264 and H.265 video standards and turned substantially on FRAND and standard-setting conduct. Public filings also show him on briefs in wireless/mobile-interface disputes (e.g., CyWee Group Ltd. v. LG Electronics, TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc.) and in a mechanical/medical-device patent contest (LifeScan, Inc. v. Facet Technologies, LLC). The Nokia/HP and LifeScan matters give him meaningful exposure to SEP/FRAND and standards-essentiality issues.

Side preference. Within the tracked data he is exclusively defense-side (0 plaintiff, 2 defendant), defending operating companies. Broader public records show a genuinely mixed practice, however: he has appeared for both defendants and plaintiffs/complainants, including representing Oracle in the Oracle v. Rimini Street litigation and respondent-side interests in ASM International-related proceedings. He is best characterized as an operating-company litigator rather than an NPE-side filer.

Firm context. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is the only firm of record in his tracked matters, and it appears to be the only firm of his career — he joined Morgan Lewis directly after completing clerkships (2009–2010). He does not appear to have in-house or prior-firm history relevant to the patent practice.

Notable cases, outcomes, and PTAB work. The most prominent tracked matters are VideoLabs v. HP (claim-construction and Markman briefing on the ’059 and ’236 patents; the case settled, with a notice of settlement in March 2025 and dismissal in May 2025) and Nokia Technologies Oy v. HP, in which the District of Delaware partially granted Nokia’s motion to dismiss HP’s counterclaims — upholding HP’s breach-of-contract and unenforceability counterclaims but dismissing HP’s Section 2 Sherman Act claim for failure to plead a relevant market. He also has verifiable appellate experience: in TS Patents LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2018) he was on the appellee brief and the Federal Circuit affirmed. On the PTAB side, he is listed among counsel for petitioner LifeScan in LifeScan, Inc. v. Facet Technologies, LLC, IPR2023-00712 and IPR2023-00713, where the Board’s final written decision (Aug. 2024) held all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,840,635 unpatentable and denied the patent owner’s request for Director Review. His IPR activity appears periodic rather than a dedicated practice, based on available records.

Bar and education. Admitted to the State Bar of California (Bar No. 268366, Dec. 2009) and to the Federal Circuit, Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and several California district courts; Wake Forest University (B.S. 2003) and Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D. 2008); former law clerk to Judge Mary Beck Briscoe (10th Cir.) and Judge Samuel G. Wilson (W.D. Va.).