Daniel L. Moffett

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Daniel L. Moffett — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Moffett is a partner in Akin Gump's intellectual property practice in San Antonio, where IAM Patent 1000 (2024–2026) identifies him as the head of the firm's Texas IP practice and a "seasoned trial lawyer known for handling complex, multi-fighter disputes." Firm and Legal 500 profiles describe a generalist IP litigation practice — complex patent, trade secret, and trademark disputes, plus patent/trademark prosecution, licensing, and assignments — with client experience spanning medical devices, biotechnology, animal genetics, digital communications, database and internet software, and consumer/retail industries. His tracked docket is small and technology-heterogeneous rather than concentrated in a single field: streaming/voice-messaging software (Voxer) and wound-care dressings (Wound Healing Technologies). His own published commentary also reflects an active § 101 and IPR-estoppel focus.

Side preference. The tracked data shows a mixed practice rather than a one-sided book: two plaintiff-side and one defendant-side appearance. The plaintiff-side entries are Voxer, Inc. et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al. (lead counsel) and one Wound Healing Technologies v. Solventum entry; the defendant-side entry is the same Wound Healing caption, which appears to be a docketing artifact or reflects parallel proceedings rather than two opposing engagements. The verified record places him on the defense/petitioner side in that dispute: PTAB filings identify him as lead counsel for Solventum Corporation in IPR2025-01042 challenging Wound Healing Technologies' U.S. Patent No. 10,639,404, the patent asserted in Wound Healing Technologies Corp. v. Solventum Corp., No. 6:24-cv-589 (W.D. Tex.). On balance he is not a dedicated NPE/PAE plaintiffs' lawyer, but he does represent patent-owning plaintiffs such as Voxer (a practicing company that also litigates through a separate IP entity) alongside defense-side work for operating companies.

Firm context and notable matters. His entire tracked and search-verified career is with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (now branded "Akin"), San Antonio office; he was elevated to partner at the firm, and no prior firm appears in public profiles. The most prominent tracked matter is the Voxer litigation — Voxer sued Google and Amazon in Delaware federal court in July 2025, asserting network-reception patents that previously produced a $206 million jury verdict for Voxer against Meta in 2022 (that Meta verdict was later vacated following settlement, per Law360). Beyond the tracked list, public press releases and PTAB filings place him on Akin Gump teams representing Cytonome/ST in its long-running microfluidics/sexed-semen litigation against ABS Global, including a second jury verdict finding infringement of the '476 and '309 patents and a reasonable royalty, and a related PTAB claim-construction appeal decided by the Federal Circuit (ABS Global v. Cytonome/ST, precedential Oct. 2023). These additional appearances are outside the tracked set and should be treated as corroborating rather than authoritative.

PTAB / IPR experience and bar/education. He has first-chair PTAB experience, appearing as lead counsel in multiple inter partes reviews on both petitioner and patent-owner sides (e.g., Solventum as petitioner in IPR2025-01042; Cytonome/ST as patent owner in IPR2017-02097, IPR2020-00551, and IPR2021-00088), and he writes on parallel PTAB/district court strategy. He is registered to practice before the USPTO (Registration No. 60,715). Education: J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with high honors, 2005; B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 2000 (per Legal 500/Akin profile and UT Law alumni notes). I did not independently verify his state bar admissions, and no in-house affiliation is indicated.