Darby Vincent Doan

Darby Vincent Doan is a partner at Haltom & Doan, practicing from the firm's Texarkana and Marshall offices. His litigation practice encompasses a broad range of areas, with intellectual property being a key focus alongside commercial and business litigation, product liability, and personal injury. Haltom & Doan is recognized for its work in IP disputes, frequently handling patent litigation for clients in the telecommunications, technology, and entertainment sectors.

In his patent litigation work, Mr. Doan generally appears on the defense side. His sole tracked patent case involved representing Netflix, Inc. as local counsel in Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. Netflix, Inc. The firm, Haltom & Doan, demonstrates a strong defense-oriented practice in patent matters, having secured complete defense verdicts and dismissals for high-profile technology companies in patent infringement cases through the work of its partners.

While specific individual patent trial victories for Mr. Doan are not detailed in public profiles, he is an active partner within Haltom & Doan, which was established in 2004. The firm emphasizes its experience in complex civil trial and appellate matters across state and federal courts in Texas and Arkansas. There is no publicly available information indicating regular appearances by Mr. Doan in PTAB or IPR proceedings.

Mr. Doan was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1995 and is also licensed to practice in Arkansas. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of Texas, the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Southern Methodist University School of Law in 1995, and holds a B.B.A. from Abilene Christian University.