David Neal

I'll research this attorney before drafting. Note the tracked case list is thin (two "Untitled" matters), so I'll rely on web search for background and flag what I can't verify.

Good — found his Winstead bio and a PTAB filing listing him. Let me dig into specific matters and credentials.

Let me pin down the MOSAID IPR and his credentials.

Professional Summary — David Neal (Winstead PC)

Specialty / focus. Neal is a member of Winstead's Business Litigation Practice Group, with a practice concentrated on intellectual property litigation — patents, trade dress, and trade secrets. Winstead's own practice description identifies his technical experience across signal processing, software, computer architecture, medical training devices, and machine learning/artificial intelligence, and notes that he worked as an engineer before entering law. That profile points to an electronics/software and computer-implemented-technology docket rather than pharma or life sciences chemistry, though the practice description is general and I found no published opinion or brief that lets me confirm the specific technology areas of his own docket.

Side preference. The authoritative appearance data shows two tracked matters, both filed on the plaintiff side, with no tracked defendant-side appearances. Both are with Winstead (one as Associate, one as Attorney). I was unable to obtain the case captions for those two tracked matters, so I cannot name them or verify outcomes, and the sample is small enough that it should not be read as a firm statement about his practice mix. That said, the plaintiff-side pattern is at least consistent with Winstead's patent-owner/plaintiff-side work. The one USPTO filing I could verify lists him as back-up counsel in an IPR captioned to MOSAID Technologies Inc. (IPR2024-00599, U.S. Patent No. 7,224,563), filed October 30, 2024, alongside lead counsel Jamie H. McDole and registered practitioner David W. Higer — both of Winstead's Dallas office. MOSAID is a well-known patent licensing entity, but the filing does not state which side Winstead represented and I could not verify the posture, so I would not characterize him as either an NPE-side or operating-company-side lawyer on that record alone.

Notable cases or outcomes. None verified. Neither of the two tracked matters is identified by name in the data available to me, and my searches surfaced no verdict, settlement, Federal Circuit appeal, or reported decision attributable to Neal individually. Winstead's patent group has public PTAB wins (e.g., the February 2025 final written decisions for Westport Fuel Systems in IPR2023-00292/00293), but those were handled by named shareholders Miranda Jones, David Higer, and Phillip Philbin, and attributing them to Neal would be inaccurate.

PTAB / IPR experience. One verified PTAB appearance (IPR2024-00599, as back-up counsel). That is not enough to say he "appears regularly" in IPR/PGR proceedings; the honest read is that his PTAB experience is limited or recent relative to his district court work.

Bar / education. Not reliably sourced. The Winstead bio confirms an engineering background prior to law but states no law school, undergraduate institution, bar admissions, or registration number, and I found no State Bar of Texas or USPTO registration record matching him within the sources reviewed. Recommend pulling his Winstead full bio, Texas bar profile, and USPTO registration number directly before publishing anything on credentials.

Name caution: at least one PTAB document refers to him as "David A. Neal"; the Winstead Dallas phone/email (214-745-5632, dneal@winstead.com) matches the firm bio, so those are the same person, but searches for "David Neal patent attorney" surface several unrelated lawyers and a semi-retired federal judge — any further research should pin the name to the Winstead Dallas office.

Sources: Winstead firm bio (winstead.com/People/David-Neal); USPTO PTAB petition documents for IPR2024-00599 (ptacts.uspto.gov); Winstead firm news release, Feb. 17, 2025 (Westport PTAB decisions — firm/team context only).