Eagle Howard Robinson

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Let me verify the tracked case and a few career details.

One more round to pin down the district court case and his Federal Circuit argument record.

Eagle H. Robinson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Robinson's practice is concentrated in patent litigation and post-grant proceedings, with substantial patent prosecution and IP-transaction work alongside it. His firm bio describes mechanical and electrical technologies: medical devices (endoscopy, intraosseous access, endovascular catheters, biosensors, surgical robots), oil and gas completion/stimulation and well-control systems, manufacturing and rapid-prototyping/packaging, consumer and construction products, optical filters and imaging, and card payment/information systems. The tracked FedEx matter involves sensor-based logistics and shipment-tracking patents (RFID/sensor networks) — i.e., electrical/software-adjacent hardware rather than pharmaceutical or Wi-Fi-standards litigation.

Side preference. Predominantly defense-side. The tracked case list shows one appearance, entirely on the defendant side (Qualcomm). That is consistent with his PTAB profile, where he acts as petitioner's counsel invalidating asserted patents (Qualcomm in the FedEx IPRs) while also representing patent owners defending validity — notably a Fortune 300 oilfield services company in a multi-forum fracking dispute and an oil-and-gas company where he obtained IPR invalidation of all asserted claims plus a litigation stay and Federal Circuit affirmance. There is no tracked record of him prosecuting infringement claims for NPEs/PAEs; his plaintiff-side work appears limited to patent-owner defense of validity in PTAB and prosecution/portfolio work.

Firm context. He is at Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP in Austin, Texas, and serves as US Head of Patents; he was appointed in November 2022 to lead the firm's US patent prosecution and IP transactions group, succeeding Mark Wilson. His registration records show an earlier affiliation with Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in Austin — the legacy firm that combined into Norton Rose Fulbright in 2013 — so his career appears to have been at the same Austin office through that combination. He spent two years during law school as a patent agent and law clerk at an Oklahoma City IP firm. (Note: the tracked docket entry lists his role as "of counsel," while the firm's own materials identify him as a partner and practice head; the tracked data may reflect how he was designated on that filing.)

Notable matters and outcomes. His most prominent publicly documented matter is Qualcomm's IPR campaign against Federal Express patents (IPR2022-00584 through -00587, involving U.S. Patents 7,623,033, 8,766,797 and 9,182,231, filed on the last day of co-defendant Roambee's § 315(b) window while Qualcomm was a non-party to FedEx's Delaware suit against Roambee). Qualcomm won at the PTAB — all challenged claims held unpatentable — and the Federal Circuit's April 29, 2026 rulings were mixed: in No. 24-1236 (precedential), FedEx's real-party-in-interest challenge was held unreviewable under § 314(d), but the obviousness determination was vacated and remanded for failing to address contested arguments; No. 24-1235 (nonprecedential) held "programming change" requires a change in function and remanded; No. 24-1237 vacated in part on Administrative Procedure Act grounds. He also argued a successful Rule 12(b)(6) motion in the Eastern District of Virginia invalidating all claims of two asserted patents as patent-ineligible, and successfully argued a Federal Circuit appeal affirming an IPR decision. Separately, Patexia's PTAB 2025 Intelligence Report ranked him the best-performing lawyer overall (petitioner and patent-owner combined) for the second consecutive year.

PTAB/IPR experience. Extensive and a clear signature of his practice — he is lead or named counsel in numerous IPRs and PGRs, with both petitioner-side invalidation wins and patent-owner-side full-claim confirmations, and he has argued PTAB appeals before the Federal Circuit. He is a frequent author on post-grant topics.

Bar/education. Registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 61,361); admitted in Texas and before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Texas federal district courts. J.D. with honors, University of Oklahoma (2008 per Best Lawyers); B.S. summa cum laude in mechanical engineering, University of Oklahoma.

One caveat: beyond the single tracked matter and the matters described on his firm profile and in PTAB/Federal Circuit filings, I could not independently verify the docket-level details of every engagement attributed to him, and some firm-bio descriptions are self-reported.