Emily Brantley Tate

Emily Brantley Tate — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Practice focus and side. Ms. Tate's tracked patent work is concentrated in semiconductor/electronics litigation on behalf of Greenthread, LLC, a non-practicing patent monetization entity whose portfolio covers chip and integrated-circuit device technology (e.g., U.S. Patent Nos. 8,421,195; 9,190,502; 11,121,222; 11,316,014). All three tracked appearances involve Greenthread — two on the plaintiff/enforcement side (Greenthread v. Intel Corp.; Greenthread v. Texas Instruments Inc.) and one on the defense side (Texas Instruments Inc. v. Greenthread, LLC) — so her practice centers on representing this patent-assertion client in both offensive and defensive district-court litigation rather than a conventional operating-company defense docket. Her firm biographies describe broader IP and commercial dispute work across technology, consumer goods, and finance.

Firm context. Ms. Tate is currently an associate in the Litigation Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC in New York (per the firm's website and her 2026 New York bar registration). She previously was a litigation associate in the New York office of McKool Smith PC, where the Greenthread/Texas Instruments matters arose, and before that an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP handling financial-institution and SEC/DOJ investigation work. The Greenthread v. Intel matter is attributed in the record to "Tate IP Law," a firm name with little independent public footprint I could verify. Note: multiple attorneys share variations of this name; the E.D. Tex. docket for Greenthread v. Texas Instruments (No. 2:23-cv-157-JRG) confirms the full name Emily Brantley Tate, and her admission to the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas is consistent with her Texas forum appearances.

Notable matters and PTAB context. Her most prominent tracked matters are Greenthread's W.D. Tex./D. Or. suit against Intel Corp. and Dell (settled in April 2023, with Intel taking a license) and the related E.D. Tex. case against Texas Instruments before Judge Gilstrap. Those cases ran parallel to numerous IPRs — filed by TI, Cirrus Logic, onsemi/Semiconductor Components, and Monolithic Power Systems — challenging Greenthread's patents, with disputes over § 315(b) privity tied to the settled Intel litigation. I found no verifiable record of Ms. Tate personally appearing in those PTAB proceedings, so I would not characterize her as having a regular IPR practice based on available sources.

Bar and education. She is admitted in New York (2020) and to the S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., E.D. Tex., and W.D. Tex. district courts; she earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Boston College Law School and a B.S. from Tennessee Technological University. I found no source indicating USPTO registration as a patent attorney, so I would not assert that credential.