Faye Paul Teller

Specialty / Focus Areas. Faye Paul Teller is a trial-focused patent litigator whose work centers on technology and life sciences disputes. Per her firm profile, she has defended infringement claims involving Wi-Fi, FPGA, and Power over Ethernet technologies for Google, Intel, and HPE; a pharmaceutical company's antiviral treatment; and a medical device maker's intraoral scanner. She regularly handles bench and jury trials and frequently steps in as trial counsel near trial.

Side Preference. Teller is overwhelmingly defense-side. Her single tracked patent appearance — Advanced Cluster Systems, Inc. v. Intel Corporation (W.D. Tex., before Judge Albright) — was as pro hac vice counsel for defendant Intel, consistent with her stated practice of defending operating companies against infringement claims. I found no evidence of NPE/PAE prosecution work.

Firm Context. Teller is a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (Los Angeles), which she joined in 2022 and was elevated to partner effective January 1, 2023. Before MTO she was a partner at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP in Chicago, a trial boutique. She clerked for Judge Thomas L. Ambro (Third Circuit) and Judge Edmond E. Chang (N.D. Ill.). Her broader docket also includes non-patent matters, such as representing Snap Inc. in the social-media adolescent addiction MDL.

Notable Cases / PTAB / Bar. The tracked Advanced Cluster Systems v. Intel matter is active before Judge Albright, with a claim-construction hearing held August 2025; Law360 also lists her on Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc. and Carefirst of Maryland v. Amgen (antitrust, E.D. Va.). I found no indication of regular IPR/PGR practice — her profile emphasizes district-court trial work. Education: J.D., University of Chicago Law School (2011); admitted in California (Bar No. 343506) and appeared pro hac vice in Texas.