Frank D. Cimino

Attorney Summary: Frank D. Cimino

Identity note and specialty. Public records must be read carefully here because multiple patent practitioners share this name. The tracked attorney, "Frank D. Cimino," appears distinct from Frank C. Cimino, Jr., the well-known Venable LLP trial partner (formerly Dickstein Shapiro) who is Chambers-ranked for DC IP litigation and regularly appears as lead counsel in PTAB IPRs for automotive clients. Based on the middle initial and the case mix, the tracked attorney more likely matches Frank Domenico Cimino, a Dallas-based patent attorney long associated with Texas Instruments (TI's 13588 N. Central Expy. address appears on his Texas bar listing), whose USPTO prosecution work on TI patents covered semiconductor memory devices, MEMS packaging, and electroplating of MEMS devices. That technical profile is consistent with the sole tracked case, which involves TI as a defendant.

Side preference and firm context. The tracked docket shows a pure defense posture: one appearance as lead counsel for defendant Texas Instruments in Greenthread LLC v. Texas Instruments Incorporated, with the firm recorded as Sidley Austin. No plaintiff-side/NPE appearances are tracked. Notably, no public source independently corroborates a Sidley Austin affiliation for any "Frank D. Cimino" — the well-sourced affiliations are Texas Instruments (in-house, per bar and USPTO records) and Venable/Dickstein Shapiro (for the unrelated Frank C. Cimino, Jr.). If the docket reflects an in-house TI attorney designated as lead counsel with Sidley as outside counsel, that would be consistent with his TI background; otherwise, the firm attribution should be treated as unverified.

Notable cases, PTAB/IPR, and credentials. The tracked matter is an NPE assertion against TI (the Greenthread line of Wi-Fi/semiconductor patent suits); no verdict or settlement in that specific case could be verified. There is no evidence that the tracked Frank D. Cimino appears in IPR/PGR proceedings — the substantial PTAB practice belongs to the Venable attorney of similar name. Education and bar data are reliably sourced only for the TI-affiliated candidate: B.A., University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (1995); J.D., Southern Methodist University (2000); Texas bar; registered before the USPTO. Given the name ambiguity, these credentials should be confirmed against the specific docket before being relied on.