Jack Wesley "Wes" Hill

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Professional Summary — Jack Wesley "Wes" Hill

Practice focus and firm context. Wes Hill is a name partner at Ward, Smith & Hill, PLLC, a Longview, Texas trial boutique whose patent practice is built largely around serving as local counsel to national litigation teams in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. His docket spans high-tech and life-sciences patents — wireless communications (Cellular Communications Equipment v. Apple), satellite communications (Elbit Systems v. Hughes Network Systems), network/software security (the firm's VirnetX v. Apple work), consumer electronics and display technology (Solas OLED v. Samsung Display), and biologics (Seagen cancer-drug case) — alongside complex commercial, False Claims Act, oil and gas, and personal injury litigation. Firm bios describe him as an IP/patent litigator and trial lawyer rather than a registered patent prosecutor.

Side preference. Available sources indicate he works both sides rather than aligning with one. Benchmark Litigation's 2022 profile describes him as having "a successful track record for clients on both sides of the docket, including multimillion-dollar verdicts for plaintiffs and take-nothing defense wins." The tracked record here (1 appearance) lists him only as local counsel for the defendant in Uniloc USA, Inc. et al. v. Electronic Arts, Inc. Public E.D. Tex. filings also show Hill appearing for patent-owner plaintiffs, including Uniloc itself in related Uniloc matters and Cellular Communications Equipment LLC, an NPE — so the single tracked entry understates a much broader docket in both roles.

Notable matters. Reported results he is personally tied to include a $22 million verdict for Cellular Communications Equipment LLC against Apple (Sept. 2016, willful infringement of a wireless communications patent; recognized in Texas Lawyer's Top 100 Verdicts for Texas) and a $21.1 million verdict for Elbit Systems Ltd. against Hughes Network Systems over satellite communications patents, both with name partner Johnny Ward. He was also on the trial team that won a $41.8 million willful-infringement verdict for Seagen Inc. in a cancer-drug patent case (2022). Firm-level (not confirmed as his personal involvement): VirnetX v. Apple verdicts of $302.4M (2016) and $502.8M (2020), a $166M AT&T patent verdict (2023), and the $62.7M Solas OLED award. Earlier appearances include local-counsel work for defendants in WI-LAN v. Alcatel-Lucent and the consolidated Texas Instruments/Technicolor litigation.

PTAB/IPR, bar and education. There is no reliable public evidence that he maintains a regular PTAB/IPR practice; his profile is that of a district-court trial lawyer, and a handful of PTAB-side listings (e.g., counsel of record associated with IPR2020-00510) come from secondary aggregators and reexamination file-history exhibits that I could not independently confirm. Martindale reports: B.A., University of Texas at Tyler (1998, summa cum laude); J.D., Texas Tech University (2001, summa cum laude); admitted in Texas (2001), E.D. Tex. (2002), Fifth Circuit (2003), N.D. Tex. (2004), and the U.S. Supreme Court (2008); board certified in civil trial law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and a member of ABOTA. Prior firm listings (Carroll Maloney Henry & Nelson) appear in third-party databases but are not confirmed by a primary source.

Note on sourcing: verdict figures and characterization of Hill's individual role come largely from firm press releases and trade coverage; where attribution was firm-wide rather than individual, that is flagged above.