Jacqueline T. Moran

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Good foundation. Let me verify the TSMC case, the IPR outcome, and any WilmerHale connection.

Jacqueline T. Moran, Ph.D. — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Moran's practice centers on patent litigation across a technically diverse docket, with a stated emphasis on semiconductors, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals (including Hatch-Waxman work). Her firm biography also identifies 5G network components, automobile parts, mechanical safety devices, and refrigerants among her case technologies, and notes experience with both design and utility patents and appearances before the International Trade Commission and federal district courts. Her scientific background is in neuroscience (patch-clamp electrophysiology, molecular biology, pharmacology), which supports the life-sciences and medical-device side of the practice; her semiconductor work is reinforced by a secondment at an international semiconductor company.

Side of the table. The tracked data is uniformly defense-side — 0 plaintiff-side and 3 defendant-side appearances — and the most significant tracked matter, Advanced Integrated Circuit Process LLC v. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (E.D. Tex., lead case 2:24-cv-00730-JRG, consolidated with 2:24-cv-00623), is a defensive representation of TSMC against an NPE-style semiconductor plaintiff. Public records, however, show she has also worked patent-owner side: she was admitted pro hac vice for The Regents of the University of Michigan and The University of South Florida Board of Trustees in N.D. Cal. Case No. 4:22-cv-04913, and in the related PTAB proceeding discussed below. The tracked-appearances dataset does not capture those patent-owner representations, so the "0 plaintiff" count should not be read as a strict NPE-defense-only practice.

Firm context. Moran is a Houston-based associate at Fish & Richardson P.C. (Texas Bar No. 24121740), where she returned after a 2019 summer associateship and a 2017 externship at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Note a data discrepancy: the tracked case list attributes the TSMC matter to Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, but the public docket reflects filings by Fish & Richardson attorneys (Jennifer Truelove, Karrie Wheatley, Tony Nguyen, and Moran) on behalf of TSMC, and Moran's notice of appearance in that case was filed in December 2024. I found no corroborating public record of a WilmerHale tenure, so the firm attribution in the source data appears to be incorrect or stale. The two "untitled" tracked entries correspond to appearances as counsel and as pro hac vice counsel that are not otherwise identifiable from the record provided.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. Beyond the TSMC consolidated litigation, her most documented matter is the dispute over U.S. Patent No. 10,633,344, where she concurrently represented the patent owner in district court and moved for pro hac vice admission in Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. The Regents of the University of Michigan, IPR2023-01347 (motion filed May 1, 2024, citing roughly four years of patent litigation experience and familiarity with the '344 patent's prosecution history and prior art). That is the only IPR appearance I could verify; there is no public indication she is a regular lead PTAB practitioner, and I could not verify the final written decision or outcome in IPR2023-01347 from available sources. No verdicts, Federal Circuit results, or settlements attributable to her individually were verifiable.

Bar and education. Admitted to the State Bar of Texas on December 4, 2020; J.D., Tulane University Law School (2020, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property); Ph.D., Neuroscience, Tulane University (2016); B.S., Physiology and Neuroscience, UC San Diego (2010).

Caveat: this profile rests on the Fish & Richardson firm biography, PTAB and district court filings (including her Texas bar certification and pro hac vice applications), and public dockets. Details not supported by those sources have been omitted rather than inferred.