Jason M. Wietholter

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Professional Summary — Jason M. Wietholter

Focus areas. Wietholter's practice is high-technology patent and IP litigation. His tracked docket is concentrated in wireless and mobile communications — the Headwater Research matters involve device-assisted traffic control, aggregated push messaging, secure wireless messaging and network provisioning, and data-usage/battery-life reduction in handsets, tablets and networks. It also extends to consumer-device software and HVAC controls (the EcoFactor smart-thermostat cases against Google and ecobee) and to advertising/data-oriented patents (the Datonics matters against The Trade Desk and Neustar). No pharma, life-sciences, or mechanical-art work appears in the tracked list or in searchable coverage.

Side preference. He is overwhelmingly a plaintiff/patent-owner side litigator: 12 of 13 tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, and he is one of the Russ August & Kabat attorneys who regularly prosecute the Headwater Research portfolio — a Tyler, Texas patent-assertion entity founded by inventor Gregory Raleigh — against large operating companies including Google, Samsung, Apple, Verizon, Amazon, Charter, DISH, Uber, Tencent, and Motorola/Lenovo. The one defendant-side entry, Google LLC v. Headwater Research LLC, is a defensive posture for the same client, not defense-side work for an operating company. Public dockets also show him on plaintiff-side filings for BoomCloud 360. On the tracked record he does not defend technology companies against patent claims.

Firm context and notable results. He is a partner at Russ August & Kabat in Los Angeles, in the firm's litigation and trial / patent litigation groups. His pre-legal career was as a trial consultant (not a prior law firm); no earlier law firm practice is identified in searchable sources. Most prominent tracked matters: Headwater Research LLC v. Samsung — $278.79 million jury verdict on April 25, 2025 in E.D. Tex. (final judgment with prejudgment interest reported at roughly $340 million; the PTAB invalidated the asserted claims of one of the two patents in July 2025, and the parties settled in September 2025); Headwater Research LLC v. Cellco Partnership (Verizon) — $175 million jury verdict on July 23, 2025, followed by an April 23, 2026 final judgment holding that Headwater could not enforce the asserted patents under implied waiver and naming Verizon the prevailing party, with reporting of a subsequent confidential settlement; and the EcoFactor thermostat campaigns — a $20 million verdict against Google (2022; affirmed on appeal in 2024, then vacated as to damages and remanded for a new damages trial on Federal Circuit rehearing en banc in 2025) and a $5.4 million verdict plus JMOL of no invalidity against ecobee. He is listed as lead counsel in the tracked Headwater cases against Amazon and Uber. Note that RAK's own bio asserts his degree of involvement in those trial results and is self-reported; the verdict and judgment figures themselves are corroborated in court filings and press coverage.

PTAB/IPR and credentials. He appears as counsel for Headwater as Patent Owner in PTAB proceedings, including IPR2024-01180 and IPR2024-01181 (Motorola/Lenovo) and IPR2024-01407 (Samsung), so he has recurring IPR experience on the patent-owner side rather than as a petitioner. He is admitted to the State Bar of California (Bar No. 337139, admitted May 21, 2021) and holds a JD from the University of Tulsa College of Law (2020, valedictorian/summa cum laude) and a BS from Oklahoma State University (2008).