Jason Wietjes

Specialty / focus areas. Jason Wietjes is an IP litigator and registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 55,774) whose work spans both enforcement and defense across a broad technology range. His most visible representation — defending Power2B Inc.'s optical touch-sensing and input-device patents against Samsung — sits at the intersection of consumer-electronics hardware, sensor/optics systems, and claim-construction-heavy interface technology. His docket also includes software/AI litigation (representing defendant Hugging Face in FriendliAI Inc. v. Hugging Face, Inc., D. Del. No. 1:23-cv-00816), oil-and-gas process patents (the Vapor Point inventorship battle), and biosimilars/life-sciences work, consistent with his biochemistry background and service as chairman of BioNTX.

Side preference. The tracked case is defendant-side: Wietjes defended patent owner Power2B against Samsung's IPR petitions (i.e., in the posture of respondent/patent owner). He is not NPE-only or defendant-only, however — Polsinelli materials describe him as representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex IP disputes, and he has prosecuted infringement claims for patent owners. The available record points to a practice weighted toward patent owners and technology companies defending or asserting portfolios, with a meaningful startup/licensing advisory component.

Firm context. Shareholder at Polsinelli PC in Dallas since 2015, where he joined with Michael Pegues as part of the firm's first wave of patent litigators in Dallas. He previously practiced at Bracewell & Giuliani (now Bracewell). He is a former Texas Super Lawyers "Rising Star" (2013) and has been listed in Best Lawyers (Litigation – IP, Litigation – Patent, Trademark Law) since 2024.

Notable cases / outcomes. In the flagship Power2B v. Samsung campaign, Wietjes appeared across multiple district court actions (E.D. Tex. No. 2:21-cv-00348; W.D. Tex. Waco No. 6:20-cv-01183) and at least seven IPRs (IPR2021-01190, -01220, -01239, -01257, -01266; IPR2022-00315, -00325), with Federal Circuit appeals culminating in mixed 2025 results — Power2B v. Samsung, No. 23-2184 (May 2025, affirmed-in-part/reversed-in-part), Samsung v. Power2B, No. 23-1630 (Feb. 2025, reversing the Board's claim construction of "impingement"), and Samsung v. Power2B, No. 23-2121 (Nov. 2025). He also won a four-day inventorship hearing in Vapor Point v. Moorhead (S.D. Tex.), affirmed on appeal.

PTAB / IPR experience. Substantial. Wietjes was lead/backup patent-owner counsel in a coordinated multi-IPR defense of Power2B's portfolio against Samsung, including final written decisions and repeated Federal Circuit appeals of Board decisions — indicating deep, repeat PTAB practice.

Bar / education. Texas bar (2003); J.D., University of Nebraska College of Law (2003); B.S. biochemistry, University of Nebraska (2000).