Kelly Tidwell

Kelly Tidwell is a Partner at Patton Tidwell & Culbertson, L.L.P., where his practice encompasses complex civil and commercial litigation, including areas such as antitrust and agricultural law. Within patent litigation, his tracked experience highlights a focus on representing plaintiffs, having exclusively appeared on the plaintiff side in the cases reviewed.

His patent litigation experience includes serving as local counsel for Pantech Corporation et al. in the significant case of Pantech Corporation et al. v. OnePlus Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. in the Eastern District of Texas. This case involved patents related to wireless communication and user interface technologies utilized in smartphones. In March 2024, a jury found that OnePlus willfully infringed five of Pantech's patents, deemed the patents valid, and awarded Pantech substantial damages. The case is currently under appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

While the Pantech v. OnePlus litigation has led to related inter partes review (IPR) proceedings initiated by OnePlus against Pantech's patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Kelly Tidwell's direct involvement in these specific PTAB proceedings is not explicitly detailed in available sources.

Kelly Tidwell earned his B.S. from Texas A&M University in 1984 and his J.D. from South Texas College of Law in 1987. He is admitted to practice in Texas (1987) and Arkansas (1988), as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas and the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Circuits.