Mackenzie Marie Martin

Specialty / focus areas. Mackenzie Marie Martin is an IP attorney with an electrical-engineering background (B.S., Kansas State) whose practice spans patent litigation, counseling, licensing, and prosecution. Firm bios describe experience across software, networks, communication systems, integrated circuits, semiconductor and memory technology, optics, LEDs, solar cells, medical devices, financial systems, and display technology, plus China-related IP matters. Her tracked case fits the software/networking side: Context Directions LLC v. Ean Holdings, LLC d/b/a Enterprise Rent A Car et al. (E.D. Tex. 4:22-cv-00577), a mobile-device context-detection patent suit.

Side preference / tracked case. The single tracked appearance is on the defendant side (1 defendant, 0 plaintiff), serving as local counsel for EAN Holdings and related Enterprise Rent-A-Car entities against NPE Context Directions LLC. Docket filings show she entered her appearance in August 2022 and filed the reply supporting defendants' motion to change venue; the case was stayed in late 2022/early 2023 before Judge Amos Mazzant. Her broader practice is not NPE-oriented — USPTO applicant data and firm materials indicate she primarily represents operating companies (e.g., Qualys, Veeva Systems, The Trade Desk) in litigation and portfolio work, though her bio also covers ITC and PTAB proceedings.

Firm context. Martin spent over 14 years at Baker McKenzie (Dallas, with stints in Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai), rising from associate to partner and serving as co-lead of the firm's Global Patent Practice/Global Patent Prosecution Practice. Per World IP Review (2025) and The Org, she left Baker McKenzie and became Senior IP Counsel at Schneider Electric in September 2025 — her current role. The tracked case was handled during her Baker McKenzie tenure.

PTAB / IPR; bar / education. Her published bios note experience before the USPTO PTAB and the ITC, though I could not verify specific IPR/PGR matters by name in available sources. She is admitted in Texas (2008) and before the Fifth Circuit and the Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas, holds USPTO Reg. No. 77950, and earned her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis (2008). I found no verified public record of a verdict or Federal Circuit appeal in the tracked case; the docket indicates it was still pending in early 2023.