Mark A. Speegle

Mark A. Speegle — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Speegle is an IP litigator in Baker Botts's Austin office whose practice spans patent, trade secret, and IP damages work. His firm profile and case history describe matters involving semiconductor devices, servers and memory (DRAM/flash, BGA/wafer-level packaging), unmanned aircraft and drone flight-control systems, transcatheter heart valve and mitral valve medical devices, robotics, consumer and commercial electronics, back-end sales software, and mechanical appliances such as water filters. He is also frequently responsible for the damages case within IP disputes. There is no indication of a chemical/pharma or life-sciences patent docket; the technology mix skews electrical, semiconductor, software, and mechanical.

Side preference. The four tracked appearances are predominantly defense-side (3 defendant, 1 plaintiff), consistent with his firm bio's emphasis on "defending a global technology leader against NPE patent litigation." He is not solely a defense lawyer: he has served as plaintiff-side counsel (e.g., Textron Innovations in its Waco drone suit against DJI), and tracked cases include back-up counsel for Samsung as petitioner/plaintiff against W&Wsens Devices. In the tracked matters he appears as counsel of record for defendant Tesla in Perceptive Automata, LLC v. Tesla, Inc. (W.D. Tex.), and as defense counsel for Dell in General Video LLC v. Dell, i.e., as defense counsel against non-practicing-entity plaintiffs rather than as counsel prosecuting NPE claims. One tracked matter appears in the dataset without a case name and cannot be identified from available sources.

Firm context. Speegle has been at Baker Botts throughout his tracked patent litigation career; he was elected to the firm's partnership in the February 2023 class (Intellectual Property, Austin). No prior firm history is disclosed in available sources. He is not in-house.

Notable cases and outcomes. The most significant verifiable result from external reporting is Textron Innovations Inc. v. SZ DJI Technology Co. (W.D. Tex.), where a Waco jury returned a $278.9 million verdict for Textron in April 2023 on drone flight-control patents, with Speegle on the Baker Botts trial team and arguing for Textron at pretrial hearings. His firm bio also reports a defendant-side result in which a jury's patent infringement award was limited to $2.1 million; the specific case is not identified in the source and I could not independently verify it. Perceptive Automata v. Tesla remains pending, with Tesla (represented by Speegle as counsel of record) moving to stay the W.D. Tex. case pending IPR.

PTAB / IPR experience. He appears regularly in PTAB proceedings, generally as back-up or arguing counsel on the petitioner side. Verified examples include Infineon Technologies AG v. Arigna Technology (IPR2021-01382); Samsung Electronics v. Netlist (IPR2022-00996/-00999, involving DRAM/memory-module patents, with a Director Review denial); Semiconductor Components Industries (onsemi) v. Greenthread (IPR2023-01242/-01243/-01244 and IPR2024-00018-related work, where he handled oral argument); and Tesla, Inc. v. Perceptive Automata LLC (IPR2025-01573 through -01577).

Bar / education. Admitted in California (2013) and Texas (2019); registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 77,512); also admitted before the Federal Circuit and the E.D./W.D. Tex. and C.D. Cal. district courts. J.D., University of Texas School of Law (2013); B.S., University of Southern California (2010).