Matt A. Colvin

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Matt A. Colvin — Principal, Fish & Richardson P.C., Dallas office. Firm biography describes a complex IP litigation practice that also includes commercial litigation and Hatch-Waxman work, with technical experience in network architecture, oil and gas drilling, aerospace structures, composite materials, manufacturing, firearms, and medical devices; the firm notes his particular strength in complex mechanical systems. His pre-law background as a U.S. Air Force aircraft battle damage repair engineer and structural engineering instructor (B.S. Engineering Mechanics, U.S. Air Force Academy, 2005) is consistent with the mechanical/aerospace tilt of his docket.

Side preference. Within the tracked dataset he is plaintiff-side only — one appearance, as lead counsel, in Rare Breed Triggers Inc. et al. v. Z3 Productions LLC — enforcing forced-reset trigger patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 12,038,247 and 12,031,784) for plaintiffs ABC IP, LLC and Rare Breed Triggers, Inc. Public dockets show that case is part of a coordinated multi-defendant campaign now consolidated as MDL No. 3176, In re: Rare Breed Triggers Patent Litigation, in the Eastern District of Texas before Chief Judge Amos L. Mazzant, where Colvin appears repeatedly for the plaintiffs. The plaintiff-only count therefore reflects a single tracked matter rather than an exclusively plaintiff-side practice: the broader public record shows him on both sides, including defending patent owner Mayborn (UK) Limited in the Nanobebe litigation and representing patent owner Chiaro Technology in a recent dispute.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. Beyond the Rare Breed/ABC IP campaign — where docket entries reflect a preliminary injunction posture, a clerk's entry of default against Trinity Trigger, LLC (August 2026), and defendants' joined motion to stay the injunction pending Federal Circuit appeals (September 2026) — Colvin has appeared for Tesla as backup counsel in Tesla, Inc. v. Autonomous Devices LLC (IPR2023-01054) and in the parallel district court case over neural-network patents, in Samsung Electronics v. Netlist IPR materials, in Nanobebe US Inc. v. Mayborn (UK) Ltd. (S.D.N.Y. Markman; district case stayed pending instituted IPRs), and in Shenzhen Root Technology v. Chiaro Technology (W.D. Wash.), including a Sotera-style stipulation in IPR2025-00554. He thus appears in IPR/PGR proceedings with some regularity, though often as backup rather than lead counsel. His firm bio credits him with 30+ depositions, three Markman arguments, and directing a witness at trial; no litigated verdict or Federal Circuit decision is reliably attributable to him in the sources reviewed.

Bar and education. Admitted in Texas (2013; Texas Bar No. 24087331) and registered before the USPTO (Reg. No. 66,843); J.D., University of Virginia School of Law (2013). He joined Fish & Richardson as a summer associate in 2011 and was elevated to principal in January 2021.

Note on sources: the tracked case list contains one appearance, while Law360, PACER/CourtListener, and USPTO PTAB filings show a substantially larger docket footprint; the additional matters above are drawn from those public filings and are reported as such, not as additions to the authoritative case list.