Matt Beck

Matt Beck — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus and specialty. Beck's practice centers on Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings — inter partes reviews, ex parte reexaminations, and related patent-office challenges — along with patent prosecution and counseling. His technical background is in computer science (B.S., Lafayette College), and his stated technology areas include video compression and encoding, artificial intelligence, networking, computer hardware and software, streaming media, and vehicle electrification. The tracked case list is consistent with an electronics/semiconductor and networking-oriented docket rather than pharma or mechanical work.

Side preference. Every tracked appearance is on the petitioner/plaintiff side (5 of 5), with no tracked defendant-side representations. That reflects his current in-house role at Unified Patents, a defensive patent aggregator that files IPRs and reexaminations challenging patents asserted against its member operating companies. In practical terms he attacks patents held by NPEs and assertion entities on behalf of operating-company members, rather than defending infringement suits directly; several of his PTAB filings have drawn real-party-in-interest discovery fights over Unified's relationship with member companies.

Firm context. Beck is currently Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents, LLC, where he handles PTAB filings. Before moving in-house he was an associate and litigator in the Washington, D.C. office of Haynes and Boone, LLP, in the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, where he also worked on Unified Patents matters as outside counsel. His tracked appearances that list Haynes and Boone reflect that earlier role; the "Unified Patents" appearances reflect his in-house position.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. Tracked representations include Unified Patents v. Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Unified Patents v. Marlin Semiconductor Ltd., Unified Patents v. Advanced Integrated Circuit Process LLC, Unified Patents v. Malikie Innovations Ltd., and Unified Patents Inc. v. Owner of US7704721. While at Haynes Boone he was counsel on Unified's ex parte reexamination against Entropic Communications' U.S. Patent 8,228,910 (a Fortress IP entity patent asserted against Comcast, Cox, Charter, and Dish), and he has appeared in Unified PTAB proceedings including IPR2021-01413 (MemoryWeb) and IPR2023-00029, the latter involving contested real-party-in-interest issues. He is a regular PTAB practitioner, and his publications reflect that emphasis (e.g., PTAB precedential-decision analysis in IPWatchdog, "Forum Selection Clauses May Bar an IPR").

Bar and education. Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 79,791) and admitted in the District of Columbia; J.D., American University Washington College of Law (2021); B.S. Computer Science, Lafayette College (2018).

Note on disambiguation: a different attorney, Matthew P. Becker of Banner Witcoff (Illinois bar, chemical engineering background), and a Matthew C. Beck Jr. appear in some search results; the record above is drawn from the PTAB filings, Haynes Boone bio, and Unified Patents materials matching the registration number and case list. Some third-party aggregator data on Beck's current firm appears stale and conflicts with the PTAB filings, which list him at Unified Patents. Verifiable verdicts or Federal Circuit outcomes specifically attributable to him were not located, so none are reported.