Matthew L. Vitale

I'll research this attorney before drafting the summary.

Let me dig into the notable cases and PTAB/bar details.

Professional Summary — Matthew L. Vitale (Winstead PC)

Focus areas. Vitale is a member of Winstead's Business Litigation Practice Group in Dallas, where his practice is described as complex patent litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, with stated experience in image processing and accelerated erasure coding (Winstead firm profile). His two tracked appearances are both patent cases: StreamScale, Inc. v. Cloudera, Inc. (W.D. Tex., before Judge Alan Albright), involving data-storage/erasure-coding patents, and ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (E.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00409), a licensing-entity suit against Samsung. Both fit a data/software and networking-adjacent technology profile rather than pharma, life sciences, or mechanical arts.

Side preference. The tracked record is entirely plaintiff-side (2 plaintiff, 0 defendant). His clients to date are patent owners and licensing vehicles — StreamScale, a patent-holding company, and ASUS Technology Licensing Inc./Celerity IP, LLC, patent-licensing entities. That said, two appearances is a thin sample; there is no basis in the available record to describe him as a defense-side or operating-company litigator, nor to rule it out.

Firm context. Vitale has been at Winstead PC throughout his tracked patent litigation work; no prior firm history surfaced in searchable sources. State licensing records list him as a Winstead attorney in Dallas with a Texas license date of October 9, 2023, consistent with an early-career associate; Winstead's team listing and ZoomInfo both identify him as an associate. He is not in-house.

Notable matters. The most prominent is StreamScale v. Cloudera, where he was a member of the Winstead trial team (led by Jamie McDole, alongside Irell & Manella and the Ciccarelli Law Firm) that obtained a $240 million jury verdict on October 13, 2023, with the jury finding all asserted claims of three erasure-coding patents infringed and none invalid. The firm's profile phrases this as "all four asserted claims" and "all three asserted patents"; press coverage uniformly describes three patents. Cloudera moved for judgment as a matter of law and a new trial and the verdict was contested — I could not verify the final disposition of post-trial motions or any appeal, so the $240 million figure should be treated as the jury result, not a final judgment. His second matter, the ASUS/Celerity suit against Samsung, is ongoing in E.D. Tex.; no outcome is documented.

PTAB / IPR. I found no verified PTAB appearance by this attorney. Related Intel IPRs (e.g., IPR2021-01330, IPR2021-01408) exist in the StreamScale patent family, but his name does not appear on those papers. Separately, several PTAB documents reference a Chicago firm named "Vitale, Vickrey, Niro & Gasey LLP" — that is a firm name, not evidence of this attorney's PTAB practice, and should not be conflated with him.

Bar / education. Texas-licensed (license date October 9, 2023, per state licensing records). Education is not reliably sourced in the material available, so I have omitted it.