Matthew Robert Stephens

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Professional summary — Matthew Robert Stephens

Focus areas. His tracked and publicly docketed patent work sits mainly in consumer electronics and communications-adjacent technology: voice/smart-speaker and server-based control systems (Smart Speaker LLC v. Amazon.com Services LLC, E.D. Tex.), augmented-reality design patents (AR Design Innovations LLC v. Amazon.com), and — per a third-party docket-analytics profile — semiconductor/optics, mechanical/manufacturing, and transportation/e-commerce matters. He also appears on a life-sciences diagnostics matter, listed among the Morrison & Foerster team that obtained summary judgment for NeoGenomics in the Middle District of North Carolina (reported by a secondary trade blog; no primary opinion located). His earlier Newport Beach practice included trademark litigation.

Side preference. The tracked sample is defense-only: 0 plaintiff-side appearances and 2 defendant-side, both as counsel. That is consistent with the Amazon representations above (Amazon as defendant). It is not the whole picture — a 2023 notice of appearance in the Northern District of California (Case No. 5:22-cv-02637) shows him appearing for Apple Inc. as plaintiff. So the record indicates operating-company representations on both sides, with a clear defense tilt in the tracked data. Nothing in the record shows NPE/PAE plaintiff-side practice.

Firm context — a data caveat. The structured case list attributes the Amazon matter to Fish & Richardson, but every public source I could locate (Law360's firm/attorney page, PTAB filings, and the N.D. Cal. notice of appearance) identifies a Matthew R. Stephens as Morrison & Foerster LLP, Austin, Texas, with earlier stints at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (Newport Beach). Fish & Richardson does employ other attorneys named Stephens (e.g., Garland T. Stephens, Nicholas W. Stephens), so the Fish attribution in the tracked data appears likely to be a name-matching artifact rather than a confirmed affiliation. That discrepancy should be resolved before relying on it.

Notable matters, PTAB, bar. The most prominent tracked matter is Smart Speaker LLC v. Amazon.com Services LLC (E.D. Tex., filed July 2025), in which Amazon is the defendant; parallel Amazon IPRs against Smart Speaker (IPR2026-00146, IPR2026-00280) are on file, but Amazon's PTAB powers of attorney name other Morrison & Foerster attorneys (Arjomand, Yap, Yuan), so I could not verify a personal IPR role for him — a third-party profile flags PTAB and Federal Circuit activity, unverified. The second tracked appearance is untitled in the source data and yields no detail. Bar: admitted in California and before the N.D. Cal., per his notice of appearance. Education is not reliably sourced for this attorney; a "Mathew R. Stephens" (different spelling) in San Diego appears in Best Lawyers listings and should not be conflated with him.