Max Ciccarelli

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Max Ciccarelli (Massimo "Max" Ciccarelli) — Ciccarelli Law Firm, Dallas/Waco, Texas

Focus areas. Ciccarelli's patent work centers on electronics and computer-implemented technology. Represented matters include video/image coding and compression, conditional-access and content-protection (HDCP) standards, semiconductor devices (SiC MOSFETs), messaging, and airline/travel reservation and online seat-map systems. In tracked data his practice is categorized under patent and IP litigation; the W.D. Tex. matters in which he appears as local counsel involve claim-construction disputes over codec and DRM patents (e.g., VideoLabs v. HP, Waco Division), which is consistent with a Waco-focused local-counsel practice in addition to his own client representations.

Side preference. He works both sides, but the tracked record is one defendant-side representation (counsel in Intellectual Ventures v. Capital One) and one plaintiff-side appearance as local counsel. That ratio matches his broader history, which is weighted toward defending operating companies — Southwest Airlines/AirTran, STMicroelectronics, and Capital One — while his plaintiff-side work has come largely through local-counsel engagements for patent owners such as VideoLabs, Inc. in the Waco Division.

Firm context. He is the principal of Ciccarelli Law Firm LLC (offices in Dallas and Waco), his current firm. Before that he spent roughly two decades at Thompson & Knight LLP in Dallas, where he was a Chambers USA–ranked Intellectual Property attorney; he appears in filings and Law360's directory as a Holland & Knight attorney following the two firms' 2021 combination. He is not in-house counsel.

Notable matters and outcomes. Web-verified results include CEATS Inc. v. Continental Airlines (E.D. Tex., 2012), where he was lead trial counsel for AirTran and the jury returned a defense verdict that the asserted claims were invalid, defeating a demand of roughly $100 million; and Parallel Networks LLC v. Abercrombie & Fitch (E.D. Tex., 2011), an early summary-judgment win of non-infringement for nearly 100 defendants including Southwest Airlines. He also appeared for STMicroelectronics in Delaware patent litigation (Viewpoint IP LLC v. STMicroelectronics, D. Del. 2021) and in W.D. Tex. matters including Purdue University's patent suit against STMicroelectronics. In the tracked Intellectual Ventures v. Capital One, he represented Capital One alongside Troutman Pepper (Law360, Oct. 2023); no publicly reported final outcome was located. In VideoLabs v. HP, he served as local counsel for the plaintiff through the August 2024 Markman hearing; the parties reported a settlement in principle on March 27, 2025.

PTAB/IPR. I found no reliably sourced evidence that Ciccarelli regularly appears in IPR/PGR proceedings; his public footprint is district-court litigation, so this should not be assumed without further verification.

Bar and education. Admitted in Texas in 1993; J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law (1993); B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1990).

Caveat: the authoritative case list contains only two tracked appearances, so the counts above reflect that dataset; the additional matters are drawn from court filings and press reports and may not capture other representations not in the tracked set.