Michael Andrew Bittner

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Let me verify his firm history, the reported move to King & Spalding, and the two tracked cases.

Michael A. Bittner — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Bittner is an intellectual property trial lawyer whose practice centers on patent litigation across a broad technology mix rather than a single vertical. Firm profiles list telecommunications, networking, financial services, and data management as core areas, with prior representations spanning software and electronic commerce, medical devices, robotics, and petrochemical engineering. He has developed particular experience in FRAND/RAND disputes over standard-essential patent portfolios (e.g., representing Ericsson in a 2G/3G/4G LTE licensing suit against LG in the Eastern District of Texas). He also handles trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and copyright matters, largely in Texas. Notably, the two tracked appearances do not fit a single technology profile: one is a defendant-side NPE case over HP-origin cluster-computing, file-system, and storage patents, and the other is a plaintiff-side software/data matter.

Side preference. Bittner works both sides. The tracked data show one plaintiff-side and one defendant-side appearance, and his firm bios consistently describe him as taking cases "for both plaintiffs and defendants" through district court, the Federal Circuit, and the PTAB. The defendant-side docket skews toward operating companies facing NPE/PAE assertions, while plaintiff-side work has included patentees and technology vendors seeking declaratory judgments of non-infringement and invalidity.

Firm context. He was a Dallas partner at Winston & Strawn, which he joined in 2017 as part of the group that founded the firm's Dallas office, arriving from Fish & Richardson (where he had been a principal). In February 2026, Bittner was part of a nine-partner litigation team, led by Tom Melsheimer, that left Winston & Strawn for King & Spalding to build out that firm's Dallas complex-commercial and IP litigation practice; both tracked appearances were filed while he was at Winston & Strawn. He is based in Dallas.

Notable cases / outcomes. The most prominent verified result is SAP America, Inc. v. InvestPic, LLC (N.D. Tex.), in which SAP obtained judgment on the pleadings invalidating InvestPic's financial-data patent under § 101; the Federal Circuit affirmed (890 F.3d 1016 (Fed. Cir. 2018)), and the district court's award of roughly $679,000 in attorneys' fees was affirmed in 2019. He also obtained a defense jury verdict for defendants in Tech Pharmacy Services, Inc. v. AlixaRx, Inc. (E.D. Tex.) on patent infringement, trade secret, and fraud claims after a month-long trial; an Alice-based invalidity judgment plus an exceptional-case fee award in eDekka LLC v. 3balls.com; Alice invalidity wins in Clear with Computers v. Altec Industries; and he served as lead counsel in the GeoTag campaign in the Eastern District of Texas, described as the largest joint defense effort in that district's history (400+ defendants). On the tracked docket, he is listed as lead counsel for FedEx in Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al. v. FedEx Corp. et al. (E.D. Tex.), an NPE suit asserting HP-developed patents; the parallel PTAB proceedings saw institution of one FedEx IPR (IPR2026-00039) and discretionary denial of another (IPR2026-00060). The other tracked matter, SAP America, Inc. v. Peter Henrik Pedersen, is plaintiff-side, but I found no reliable public detail on its subject matter or outcome.

PTAB / IPR experience. He appears regularly in AIA proceedings. Public records show him litigating before the Board (including a pro hac vice declaration in IPR2016-01739) and listed as counsel in multiple IPRs, including as backup counsel for SAP America in IPR2025-00418 and on the FedEx/Valtrus petitions. Firm and King & Spalding descriptions both emphasize activity before district courts, the Federal Circuit, and the PTAB.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas (2008); also admitted before the Federal Circuit, E.D. Tex., and N.D. Tex. J.D., University of Texas at Austin School of Law (2008, with honors); B.A., University of Texas at Austin (2003, with high honors); law clerk to Judge David J. Folsom, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.