Paul R. Genender

I'll research Paul R. Genender before drafting.

Let me check for any patent-specific matters and IPR/PTAB work.

Practice profile. Paul R. Genender is a Dallas/Houston complex commercial litigator and trial lawyer, not a dedicated patent litigator. His tracked patent-litigation footprint is minimal — one appearance, on the defense side — and his own firm bio and Chambers/Legal 500 profiles describe a general business-disputes practice: antitrust, breach of contract, fiduciary duty, securities fraud, unfair competition, non-competes, and misappropriation/theft of trade secrets. The IP-adjacent work that recurs is trade-secret and IP-misappropriation litigation rather than patent prosecution or patent-validity/infringement trial work. Industry focus runs to financial services, energy, chemicals, healthcare, retail, real estate, and telecommunications; there is no Wi-Fi/standards, pharma, or electrical-engineering patent portfolio in the record.

Side preference. His practice is deliberately two-sided: firm and directory bios state he represents "plaintiffs, defendants, debtors, and creditors." The single tracked matter is defendant-side, consistent with a defense-leaning but not plaintiff-restricted commercial docket. There is no indication of NPE/PAE plaintiff-side patent prosecution work.

Firm context. Genender has been at Paul Hastings since September 2023, where he is co-chair of the firm's Complex Litigation and Arbitration practice, chair of the Texas Commercial Litigation practice, and co-chair of the Dallas and Houston offices (he opened the Dallas office in early 2024). He joined from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he led the Texas litigation practice for roughly seven years; earlier career stops include K&L Gates (via the Hughes & Luce merger) and Strasburger & Price in Dallas. His name appears on firm profiles alongside a co-chair of Complex Litigation, matching the role designation in the tracked data.

Notable matters and PTAB. The referenced IP-heavy result is a complete defense jury verdict for Compex Technologies after a two-week trial in Dallas federal court, where the plaintiff sought more than $40 million on contract and IP-misappropriation claims. Other frequently cited results are commercial rather than patent: lead trial counsel for Visa in competitor antitrust litigation, lead counsel for Alaska Airlines in the Dallas Love Field gate dispute with Southwest, Delta, and the City of Dallas, and defense of Apple in an E.D. Tex. consumer class action. His most prominent docket volume is bankruptcy/restructuring litigation (Sears Holdings, WeWork creditors' committee, Talen Energy, J. Crew, Speedcast). I found no evidence of a regular IPR/PGR practice — PTAB filings under a similar name belong to a different attorney, David M. Genender of McDermott, and should not be conflated.

Bar and education. Admitted in Texas since 1994; J.D., Duke University School of Law (1994); A.B., Duke University (1991, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). Note that public sources describe no specific patent case by name for him, so any patent-specific assessment rests on the single tracked defense-side appearance rather than a documented patent-trial record.