Robert William Weber

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Robert William Weber — Partner, Smith Weber, L.L.P. (Texarkana, TX)

Focus areas. Weber's patent work clusters in communications and consumer-electronics technology. His two tracked matters are the consolidated Sol IP, LLC v. Sprint Communications Co. L.P. cases in the Eastern District of Texas, a large multi-defendant assertion (27 patents and roughly 500 claims against AT&T, Sprint and Verizon) covering LTE/4G cellular standards (3GPP) and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) technology. His firm biography describes a practice shift over the past decade-plus toward complex commercial litigation in patent, class action and pharmaceutical matters in the Eastern District of Texas and Western District of Arkansas, alongside a long-standing products-liability, transportation and civil-rights defense practice. Court filings also show him appearing for defendants in other telecom/consumer-electronics patent suits, including Cellular Communications Equipment LLC v. LG Electronics (E.D. Tex. 2013) and Sharing Sound, LLC v. Apple, Inc. (E.D. Tex. 2010, for Sony entities).

Side preference. The authoritative tracked record is entirely defense-side (0 plaintiff, 2 defendant), consistent with his role as Texarkana counsel for operating companies such as Sprint, Sony and LG. That said, he is not exclusively a defense lawyer: publicly filed papers in E.D. Tex. matters and PTAB exhibits show him acting for Acorn Technologies/Acorn Semi LLC — a semiconductor licensing entity — in Acorn Semi LLC v. Samsung Electronics and related IPR filings, and his firm markets itself as litigating for both plaintiffs and defendants. The practical read is a defense-leaning local-counsel practice with occasional plaintiff-side standards-essential/patent-licensing work.

Firm and notable matters. He has practiced in Texarkana since 1979–80 and is a name partner at Smith Weber, L.L.P., a three-lawyer litigation boutique founded in 2006 for Texas and Arkansas state and federal practice; he previously appears in directory listings under a solo "Law Offices of Robert William Weber" address. In the tracked Sol IP litigation he served as lead counsel in one case and local counsel in the consolidated companion, working alongside national counsel (e.g., Rouse Hendricks German May for Sprint); the court's January 2020 ruling denied defendants' motion to amend invalidity contentions to add the IEEE 802.11n standard, holding good cause was not shown. Outcome data for Sol IP (settlement or dismissal) is not verifiable from the sources reviewed. His more recent patent appearances are dated; no noteworthy verdicts or Federal Circuit arguments for him were found.

PTAB/IPR, bar and education. PTAB records show him listed as counsel in a small number of proceedings, generally alongside national IPR counsel and in several instances later terminated — this appears to be occasional, not a regular IPR/PGR practice. He was admitted in Pennsylvania (1979), Texas (1980) and Arkansas (1981), and is admitted before the Fifth Circuit and the district courts of the Eastern/Northern Districts of Texas and Eastern/Western Districts of Arkansas. He holds a J.D. from South Texas College of Law (1979, law review) and a B.A. from Cornell University (1975), and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of ABOTA.

Note on disambiguation: prior-art references to "Weber" in PTAB decisions and the Provisur Technologies v. Weber, Inc. infringement/inequitable-conduct litigation concern Weber Inc., the grill manufacturer, and are unrelated to this attorney.