Scott Cole

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Scott L. Cole — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Cole is an Austin-based IP and commercial trial lawyer whose patent work sits mainly in the technology sector rather than life sciences: telecommunications and wireless standards (LTE/VoLTE), microprocessors and DRAM, enterprise/database software, and video streaming, per his current firm biography. He also has handled matters touching standards-essential patents, automotive systems, oil and gas, and health care. Public records do not show a pharmaceutical or Hatch-Waxman docket, so characterize him as a tech/software-and-hardware patent trial lawyer, not a pharma litigator.

Side preference. Overwhelmingly plaintiff-side. The tracked data show 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side, and Benchmark Litigation describes his practice as "mixed" but "emphasiz[ing] plaintiff non-practicing-entity work, largely acting on behalf of entities holding varied tech patent portfolios." Clients have included patent holders and licensing entities such as Versata Software, WiLAN, and Rambus. His defense-side experience is limited in the tracked record, though the current firm has been taking on more defense-side patent work.

Firm context. The tracked appearance is attributed to McKool Smith, where Cole was a principal for roughly 20 years and where he built his patent trial practice; that appearance is a plaintiff-side matter in which he is listed as lead counsel. He left McKool Smith in January 2021 for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he helped launch the Austin office, departed in July 2024 for a solo practice, and in February 2025 joined Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP as managing partner of its Austin office. He began his career at Vinson & Elkins and spent roughly a year in private equity.

Notable outcomes and PTAB experience. His signature result is Versata Software v. SAP (E.D. Tex.), where he was lead trial counsel: a $138.6 million verdict in 2009, a $345 million verdict on retrial in May 2011, and a roughly $391 million judgment that the Federal Circuit affirmed in 2013 (cert. denied January 2014); the case later settled after PTAB proceedings invalidated the asserted claims. He was also part of McKool Smith's trial team that obtained an $85.23 million damages verdict for WiLAN against Apple in the Apple v. Wi-LAN retrial in the S.D. Cal. in January 2020, and he represented Rambus in its DRAM patent/antitrust trial against Hynix and others. His firm biography credits him with 30-plus trials to verdict and four nine-figure verdicts, and he has appeared on both sides of PTAB-related matters (for example, he is listed on patent-owner-side correspondence in Advanced Micro Devices v. Concurrent Ventures, IPR2025-00478), but the public record does not establish him as a frequent PTAB oral advocate. Bar/education: admitted in Texas, the Fifth Circuit, and the Federal Circuit; J.D. with honors, University of Texas School of Law (1994); B.A., University of Texas at Austin (1990).

Caveats: the single tracked case is untitled in the source data, so I have not identified it by name; the docket-level description above is drawn from firm bios, Benchmark Litigation, Law360/Texas Lawyer reporting, and press releases, which reflect the firm's own characterizations of verdict totals.