Seth Hasenour

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Seth Hasenour — patent litigation practice summary

Mr. Hasenour's practice centers on patent and trade secret litigation for technology clients, with a technical focus on electrical engineering and communications. Reported matters span wireless communications and standards (VoLTE, cellular and wireless subsystem technology), wireless charging, contactless/digital payments, computer hardware and software, semiconductors and memory, digital signal processing, digital rights management, camera/image processing, audio compression, and LED lighting. His undergraduate engineering background (B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas, 2002) and pre-law work as an engineering scientist associate at UT's Applied Research Laboratories align with that docket. He is described in firm materials as litigating through all stages of large, complex patent cases.

Side preference — He is predominantly a plaintiff-side patent litigator, consistent with the tracked data (1 plaintiff-side appearance, 0 defendant-side). His representative matters are overwhelmingly patent-owner engagements: Wi-LAN, Optis Wireless Technology, Scramoge Technology, Aire Technology, Speir Technologies, Clear Imaging Research, SEVEN Networks, Ultravision Technologies, ContentGuard, Hybrid Audio, and V-Dot Technologies — a mix of licensing entities and operating companies. He has also represented operating companies asserting patents offensively, including BMC Software (against ServiceNow, Cherwell, and FireScope) and Rambus. The single tracked appearance is an unidentified plaintiff-side matter at McKool Smith (his firm of record at the time), so it cannot be matched to a named case from the available data.

Firm context — He is currently a founding partner at BC Law Group, P.C., a patent litigation boutique with offices in New York and Austin; before that he was a principal at McKool Smith, and he has also practiced at Russ August & Kabat. The tracked case predates that move (firm of record: McKool Smith). Firm materials state that his clients have recovered more than $1 billion in judgments and settlements over his career, though that figure is a firm self-description rather than a court-verified aggregate.

Notable matters and PTAB work — The most prominent publicly reported results are the Wi-LAN v. Apple VoLTE cases in the Southern District of California: a $145.1 million jury verdict in August 2018, followed after a damages retrial by an $85.23 million verdict in January 2020 (Case No. 3:14-cv-02235-DMS-BLM); he was a member of the McKool Smith trial team on both. Firm materials also credit the Optis Wireless v. Apple litigation in the Eastern District of Texas with $506 million and $300 million verdicts; those figures come from the firm's own case description and I could not independently verify the current status of those awards. On the PTAB side, he appears regularly as patent-owner counsel opposing institution rather than as a petitioner — docket records show him in IPR proceedings including Volkswagen v. Scramoge (IPR2022-01309), Unified Patents v. Speir (IPR2022-00987), LG Electronics v. Wi-LAN (IPR2018-00674), and Apple v. Sonrai Memory (IPR2023-00975), and public profiles also flag Federal Circuit activity (e.g., Wi-LAN Inc. v. Apple Inc., No. 14-1437).

Bar / education — Admitted in Texas (2007); also admitted before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. J.D., Harvard Law School (2007); B.S. with high honors, Electrical Engineering, University of Texas (2002).