Stephen Shackelford

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Stephen Shackelford, Jr. — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Shackelford is a generalist complex-litigation and trial partner at Susman Godfrey whose intellectual-property work sits within a broader commercial practice (contract, fraud/securities, RICO, False Claims Act, defamation, insurance, class actions). His only tracked patent matters are the related SpaceTime3D–LG Electronics cases, which concern software/UI patents — specifically U.S. Patent Nos. 8,881,048, 9,304,654 and 9,696,868, covering three-dimensional graphical user interfaces (stacked-tab/3D webpage viewing and timeline displays) asserted against smartphone and consumer-electronics makers. That is a narrow patent footprint: no Wi-Fi/standards-essential, pharmaceutical, or mechanical patent work is documented for him. Note also that Stanford's NPE litigation database classifies SpaceTime3D, Inc. as a practicing entity rather than a classic PAE, which shapes the character of the assertion campaign.

Side preference. The tracked data is uniformly plaintiff-side: 2 plaintiff appearances, 0 defendant appearances, with one lead-counsel designation. That is consistent with his broader reputation as a plaintiffs' trial lawyer — Law360 named him a "Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar" and he was co-lead for Dominion Voting Systems — though his firm bio stresses that he litigates "on both sides of the 'v'" and he spent three years (2012–2015) inside GE's legal department defending the company. On the patent side specifically, the record shows only patent-owner/plaintiff representation.

Firm context. He has spent essentially his entire career at Susman Godfrey: joined 2007, elected to the partnership in 2010/2011, member of the firm's Executive Committee, based in New York. He left the partnership in early 2012 to serve as Special Counsel to GE General Counsel Brackett Denniston, moved to GE Capital as Executive Counsel for Litigation in 2014, and returned to Susman Godfrey's New York office in May 2015. No in-house role outside GE is documented. (He should not be confused with the Houston/Austin firm Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, which is unrelated.)

Notable matters and outcomes. In the patent matters, SpaceTime3D's EDTX campaign against LG (No. 2:22-cv-00049) was resolved by settlement — LG, LG U.S.A. and Google filed IPRs on the three patents in February 2023 (IPR2023-00577), and in May 2023 the parties jointly asked the Board to treat a settlement and license agreement as confidential business information. Parallel SpaceTime3D campaigns against Samsung (2:19-cv-00372) and Apple (6:22-cv-00149 / 1:23-cv-00553) also produced settlements and PTAB activity, and a Federal Circuit appeal from the Board's decision on the '048 patent was briefed for SpaceTime3D. His headline results are outside patents: the $787.5 million Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News settlement (co-lead, April 2023) plus Dominion's continuing suits against Giuliani, Powell, Lindell/MyPillow, Byrne, OAN and Newsmax; a $100M+ jury verdict for GE against the Nebraska Investment Finance Authority, affirmed on appeal (767 F. App'x 110 (2d Cir. 2019)); a $203 million judgment for Louis Bacon against Peter Nygard; and a $19 million FCA settlement with LabCorp.

PTAB/IPR experience. He appears regularly adjacent to PTAB proceedings rather than as PTAB counsel of record. The SpaceTime3D patents generated at least three IPR petitions (including an earlier Samsung petition dismissed in 2020), but the USPTO filings I could locate name other counsel — Fitzsimmons IP Law, Jeffer Mangels, DLA Piper and Finnegan — not Shackelford. I found no verified record of him personally arguing an IPR/PGR.

Bar and education. A.B., Harvard (History and Literature); J.D., Harvard Law School, 2005, first in his class and magna cum laude; law clerk to Chief Judge Michael Boudin (1st Cir.) and Justice Stephen Breyer (U.S. Supreme Court). Licensed in New York, Texas and Indiana. Benchmark "Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America" (2024, 2025) and Chambers USA–ranked for Litigation: General Commercial (New York).

Sourcing caveat: his specific role in the SpaceTime3D–LG docket rests on the tracked case data supplied; I could not independently locate a docket entry naming him in that case, so that attribution should be confirmed against the pleadings before it is relied on.