Steven Moore

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Steven D. Moore — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Moore's patent practice centers on electronics and software-adjacent technologies: wireless communications and mobile handsets (MANET/Wi-Fi networking equipment, wireless earpieces, handset and set-top-box hardware), computer and smartphone technologies, enterprise software (object-to-relational mapping, health-care software), digital imaging, medical devices, mobile gaming, and mechanical/industrial products (metal cutting tools, composite food wrap, robotic pool cleaners). His tracked cases fit that profile — Wi-Fi/networking gear (TP-Link), indoor location and asset-tracking technology (Zebra), and consumer robotic pool cleaners (Zodiac). He has also handled trade secret misappropriation and related commercial IP claims, and has served as global coordinating counsel across U.S. and foreign proceedings (including a UK Patents Court bench trial).

Side preference. He works both sides, with a career-long emphasis on defense. The tracked data shows two defendant-side representations (Zebra, TP-Link) against one plaintiff-side lead role (Zodiac), and his published experience is dominated by defending operating companies — Motorola Mobility, Oracle, Epic Systems, Kennametal, Interface — against NPE and competitor claims. He also enforces patents for owners, including Zodiac Pool Systems and Georgia-Pacific subsidiaries, and Vinson & Elkins describes his practice as spanning "companies accused of infringement and patent owners harmed by infringement." The Zebra and TP-Link matters involve defending operating companies against assertion entities (WirelessWerx IP, Stingray IP Solutions), which is consistent with that mix.

Firm context and notable matters. Moore was a partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in San Francisco, where he was a member of the firm's Executive Committee and co-leader of the patent litigation team; the two tracked defense matters were handled there. In January 2026 he joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in San Francisco and co-head of its IP litigation practice. Reported results include a defense jury verdict of non-infringement and invalidity for Motorola Mobility in Effingo Wireless v. Motorola Mobility (W.D. Tex.); summary judgment of invalidity by indefiniteness for Motorola affirmed by the Federal Circuit (EON Corp. IP Holdings v. Motorola Mobility; EON v. FLO TV, Fed. Cir. 2015); defeat of a $130 million claim against Oracle in Thought, Inc. v. Oracle (N.D. Cal.), combining IPR invalidation, voluntary dismissals and summary judgment of non-infringement, affirmed on appeal; and a defense verdict for Interface Inc. after a three-week jury trial finding the asserted patents invalid and not infringed. He has publicized verdicts and judgments exceeding $100 million. His tracked plaintiff-side matter, Zodiac Pool Systems v. Wybotics (E.D. Tex. 2:25-cv-582, filed May 23, 2025; amended complaint September 2025), asserts five patents covering robotic pool cleaner configurations, filter assemblies and camera/vision features; it is related to a long-running Zodiac enforcement campaign that produced an ITC consent order against Aiper and sworn representations from Wybotics that it had ceased U.S. sales (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1326). Note that Wybotics has filed IPR petitions (IPR2026-00158/159/160) against the asserted Zodiac patents, so that dispute is now running in parallel at the PTAB.

PTAB/IPR experience and credentials. He appears regularly in AIA proceedings, typically as petitioner or defendant counsel seeking to invalidate asserted claims — including an IPR against U.S. Patent 7,516,484 for Motorola Mobility (IPR2013-00010), a covered business method review (CBM2014-00084), and the IPRs that knocked out three Oracle patents in Thought. He received a B.A. cum laude from Duke University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Duke Law School, and has been licensed in California since 2013; he is consistently recognized in Chambers USA (California patent litigation, 2021–2025), IAM Patent 1000 and Managing Intellectual Property's "IP Stars."

Disambiguation note: this summary covers Steven D. Moore of Vinson & Elkins (formerly Kilpatrick Townsend, San Francisco), not Steven J. Moore of Kelley Drye (a Stamford-based chemistry/biotech/pharma patent lawyer). Some public profiles for the tracked cases are aggregated automatically and list incomplete or conflicting counsel rosters; independently confirm his current appearance in the Zebra and TP-Link dockets before relying on them.