Thomas B. Mauze

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Note on identity before the summary: The tracker lists this appearance as "Thomas B. Mauze," but no public record of a patent litigator by that name at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg (RJLF) could be verified. The patent litigator at RJLF with this surname is Taylor N. Mauze (Austin, TX; tmauze@reichmanjorgensen.com) — referred to as "Ms. Mauze" in court filings and identified as the RJLF attorney on the Malikie and Kove matters. Because the single tracked appearance is an RJLF plaintiff-side patent case, the summary below is written for Taylor N. Mauze and should be confirmed against the source data before use. If the intended individual is genuinely a "Thomas B. Mauze," the profile below does not apply.

Specialty / focus. Her practice is patent infringement litigation with an electrical-engineering and software/cloud bias, consistent with her B.Eng. in electrical engineering. Representative subject matter includes distributed cloud storage (Kove IO v. Amazon Web Services, N.D. Ill.), foundational browser/web technology (Droplets v. Yahoo, U.S. Patent No. 6,687,745), video technology portfolio enforcement (VideoLabs), USB-charging backpack technology (Wenger S.A., W.D. Tex.), and the BlackBerry-derived wireless portfolio asserted by Malikie Innovations/Key Patent Innovations against Nintendo (W.D. Wash.). She has also worked trade secret matters (Arconic, N.D. Ga.).

Side preference. The tracked data show one plaintiff-side appearance, zero defendant-side, as Lead Counsel — an NPE/patent-owner enforcement posture, and that is consistent with the verifiable record (Kove, Droplets, VideoLabs, Malikie, Cirba are all plaintiff representations). The mix is not exclusively plaintiff-side: she also defended Wenger S.A. against infringement allegations and represented Arconic in a trade secret defense. On balance, plaintiff/patent-owner enforcement is the dominant pattern, but the sample is small.

Firm context. Current firm is RJLF, where she is based in the Austin, TX office of the national trial boutique. Before RJLF she clerked for Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (the busiest patent docket in the country) and was an IP disputes associate at a global law firm; Law360 lists her at Norton Rose in connection with two earlier patent cases (Clean Energy Management Solutions v. AT&T, E.D. Tex. 2016; Ameranth v. Pizza Hut, S.D. Cal. 2011). She has also tried jury cases as a prosecutor in Austin.

Notable outcomes. Verified results from firm and press sources: Droplets, Inc. v. Yahoo Inc. — $15 million jury verdict (N.D. Cal., Judge Jon Tigar, March 2022), with post-trial motions raising the total award to $27 million; Cirba v. VMware (D. Del.) — $84 million willful infringement verdict after a five-day trial, on which she was part of the trial team; Arconic trade secret trial (N.D. Ga.). Kove IO v. AWS is a multi-hundred-million-dollar claim in which she appeared pro hac vice for the plaintiff.

PTAB / IPR experience. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances for this attorney could be verified in the sources reviewed. RJLF marketing materials describe firm-level PTAB/ITC expertise, but that is not attributable to this individual on the record available.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and registered with the U.S.P.T.O.; J.D., University of Texas School of Law; B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (per firm bio; Best Lawyers lists J.D. 2016).

Sources: RJLF firm bio, Law360 attorney profile pages, CourtListener/PACER filings (Kove IO v. AWS; Malikie Innovations v. Nintendo), Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch," and an RJLF press release on the Droplets verdict. The name discrepancy and the absence of verified PTAB experience are the two items most worth confirming.