Todd A. Martin

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Todd A. Martin — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Martin's practice is patent litigation, with a technical foundation in electrical engineering and registered-patent-attorney prosecution experience (USPTO Reg. No. 78,642). His firm bio lists focus areas including circuit design, semiconductors, optical systems, LiDAR, AI, and wireless communication systems. The tracked docket is consistent with that profile: the Smart Mobile matters involve mobile wireless devices with multiple transmitters/receivers and dynamic software reconfiguration, while IPA Technologies v. Microsoft concerned voice-recognition/personal-digital-assistant software. He has also drafted and prosecuted patent applications, which is relevant to his PTAB work.

Side preference. All four tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, and both identified clients are assertion-side entities: IPA Technologies (a Wi-LAN/Quarterhill subsidiary) and Smart Mobile Technologies (a patent assertion entity). Nothing in the tracked record shows him defending operating companies, so this should be read as a plaintiff/NPE-side practice rather than a balanced one — though four appearances is a small sample. One of the four tracked appearances is listed without a case name and could not be identified.

Firm context and notable cases. Martin is at Skiermont Derby LLP in Dallas (1601 Elm Street), a firm whose docket is heavily plaintiff-side patent assertion work. The firm bio states he previously worked as an associate at a patent prosecution boutique and at a national law firm; neither is named in searchable sources, so prior-employer detail should not be asserted. His most prominent tracked matter is IPA Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. (D. Del., No. 1:18-cv-00001), where he is named on the Skiermont Derby trial team with Bayard P.A. A Delaware jury returned a $242 million verdict for IPA on U.S. Patent No. 7,069,560 against Microsoft's Cortana on May 10, 2024 (reported as the third-largest patent verdict in Delaware history); Microsoft stated it would appeal, and the parties settled and the case was dismissed in June 2024. He is also on the Smart Mobile Technologies LLC v. Apple Inc. team (filed W.D. Tex. 2021, later transferred to N.D. Cal.).

PTAB / IPR experience. Martin appears in PTAB proceedings as back-up counsel for the patent owner, including Apple and Samsung IPRs against Smart Mobile Technologies (e.g., IPR2022-00979, -00980, -00981, -01005, -01223, -01249). Outcomes in that family were mixed: the Board largely rejected Apple's obviousness challenges on claim-construction grounds, and in August 2026 the Federal Circuit affirmed in part (agreeing with the Board's narrower construction of "multiplexed signals") while vacating and remanding on Smart Mobile's APA/motivation-to-combine cross-appeal. In a related appeal decided January 2026, the Federal Circuit reversed the Board on issue preclusion and held a Smart Mobile claim unpatentable — a loss for the patent-owner side. His specific role in the appellate phase is not confirmed.

Bar / education. Registered patent attorney (USPTO) and Texas bar (per US News lawyer profile). J.D., Washington University in St. Louis (2008); B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas (magna cum laude); B.A. Economics and M.A. Banking and Finance, University of Alabama.