Todd Patterson

Specialty / focus. B. Todd Patterson is a Houston-based patent attorney whose litigation work sits within a broader IP practice spanning patent preparation and prosecution, licensing, and portfolio strategy. His technology focus is broad but weighted toward hard-tech and industrial sectors: electronics and semiconductors, telecommunications, complex software, mechanical and chemical engineering, oil and gas, and clean energy, with additional experience in biotech, pharma, and medical devices. On the tracked case data, his one appearance is plaintiff-side and as lead counsel — matching his representation of patent-owner CloudofChange, LLC in CloudofChange, LLC v. Lightspeed POS Inc. (W.D. Tex., Waco, No. 6:21-cv-01102-ADA). That single data point is too thin to infer a systemic NPE-side preference; firm materials indicate he has also represented patent owners and accused infringers in reexamination/reissue proceedings and defends clients in IPRs, so he appears to work both sides of the docket.

Firm context. Patterson is the founding and managing partner of Patterson + Sheridan LLP, which he started in Houston in 1996 as Patterson & Streets with semiconductor-equipment maker Applied Materials as its first client. The firm has grown into a multi-office IP boutique (Texas, California, North Carolina, New Jersey, Alabama) whose long-standing clients include IBM, ExxonMobil, Weatherford, and Applied Materials. Patterson serves as lead partner for several major firm clients and has also testified as an expert witness in patent matters.

Notable matters and PTAB/IPR experience. His most prominent tracked matter is the CloudofChange litigation against Lightspeed/Clover, a patent case on point-of-sale technology that generated related IPRs and a Federal Circuit appeal (CloudofChange, LLC v. Lightspeed Commerce Inc.), in which he was counsel of record. I could not verify the ultimate district court or Federal Circuit outcome from available sources. On the PTAB side, Patterson has active IPR practice: he was lead counsel for patent owner CloudofChange in IPR2022-00779, IPR2022-00997 (including a request for Director Review of the Final Written Decision), and IPR2023-00287 (Clover Network, Inc. v. CloudofChange), and firm materials credit him with helping defend a client's patents in two IPRs where the PTAB denied institution on all 19 asserted grounds. Recognition includes Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" (Houston, patent law, 2021) and repeated Super Lawyers/Best Lawyers listings, though these are peer-ranking accolades rather than case results.

Bar / education. Patterson holds a B.S. in biology from Baylor University and a J.D., cum laude, from South Texas College of Law (1993); he has been licensed in Texas since 1994, is registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 37,906), and is admitted to the Federal Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court, and Texas federal district courts.