Travis J. Iams

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Travis J. Iams — IP/patent litigation profile (research summary)

Focus areas. Iams' own firm bio describes a mechanical-engineering-oriented practice: he is an intellectual property attorney "focused on mechanical patent prosecution," with work centered on managing large global patent portfolios and IP strategy for manufacturing conglomerates, with a stated emphasis on industrials. Before law school he worked four years as a mechanical engineer designing HVAC systems, and Womble Bond Dickinson's announcement of his hire highlighted his mechanical-engineering background. His stated dispute experience spans patent enforcement suits, defensive patent allegations, and formal invalidity proceedings (IPRs and European oppositions), plus trademark disputes worldwide. The one tracked case (see below) involves mechanical/firearms trigger technology — consistent with that mechanical focus rather than Wi-Fi standards, pharma, or software.

Side preference. The tracked data reflect a single appearance, on the plaintiff side as Counsel — too thin a sample to characterize a defense-side or NPE/PAE practice. Nothing in the public record I reviewed indicates a repeat-player plaintiff or defense posture in district court patent litigation; his biography describes mixed enforcement and defensive work plus portfolio-management duties, which is more consistent with a corporate/IP-portfolio practice than with repeat NPE assertion work.

Firm context. He is currently at Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP in Charlotte, NC, which he rejoined in 2020 after serving as lead intellectual property counsel for the industrial sector of a global manufacturing conglomerate, where he oversaw IP for four business units and a docket of more than 2,400 active patent assets and 2,000 registered trademarks internationally. Before that in-house role he spent seven years as an IP litigation attorney in Alston & Bird LLP's Charlotte office. Note: the tracked data list his firm for the case below as "Gartnes & Roemaet"; I could not verify that firm name in any public source, and his verifiable firms of record are Womble Bond Dickinson and Alston & Bird.

Tracked case. The single tracked matter is Rare Breed Triggers Inc. et al. v. Zach Morrow et al. (plaintiff side, Counsel). Public docket records for this dispute — Rare Breed Triggers, Inc. et al v. DNT LLC et al., No. 4:25-cv-00298 (D. Idaho, filed June 2025), later transferred and consolidated into an MDL in the Eastern District of Texas (4:26-cv-00377 / 26-md-03176) — show plaintiffs Rare Breed Triggers, Inc. and ABC IP, LLC suing DNT LLC (d/b/a Deez Nutz Tactical) and Zach Morrow over forced-reset trigger/"Super Safety" technology (claims on a '247 patent and a '723 patent), with counterclaims and related Federal Circuit appeals. The dockets I retrieved list Jared Wayne Allen and Glenn D. Bellamy as plaintiff-side counsel of record, not Iams, so his appearance as Counsel in this matter rests on the tracked data and is not independently confirmed in the records reviewed. I found no verdict, judgment, or settlement naming him personally.

PTAB/IPR. No IPR, PGR, or Federal Circuit appeal with Iams named as counsel surfaced in my search. His bio states he has overseen formal patent invalidity proceedings such as inter partes review and EP oppositions, framed as portfolio/in-house oversight rather than first-chair PTAB advocacy.

Bar/education. J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, 2009 (per The Best Lawyers in America listing, which also lists him in Litigation–Patent, Patent Law, and Trademark Law since 2024). Specific state bar admissions were not confirmed in the sources reviewed.