Tyler Lawrence Farmer

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Tyler Lawrence Farmer — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Mr. Farmer is a Seattle-based commercial trial lawyer whose IP work centers on technology disputes rather than a patent-prosecution practice. His tracked patent docket consists entirely of the Flexiworld Technologies v. Amazon.com litigation in the Western District of Washington (2:21-cv-01055-DGE), a wireless/driverless-printing patent campaign involving Wi-Fi and network-printing functionality (the asserted Flexiworld patents cover printing digital content from a mobile "information apparatus" to a printer without device-specific drivers). Public practice descriptions (Legal 500, Bloomberg Law, Global Legal Post) frame his IP work more broadly as "tech and IP litigation," patent-licensing disputes (including for Asian clients), trade secret and employment disputes, and general "bet-the-company" commercial litigation; he has no identified pharma or mechanical patent practice.

Side preference. On the tracked docket he appears exclusively on the plaintiff/patent-owner side (5 plaintiff appearances, 0 defendant), acting as local counsel for Flexiworld Technologies against Amazon. That said, his documented practice overall is not NPE-focused: firm and directory profiles describe him as a defense-side trial lawyer for technology companies, real estate investors, public entities (e.g., City of Seattle, in the Hunters Capital protest class action), and corporate clients, with a substantial class-action-defense and internal-investigations practice. The plaintiff-side patent docket appears to reflect a local-counsel role for a client asserting patents, not a PAE prosecution practice as a business model.

Firm context. Mr. Farmer was an associate at Jones Day (Washington, D.C. and Menlo Park) from 2000–2007, then moved to Seattle and practiced at Harrigan Leyh Farmer & Thomsen LLP (partner from 2010), which combined with Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in April 2024; he served as co-managing partner of BCLP's Seattle office. In 2025 he co-founded Martinez & Farmer LLP, where he appears as counsel in the most recent Flexiworld matter.

Notable matters / outcomes. The most prominent tracked matters are the consolidated Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. suits (W.D. Wash.), where he is listed as local counsel; the court issued a claim-construction order in March 2024 (Dkt. 161) rejecting Amazon's indefiniteness challenge to the "data generation software component" term and adopting Flexiworld's position on that limitation. I could not verify a verdict, settlement amount, or Federal Circuit decision in that case; the related 2025 miscellaneous proceeding (2:25-mc-00018, subpoena dispute involving the Mopria Alliance) was dismissed by stipulation in April 2025. Notably, in the parallel Flexiworld campaign the PTAB proceedings (e.g., Roku's PGR2021-00111/-00112 and Lexmark's IPRs) were handled by Flexiworld's national patent counsel (Nelson Bumgardner Conroy; Perkins Coie for petitioners), not by Mr. Farmer.

PTAB/IPR experience. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances by Mr. Farmer were located in searches. His role in the patent matters above appears to be district-court local counsel and litigation support, not post-grant practice.

Bar / education. J.D., Notre Dame Law School (2000); B.A., University of Notre Dame (1995). Admitted in California (2000), D.C. (2001), and Washington (2008); admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. (Sourced from Best Lawyers/Chambers profiles; note the various profiles list his HLFT tenure as beginning 2007 or 2008.)

Sourcing caveat: practice-area characterizations above come from directory and firm profiles, which are promotional in nature; the case-outcome detail is drawn from court dockets and filed documents, and no patent-specific trial win or appellate decision involving Mr. Farmer was independently verified.