Valerie M. Verret

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Valerie M. Verret — The Dacus Firm (Tyler, Texas)

Specialty / focus. The tracked record is thin: a single patent case, Topwire LLC v. Apple, Inc., No. 7:25-cv-00551 (W.D. Tex., filed Dec. 1, 2025), involving semiconductor packaging technology — U.S. Patent No. 9,859,202 ("Spacer Connector"), asserted against Apple's stacked "double-layered" iPhone logic boards. That is the only technology area attributable to her practice from the case list; there is no basis in the available data to describe her as a Wi-Fi, pharma, or life-sciences practitioner. The Dacus Firm itself markets an East Texas patent-litigation practice (hundreds of patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas, in both local and lead counsel roles).

Side preference. The counts show 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance, in a local-counsel role for Apple. One data point cannot establish a pattern, so the only defensible statement is that her tracked work is on the defense side representing an operating company accused of infringement — not that she "primarily" defends. No NPE/PAE-side prosecution work is reflected in the tracked data.

Firm context. She is listed with The Dacus Firm, P.C. (821 ESE Loop 323, Tyler, TX), a long-standing East Texas trial boutique, and no prior firms or in-house positions are verified in the sources reviewed. Note a name-collision caution: Martindale and trademark-filing aggregators surface a "Valerie Verret" associated with Exxon Mobil in a trademark/portfolio capacity; I could not confirm whether that is the same individual, so I would not attribute that practice to her without further verification.

Notable case and PTAB. Topwire is the prominent matter: Topwire (formed 2025, managed by Dallas patent attorney Robert Katz) acquired the '202 patent from inventor Dyi-Chung Hu and filed parallel suits against Apple (W.D. Tex.) and Samsung (E.D. Tex., 2:25-cv-01183), alleging willful infringement of iPhones from the X-series forward. The litigation has drawn PTAB challenges on the same patent — Apple's IPR2026-00303 (filed Mar. 16, 2026) and Samsung's IPR2026-00324 (filed Mar. 31, 2026) — both pending, with patent-owner discretionary-denial briefing in the Apple IPR. The W.D. Tex. case was reassigned during 2026 (Albright → Counts → Schydlower), and Apple filed a partial motion to dismiss the amended complaint. No outcome, verdict, or settlement is verified, and I found no evidence of Verret personally appearing in the IPR/PGR proceedings; her tracked role is local counsel on the district-court defense.

Bar / education. Not reliably sourced in the materials reviewed — omitted. Any bar admissions, education, or PTAB registration should be confirmed against the Texas bar and USPTO practitioner records before being stated.