Vishal H. Patel

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Vishal H. Patel — patent litigation practice summary

Specialty / focus. Patel is a Dallas-based member of Cole Schotz P.C.'s Intellectual Property Department and is also identified by the firm as a member of its Life Sciences industry group. His tracked and web-verified matters cluster in wireless communications (Hannibal IP's 5G/wireless-standard assertions against Samsung, on patents tracing to Foxconn affiliate FG Innovation; STMicroelectronics' IPR work), consumer IoT and smart-home hardware (video doorbells, IP cameras, control panels for Vivint/SB IP Holdings), and mechanical/consumer-product patents (PILOT Corporation's thermochromic erasable-pen technology). Contour IP Holding and Avant Location Technologies matters add location-/camera-based software. The life-sciences group membership suggests some pharma/medtech exposure, but no life-science patent case appears in his tracked docket, so that is unverified.

Side preference. His tracked record is genuinely two-sided — one plaintiff-side and one defendant-side appearance — and that pattern holds in searchable dockets: he has represented patent owners and NPEs asserting claims (Hannibal IP as plaintiff; Contour IP Holding in C.D. Cal.) and accused operating companies (ADT in the Avant Location Technologies suit; 360Booth in M.D. Fla.; STMicroelectronics as IPR petitioner). With only two tracked appearances, the balance should be treated as provisional rather than a settled practice signature.

Firm context and notable matters. Patel joined Cole Schotz in January 2021 from Thompson & Knight, where he had been a partner; the move was part of the firm's build-out of its Dallas IP bench (Reuters, Oct. 4, 2021). As lead counsel he represents Hannibal IP in Hannibal IP, LLC v. Samsung Electronics (E.D. Tex., 4:25-cv-00200), a dispute that also generated Samsung IPRs terminated by settlement in April 2026 (IPR2025-01187/01188), with Cole Schotz on the patent-owner side. He appeared for SB IP Holdings in the Vivint Inc. v. SB IP Holdings dispute; the broader patent family produced a $45.4M willful-infringement jury verdict for SB IP in October 2023 (enhancement denied August 2024), parallel Vivint IPRs holding challenged claims unpatentable, and Federal Circuit appeals voluntarily dismissed in July 2025. He was also on the Cole Schotz trial team that won a July 2025 post-bench-trial ruling for 360Booth (three of four asserted patents held unenforceable for inequitable conduct) and the team that secured a 2026 Amazon APEX takedown for PILOT Corporation.

PTAB/IPR and credentials. He does appear in PTAB proceedings — as pro hac vice counsel for petitioner STMicroelectronics in IPR2021-01593 (2021) and on Cole Schotz's team representing Hannibal IP in the 2025–2026 IPRs — though his PTAB work appears litigation-driven; sources do not indicate he is a registered USPTO patent practitioner. Bar/education: licensed in Texas since 2008; J.D., University of Houston Law Center (2008). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America (Litigation – IP; Litigation – Patent) since 2023, Texas Super Lawyers 2024–2025, and IAM Strategy 300 (2026). Note: several attorneys share this name; this summary is disambiguated to the Dallas/Cole Schotz attorney.