Wayne M. Helge

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Wayne M. Helge — Bunsow De Mory LLP (Partner, Registered Patent Attorney)

Focus areas. Helge's practice is centered on contested patent work — district court litigation, post-grant proceedings at the USPTO, and Federal Circuit appeals — supported by a substantial patent prosecution, reexamination, and licensing practice. His technical mix is heavily electrical and computer-related: telecommunications devices and standards (the tracked Pegasus matter involves 5G NR/LTE mobile communications patents, with 3GPP technical specifications at the center of the obviousness fights), semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing, video encoding, flat-panel displays and driving circuitry, fiber-optic communications and modulation, and computer memory. Firm bios also list medical devices, online gaming and virtual reality software, imaging software, computer-based threat modeling, power distribution systems, and automotive controller area networks (CAN). The second tracked matter, the USI stylus-communication-protocol dispute involving Wacom and Shenzhen Qianfenyi/Maxeye, falls in the standards-essential-pen/stylus space.

Side preference. The tracked list shows 0 plaintiff-side and 2 defendant-side appearances, both as Bunsow De Mory counsel — one as counsel (Wacom) and one as lead counsel (Pegasus Wireless). That two-case sample materially understates the practice. Firm and directory biographies state he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in federal courts, and his PTAB docket shows him acting for both petitioners and patent owners. In his most visible recent matters he has defended patent owners — including NPE/PAE-side clients such as Pegasus Wireless and Dialect LLC — against large operating-company petitioners, while other PTAB filings list him as lead counsel for petitioners (e.g., Safe Arc Tech, Intelligent Protection Management Corp.). He is therefore best characterized as a both-sides patent practitioner whose current high-profile work skews toward defending patent owners and licensees.

Firm context. Helge joined Bunsow De Mory LLP (Redwood City, CA, with a Washington/Alexandria, VA presence) in 2024 as a partner alongside James T. Wilson, brought in to build out the firm's federal court and PTAB patent litigation practice. Prior firms include Nossaman LLP (Washington, DC), Rimon PC, and Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP. Court and PTAB filings confirm his USPTO registration (Reg. No. 56,905).

Notable matters and PTAB experience. Helge reports appearing in more than 200 IPR/post-grant proceedings, most often as lead counsel. Highlights: representing Pegasus Wireless as lead counsel in the Verizon/T-Mobile/AT&T/Nokia/Ericsson/Google IPR cluster, where the Board denied institution in roughly 10 of 11 petitions (several on discretionary-denial grounds tied to the parallel E.D. Tex. trial schedule, others on the merits), after which the district court litigation and PTAB proceedings settled; defending Dialect LLC against five Microsoft IPRs (voice recognition/speech processing), all denied on the Director's discretionary ruling that Microsoft should not be permitted to challenge patents a wholly owned subsidiary had previously owned, maintained, sold, and retained a license to; and defending DeepSig against three petitions by Digital Global Systems, securing two institution denials and a favorable final written decision on the third. On the tracked Wacom matter, Wacom's August 2026 announcement states the case resolved with a consent judgment acknowledging infringement and patent validity, a royalty-bearing license, and an arbitration-based injunction mechanism. He has briefed and argued Federal Circuit appeals and appeared in a nonprecedential Rule 36 judgment in appeal No. 24-1726.

Bar/education (as sourced). B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1997); M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2000); J.D., Roger Williams University School of Law (2005, magna cum laude). Admitted in Virginia (2005), the District of Columbia (2023), and the USPTO (2005); also a Registered Professional Engineer. Note: the tracked case list labels the Wacom matter with Wacom on the defense side, while Wacom's public filings and press releases describe it as the plaintiff asserting seven stylus patents — the caption/posture discrepancy is unexplained in the tracking data.