Carter Arnett Bennett & Perez

Firm overview. Carter Arnett Bennett & Perez PLLC is a Dallas-based litigation boutique headquartered at Campbell Centre II (8150 N. Central Expressway) — a single-office, roughly 13-lawyer/9-partner firm (U.S. News profile). It is not an AmLaw firm; Chambers ranks it in the "Spotlight Texas Guide" for small-to-midsize firms for general commercial litigation, and founding principal E. Leon Carter holds a Band 1 Chambers USA ranking as a Texas trial lawyer (firm site, 2025–2026). Note: name partners Joshua Bennett and Courtney Barksdale Perez departed to BakerHostetler in December 2024, and the firm's website now reflects the name Carter Arnett Stahl + Cho Hernandez PLLC; the "Bennett & Perez" name in the tracked docket is the earlier-form firm.

IP litigation specialty. IP is one group within a broader trial practice. The firm says its attorneys have been lead or local counsel in 50+ patent cases since 2012, tried across the country and especially in the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas (firm "Patent Litigation" page). Represented technologies span telecommunications, semiconductors, circuitry, pharmaceuticals, and mechanical engineering (Ritzer bio), while the tracked docket is concentrated in LED/lighting optics — phosphor-based wavelength-conversion components, light-diffusing layers, and white LED filament bulbs (U.S. Patent No. 8,604,678). Marketing materials claim defense jury verdicts in fiber-optic connector and 3D-design-software cases and a defense verdict against a >$200 million damages demand for a lighting-controls manufacturer, though those results predate or are not verifiable as this firm's own trial outcomes.

Side preference. The tracked appearances skew slightly defensive (2 defendant-side, 1 plaintiff-side), with most roles as back-up counsel on PTAB filings where the firm represents patent owners (Feit Electric) fending off IPR challenges — plus lead-counsel roles for operating companies in the underlying LED-litigation web. The firm itself advertises both enforcement and defense work, and its public bios describe representing "both plaintiffs and defendants" in patent cases, so this is a both-sides practice whose recent tracked volume is patent-owner/IPR defense.

Notable tracked matters. The core matter set is the white-LED-filament dispute among Feit Electric, Savant Technologies (GE Lighting), LEDVANCE, and Elong International USA (a Seoul Semiconductor affiliate). Carter Arnett appeared for Feit Electric as patent owner in IPR2024-01357 (Savant/LEDVANCE v. Feit Electric, challenging the '678 patent), with parallel district-court actions in N.D. Ohio (Feit v. Savant, 1:24-cv-473) and N.D. Tex. (Feit v. Elong, 3:24-cv-1089) and a related Elong-filed IPR (IPR2025-00258). PTAB instituted review in March 2025; no final written decision located. The firm also represents Longhorn IP affiliates (e.g., Katana Silicon Technologies, Charge Fusion Technologies) as patent owners in IPRs against GlobalFoundries and Tesla (PTAB filings, 2022–2023).

PTAB/IPR practice. IPR defense is arguably the firm's signature patent niche. A client announcement states that Patexia's 2024 PTAB Intelligence Report ranked Carter Arnett the #1 best-performing U.S. law firm for IPRs (patent-owner side), with two of its partners in the top 10 individual performers (Longhorn IP, Sept. 2024 — a client-side source; treat the ranking as third-party-reported). Otherwise, no independent IPR-volume statistics were verified.

Key partners. Scott Breedlove — registered patent attorney (electrical engineering), former Vinson & Elkins IP partner, IAM Patent 1000 and Legal 500 listings, former chair of the Dallas Bar and State Bar of Texas IP sections. Michael C. Pomeroy — registered patent attorney and lead counsel on the tracked Feit Electric matters (Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2023–2025). Alexis L. Ritzer — registered patent attorney and former PTAB judicial law clerk, handling litigation and IPR defense. (Bradley Liddle, a former partner with an aerospace/IP-licensing background, moved to Cozen O'Connor; Joshua Bennett, who formerly led the firm's IP practice group, is now at BakerHostetler.)