GH IP Law

GH IP Law (Garteiser Honea, PLLC) — Patent Litigation Practice Profile

Firm overview. GH IP Law is the marketing name for Garteiser Honea, PLLC, a small IP trial boutique headquartered at 119 W. Ferguson Street in Tyler, Texas, with a second office in San Rafael, California (Bay Area). Named partners Randall Garteiser and Christopher Honea — both alumni of Quinn Emanuel's Silicon Valley office, with Honea a former McKool Smith attorney and electrical engineer — opened the Tyler office in 2013 specifically to litigate in the Eastern District of Texas (ghiplaw.com; firm press release). The firm describes itself as handling complex IP and business disputes as lead counsel and as local counsel in East Texas and Northern California. It is not an AmLaw-ranked firm and no Chambers ranking surfaced in public sources; Texas bar records list the firm at 2–5 attorneys, and third-party aggregators (Owler) estimate fewer than 10 employees — figures that are unverified and should be treated cautiously. In short, it is a regional/national plaintiff-side IP trial boutique rather than a BigLaw or large regional practice.

IP litigation specialty and side preference. The firm's stated fields are software, electronics, oil and gas, and life sciences, with public dockets concentrated in computer-implemented and digital-media patents: Bluetooth/wearable connectivity (Cellspin), barcode/QR-code scanning software (Symbology Innovations), digital watermarking/content fingerprinting (Blue Spike), and wireless/social-communication software (Display Technologies). On side preference, the data are thin — only one appearance is tracked (plaintiff side, lead counsel, for Cellspin Soft v. Senseonics, E.D. Tex.). That tracked case and the firm's broader public docket skew heavily toward plaintiff-side enforcement for non-practicing entities (Cellspin, Blue Spike, Symbology and sister entities under Patent Asset Management, Wyoming IP Holdings), though the firm's own materials tout defense work for operating companies (e.g., iShopUSA, Extenda Communications) and its website says it prosecutes and defends. The accurate characterization is a plaintiff-side/NPE-heavy docket with nominal capacity on both sides.

Notable cases and outcomes. The flagship tracked matter is Cellspin Soft, Inc. v. Senseonics Holdings, Inc. et al. (2:24-cv-263, E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap), a 2024 NPE suit over three patents against continuous-glucose-monitoring device makers; the case has been stayed since February 2025 pending parallel IPRs (see below). Garteiser Honea also led Cellspin's successful §101 opposition in Cellspin v. Fitbit/Nike/Under Armour et al. (N.D. Cal.), where Judge Gonzalez Rogers denied summary judgment of invalidity in April 2021 (Bloomberg Law coverage; firm's own "victories" page), with a Federal Circuit appeal docketed (No. 23-1526). Adverse results are also on the record: the firm lost a §101 judgment on the pleadings for Blue Spike against Google (N.D. Cal. 2015), and in January 2025 Chief Judge Gilstrap granted Valve's Rule 11 motions in the Symbology Innovations and Quantum Technology Innovations venue disputes, sanctioning Randall Garteiser personally with 60 hours of ethics/FRCP continuing education; Garteiser filed proof of compliance in May 2025 (public opinion via Trellis/CourtListener; Bloomberg News).

PTAB/IPR practice. The firm's PTAB activity is visible mainly as patent-owner defense counsel: Garteiser Honea (principally M. Scott Fuller) represents Cellspin as patent owner against TikTok-, LifeScan-, and Senseonics-filed IPRs (IPR2024-00757 et seq., IPR2025-00102–104), coordinating with René Vazquez of Sinergia Technology Law Group as lead IPR counsel. In that posture the firm has had notable procedural wins — the USPTO Director vacated institution of the TikTok IPRs in March 2026 over real-party-in-interest/ownership issues, and the Board then instituted the Senseonics IPRs on all three patents in April 2026 (Senseonics SEC filings). No data support a characterization of the firm as a high-volume IPR petitioner; public filings indicate a modest, defendant-facing PTAB presence. No Chambers/industry ranking of its IPR practice was found.

Key partners. The practice leaders reliably sourced are Randall Garteiser (named partner, lead counsel on the tracked Cellspin matter and most of the firm's NPE docket) and Christopher Honea (named partner), with M. Scott Fuller prominent as co-counsel on Cellspin's §101 defense and PTAB work (firm website and PTAB mandatory notices). Peter Corcoran appears in the tracked-case roster but his role could not be independently verified from public sources; René Vazquez, listed in the tracked roster, is affiliated with Sinergia Technology Law Group and functions as IPR co-counsel rather than a GH IP Law partner.

Sources: ghiplaw.com (About/Team/Victories), Justia and CourtListener dockets, PTAB filings, the E.D. Tex. sanctions opinion (Trellis), Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg Tax news, and Senseonics SEC filings. Owler headcount/revenue estimates are third-party and unverified.