Counsel registry

Morris, Tinsley & Kyzar

1 case appearance — 0 as plaintiff counsel · 1 as defendant counsel.

Firm overview

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Summary: Morris, Tinsley & Kyzar — patent litigation profile

Verification caveat up front. I was unable to verify this firm through any public source. Searches for "Morris, Tinsley & Kyzar," "Morris Tinsley Kyzar," and related name variants returned no results, and no firm website, Chambers profile, Law360 firm page, Vault listing, or AmLaw entry surfaced. I therefore cannot state its headquarters, office footprint, headcount, or size classification (BigLaw vs. IP boutique vs. regional shop). Nothing below should be read as confirming any of those attributes; the absence of a public footprint is itself the finding, and it is unusual enough that the firm name should be independently confirmed against the docket before the profile is relied on.

Firm overview. The only authoritative data is the tracked-appearance record: one appearance, on the defendant side, in the role of local counsel. No ranking, revenue, attorney count, or office location can be responsibly attributed. A single local-counsel appearance is consistent with a small regional or Texas-based shop used for in-district representation, but that is inference, not sourced fact, and I am not asserting it.

IP litigation specialty and side preference. The tracked case is Omni MedSci, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al., No. 2:24-cv-01070-JRG-RSP (E.D. Tex.), a patent dispute over wearable optical devices that non-invasively measure physiological parameters (LED/photodetector biosensing in smartwatches and smart rings, including claimed signal-to-noise improvements via on/off signal comparison). The firm appears for a defendant. With 0 plaintiff-side appearances and 1 defendant-side appearance, the record shows a defense posture, and specifically a local-counsel posture rather than lead merits counsel. No practice-area description on the firm's own site could be located, so technology-area breadth cannot be characterized.

Notable cases. The Omni MedSci v. Samsung matter is the sole tracked case and the only one worth describing. Public filings retrieved from it indicate the firm's co-counsel roster on the defense side included Sheppard Mullin, Mayer Brown, and Fish & Richardson as lead counsel, with Cherry Johnson Siegmund James and Potter Minton handling local-counsel roles for certain co-defendants (OnePlus and Oura Health, respectively). The docket excerpts I retrieved did not themselves display "Morris, Tinsley & Kyzar" or William E. Morris, so the firm's specific role and the identity of its client among the co-defendants remain unverified. I found no verdict, settlement, or Federal Circuit outcome attributable to this firm.

PTAB / IPR practice. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB filing by this firm is publicly attributable to it, and no public report supports any filing volume. The underlying Omni MedSci dispute does feature heavy parallel PTAB activity — Samsung and co-petitioners filed IPR2025-01249 through -01254 and PGR2025-00063 and -00064 against the asserted family — but those petitions were filed by the defendants' lead counsel (Sheppard Mullin, Mayer Brown, Fish & Richardson), not by this firm. That activity should not be credited to Morris, Tinsley & Kyzar.

Key partners. William E. Morris is the only attorney tracked. I could not verify his bar admission, office, or practice description through a firm site or industry ranking, and I found no verifiable information on the other name partners (Tinsley, Kyzar). Given the sourcing gaps, I recommend confirming the firm's existence, current name, and office location directly with the docket and state bar records before publishing any partner-level detail.

Attorneys

Roles

  • local counsel1

Cases (1)