Michael Simons

Background

About Michael Simons

Mr. Simons' practice focuses on IP litigation, including patent infringement, trade secret, trade dress and copyright litigation. Mr. Simons has extensive trial experience including first-chair experience in patent infringement and trade secret jury trials. Practice & Background Mr. Simons is a member of the Austin Bar Association and the Austin Young Lawyers Association. Representative Matters Mr. Simons’ engagements include representation of: A neurosurgeon in a trade secret and correction of inventorship case against one of the largest privately held medical device companies in the United States. Obtained a large jury verdict after a jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas in January 2014.(Eastern District of Texas) One of the world’s largest chemical companies in the prosecution of a trade secret case in Houston that ended in a verdict that was identified by The National Law Journal as one of the 10 largest verdicts in America in 2006. One of the largest medical device companies in the United States in a three-week jury trial on patent infringement claims related to angioplasty catheter design technology (Western District of Oklahoma) One of the largest online vacation rental companies in a trademark and unfair competition case against a major competitor who launched a national advertising campaign that utilized images and branding that was confusingly similar to core elements of the client’s logo and branding.(Western District of Texas)