Richard D. Egan
regan@oepelaw.com
(512) 347-1611 x15
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Mr. Egan focuses on strategic patent counseling including patent portfolio evaluations, pre-litigation patent investigations, opinions of counsel, developing intellectual property strategies for emerging companies, and intellectual property licensing. In this capacity, he performs defensive counseling for minimizing intellectual property risk exposure and for responding to patent infringement allegations. He also performs offensive counseling to maximize intellectual property valuations and establish patent enforcement strategies. Mr. Egan also provides patent litigation support/management assistance and provides expert testimony on patent matters. A portion of Mr. Egan's work also relates to patent application drafting and prosecution. In this role he has concentrated in the electrical, computer and semiconductor fields. Mr. Egan also serves as an expert witness in patent matters.
Mr. Egan has served as a court appointed Technical Advisor to Federal District Judges in patent litigations, including the following cases:
Tantivy Communications v. Lucent Technologies, 2:04-CV-79
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 5/2005 - Judge Ward
z4 Technologies v. Microsoft Corp. and Autodesk Inc., 2:04-CV-335
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 6/2005 - Judge Davis/Magistrate Judge Guthrie
Toshiba Corp. v. Hynix Semiconductor, 3:04-CV-2392-B
Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Appointed 8/2005 - Judge Boyle
Epic Realm v. Speedera, 2:05-CV-150
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 9/2005 - Magistrate Judge Craven
ConnecTel v. Cisco Systems, 2:04-CV-396
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 10/2005 - Judge Davis
Epic Realm v. AutoFlex Leasing et al. / Epic Realm v. Franklin Covey Co., et al., 2:05-CV-163 and 2:05-CV-356
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,
Appointed 12/2005 - Magistrate Judge Craven
Golden Bridge Technology v. Nokia and Lucent Technologies, 2:05-CV-151
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 1/23/06 - Magistrate Judge Love
Fenner Investments, Ltd. v. Juniper Networks, Inc. et al., 2:05-CV-5
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 1/23/06 - Magistrate Judge Love
Advanced Neuromodulation Systems v. Advanced Bionics, 4:04-CV-131
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 6/20/06 - Judge Schell
Mediatek, Inc. v. Sanyo, 6:05-CV-323
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 9/18/06 - Judge Davis
Biax Corp. v. Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc., 2:05-CV-00184
Federal District Court for fhe Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 10/18/06 - Judge Ward
Reid v. General Motors Corp., 2:05-CV-401, 2:07-CV-19
Federal District Court for the Eastern District
Appointed 4/2007 - Judge Folsom
Pioneer Corp. v. Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., 06-CV-384
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 8/2007 - Judge Folsom
Garmin Ltd v. Tomtom, Inc., 2:06-CV-338
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 8/2007 - Judge Davis
Input/Output, Inc., et al., v. Sercel, Inc., 5:06-CV-00236
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 9/2007 - Magistrate Judge Craven
Gwin, Inc. v. Don Best Sports et al., 2:06-CV-318
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Appointed 10/2007 - Judge Davis
Mr. Egan has worked in private practice for over 15 years
focusing on patent matters. Mr. Egan's current practice
includes a mix of strategic patent counseling and patent
procurement activities.
Mr. Egan has represented clients in negotiations related
to patent enforcement positions and defensive positions.
His work has included the technical and legal analysis
related to patent evaluations and the resolution and licensing
related to such work. Mr. Egan has rendered numerous formal
opinions of counsel for offensive and defensive positions.
With regard to litigation matters, Mr. Egan has provided
an in-house patent counsel role to those clients without
in-house patent counsel. For those clients with in-house
patent counsel, he has provided continued litigation assistance,
particularly with regard to technical positions.
Mr. Egan's patent procurement activities relate to patent
applications and prosecution for strategic inventions.
In this role, he focuses on the patent applications for
an entity's initial intellectual property filings. In
addition, with regard to more mature companies he specializes
in strategic applications where intellectual property
violations are likely or where improvements in intellectual
property coverage are desired.
Prior to forming O'Keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders, Mr. Egan was
an associate at Arnold, White and Durkee from 1992-1996.
In that capacity Mr. Egan was involved primarily in patent
litigation activities. Mr. Egan's litigation experience
covered a wide range of technical subject areas with an
emphasis in the semiconductor field.
Prior to entering the legal field, Mr. Egan was a development
integration engineer at Advanced Micro Devices from 1985-1989.
In that capacity he worked on transferring new products
from research and development into high volume manufacturing.
His experience included both product engineering and manufacturing
engineering. The primary products he was involved with
included non-volatile memories, static memories, and microcontrollers.
University of Texas at Austin, J.D., with high honors,
1991; Order of the Coif; Chancellors; Associate Editor,
Texas Law Review, 1991-1992.
University of Texas at Austin, B.S.E.E., with highest
honors, 1985.
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