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THOMAS M. MORROW
Mr. Morrow graduated from the University of Houston Law Center, with highest honors, and practiced as an intellectual property associate with Baker Botts L.L.P. He focuses his practice on IP litigation. Mr. Morrow specializes in patent litigation. His patent trial practice includes representation of a patentee in a lawsuit involving gift card processing technology and defense of oil field technology litigation. His other cases have included representation of a computer reseller in copyright and trademark litigation, a magazine publisher in copyright litigation, and a group of investors in fiduciary duty litigation. Prior to focusing on litigation, he drafted and prosecuted patent applications involving all aspects of oil field drilling, cementing, and stimulation technologies, as well as applications for catalyst formulations used in polyethylene processing, and life-sciences patent applications for tissue engineering scaffolds, bone replacement materials, and intraocular devices. Mr. Morrow writes and speaks frequently on IP issues. His publications have addressed the practice of reverse engineering in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, software and business method patents, patent reexamination, patent law's written description requirement, the rights of employee-inventors in the U.S. and abroad, legislation enacted to curb anticompetitive use of pharmaceutical patents, fair use in copyright law, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He has spoken extensively on copyright law, as well as on IP litigation in the oil and gas industry and ethical issues arising in both IP litigation and IP licensing transactions. On behalf of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association, Mr. Morrow authored an amicus curiae brief that was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink, a case that involved IP and antitrust law, and co-authored a Supreme Court amicus brief filed in Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp., involving the application of 35 U.S.C. § 271(f) to software components of patented products. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Morrow worked for Amoco as a chemical manufacturing engineer and for Reichhold Chemicals as a senior plant engineer. Mr. Morrow is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section, Litigation Section, and Antitrust Section. He is admitted to practice in Texas, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of Texas, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. |
