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Printer Friendly Version THOMAS M. MORROW tmorrow@yettercoleman.com | 713.632.8070 |  vCard
Mr. Morrow graduated from the University of Houston Law Center, with highest honors. He focuses his practice on IP litigation. Mr. Morrow specializes in patent litigation. His patent trial practice includes representation of oilfield services companies in several cases involving drilling technology, blowout preventers, and casing exit systems; a provider of internet telephony services; and the holder of a patent covering gift card processing technology. His experience includes arguing at Markman hearings and obtaining a pay-nothing dismissal with prejudice (pre-Markman) for an oilfield defendant in the Eastern District of Texas. Before focusing on litigation, he drafted and prosecuted patent applications in a variety of technologies, including oil field drilling, cementing, and stimulation; catalyst formulations used in manufacturing polyethylene; tissue-engineering scaffolds; bone-replacement materials; and intraocular devices. His other IP cases have included representing an oilfield services company in trade secret litigation, a computer reseller in copyright and trademark litigation, a magazine publisher in copyright litigation, and a national nonprofit organization in trademark litigation. 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, the rights of employee-inventors in the U.S. and abroad, fair use in copyright law, and other topics. He has spoken extensively on several areas of copyright law, as well as on IP litigation in the oil and gas industry. 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 U.S. 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. By education, he is a chemical 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, Litigation, and Antitrust Sections. 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. |