Greg represents and advises companies in all aspects of patent, copyright, and trade secret law. His 30 years of experience includes acting as lead counsel in jury trials and preliminary injunction hearings, counseling Fortune 500 clients on the creation and management of patent portfolios, designing around competitor patents, leading IP due diligence teams for major M&A transactions, and participating in contested patent office proceedings such as inter partes reviews and reexaminations. IAM Patent notes that Greg’s “innovative approach and strategic insight shine in every endeavor” (2024) as he “obtains meaningful patent protection for huge industry players and adroitly manages large portfolios” (2023), and has called him “a seasoned maestro” (2024), as well as “a versatile professional” with an ability to “cross[] technical divides with agility” (2022).

Over the years, Greg has litigated cases in a range of IP practice areas and related to diverse technologies—from oil field tools to polymers, to telecommunications, to pharmaceuticals, and more. For example, he defended Imaging Solutions of Australia against a multi-million dollar copyright infringement claim, first obtaining summary judgment on all plaintiffs’ claims and then obtaining a jury verdict and substantial award on the client’s counterclaims. He also defended Dyna-Drill Technologies in a 13-day jury trial against a damages claim of nearly $60 million for alleged trade secret misappropriation, tortious interference, and breach of contract.

Greg also drafts and prosecutes chemical, oil field, and biotech patents, practicing before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Capital University, cum laude, 1994

BS, Chemistry, Indiana University, with honors, 1991

• Why Is My Company Being Sued For Patent Infringement In Waco, Texas?

  By Gregory Porter |October 2020

• The Federal Circuit’s Recent Reexamination Rulings, IP and Technology Developments
• New Statute Modernizes Trade Secret Protection and Litigation in Texas, The Houston Lawyer
• Patent Trends (or Lack thereof) in Green Energy Technology, IP and Technology Developments - Special Edition, BIO Conference
• The New “Willful Blindness” Standard for Inducing Patent Infringement, IP and Technology Developments
• Focused Strategies for Successful Cost-Effective Patent Litigation
• Winning The Battle But Losing The War? - New Considerations For File Wrapper Estoppel
• When Retailers Collaborate: What You Need to Know About Allocation of Intellectual Property Rights, Retail Industry 2021 Year in Review
• AK Migration: Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents under the America Invents Act
• AK Migration: The Federal Circuit Applies Intervening Rights to Independent Claims Not Amended in Reexamination
• Andrews Kurth Launches Specialist “Intelligent Energy Law” Initiative at Subsea Expo 2014, Andrews Kurth Middle East Newsletter
• Best Practices in Oral Argument in an Inter Partes Review Hearing; Republished by IP Litigator (Wolters Kluwer)
• Supreme Court to Continue Undoing Rigid Tests in Patent Cases?
• Patent-Eligible Subject Matter in Business Method Patents
• Author’s Heir Delivers Own Knockdown Punch in “Raging Bull” Copyright Suit
• Supreme Court Gives Deference to USPTO in Post Grant Proceedings
• AK Migration: A Sharply Divided En Banc Federal Circuit Decision Limits Intervening Rights To Claims Textually Modified in Reexamination
• AK Migration: Middle East Opportunities and Challenges in Focus at ADIPEC
• I Prevailed, Now Give Me My Attorneys’ Fees
• Texas Supreme Court Holds Patent Agent Communications May Be Privileged
• IP Trends in the Energy Sector
• A New Era of US Patent Law Will Begin on March 16, 2013, IP and Tech Developments
• The Federal Circuit Agrees to Consider En Banc Whether Intervening Rights Can Apply To Independent Claims Not Amended During Reexamination
• Federal Trade Secrets Law Is Now a Reality, Soulier Strategic Lawyering Newsletter
• VirtualAgility Inc. v. Salesforce.com: Federal Circuit Reverses District Court and Requires a Stay Pending a Patent Office Review of a Covered Business Method Patent
• Through the Rabbit-Hole: Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International: Supreme Court Holds “Merely Requiring Generic Computer Implementation” Cannot Transform an “Abstract Idea into a Patent-Eligible Invention”
• Federal Trade Secrets Law Is Now a Reality
• AK Migration: Towards the Goal of Affordable Energy
• Amended Statute Harmonizes Texas and Federal Trade Secret Protection and Litigation
• Supreme Court Makes Landmark Rulings on Attorney Fees in Patent Cases
• Three Key Things to Know about WDTX Patent Litigation