steven Jugle

OF COUNSEL

Steven Jugle provides years of experience in all stages of intellectual property litigation, including invalidity analysis, infringement analysis, economic analysis, claim construction, pretrial discovery, motion practice, and trial witness preparation.

Mr. Jugle has handled numerous matters before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews.

He has also prosecuted multiple patents involving wireless and telecommunications technologies, petrochemicals, semiconductors, and solar cells. Clients across various industries have called on Mr. Jugle to manage international patent prosecutions.

Before joining Alavi and Anaipakos, Mr. Jugle focused on patent disputes at the boutique intellectual property firm AZA and the AmLaw 100 firm Baker Botts.

A former engineer at Dow Chemical Company, he earned his law degree from Harvard Law School after completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

  • Represented telecommunications equipment manufacturer and wireless carrier in patent infringement lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas and participated in preparation of inter partes review petitions with multiple co-defendants, resulting in invalidation of several asserted patents.

  • Represented telecommunications equipment manufacture and wireless carriers in patent infringement lawsuit in the District of Delaware. The case was dismissed at the summary judgment stage.

  • Represented telecommunications equipment manufacturer in patent infringement lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas. The case settled favorably after a jury finding of non-infringement against a co-defendant.
  • Harvard Law School, JD

  • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, BS, Summa Cum Laude

  • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, MS, Chemical Engineering

  • State Bar of Texas
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

Our offices are located in Houston, Texas, but our practice is nationwide and we regularly consult on matters in foreign jurisdictions as well.

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