M. Craig Tyler is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati's intellectual property litigation practice in Austin, Texas, where he specializes in complex intellectual property litigation involving complicated technology in a variety of industries. Craig focuses on litigating and trying patent infringement and validity matters for clients in the LCD, software, Internet, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, gaming, e-learning, semiconductor, VoIP, medical device, computer-associated hardware, and oil and gas industries. In his 18-year career, he has litigated more than 140 patent infringement cases, including eight trials, in federal courts in Texas, Delaware, California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, Kansas, Utah, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Nevada.
Craig also provides guidance, counseling, and coordination of patent enforcement and patent defense efforts throughout the world. Specifically, he has assisted clients with patent-related issues in Japan, Taiwan, China, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Australia, and Canada. Through this work, Craig has developed a global network of trusted patent prosecutors and patent litigators, and these relationships enable him to counsel clients regarding patent enforcement issues outside the United States.
Craig has extensive experience in related intellectual property litigation matters, such as misappropriation of trade secrets, trade dress, trademark infringement, Lanham Act, copyright infringement, enforceability of covenants not to compete, and unfair competition claims. He has in-depth experience and training in ex parte/emergency proceedings for temporary and preliminary injunctions involving trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and patent infringement claims in both federal and state courts in Texas and other states. Further, Craig has significant experience in complex commercial arbitration proceedings.
An accomplished appellate lawyer, Craig has won recent appeals at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He is a member of the appellate bars of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
In addition to his courtroom litigation experience, Craig has significant experience in AAA and JAMS arbitration proceedings. He has prosecuted patent and trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, negotiated complex software and patent license agreements, drafted employment agreements concerning ownership of intellectual property, and counseled clients regarding the ownership, development, and protection of their intellectual property.
Prior to joining the firm, Craig was with the firms of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Vinson & Elkins.
