Martin C. Robson, III

Martin Robson is a Senior Counsel in the Dallas office of McKool Smith.  His practice focuses on complex business and intellectual property litigation.

During law school Mr. Robson was a judicial extern to the Honorable Blanch Manning, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois and to the Honorable Susan Fleming, Circuit Court of Cook County, Law Division.  He was also Executive Editor of the Journal of Computer and Information Law, and authored “Spinning a Seamless Web: Reevaluating Liability for Computer Network Operators in a New Era of Copyright Infringement.”

Representative Matters

• i4i Limited Partnership and Infrastructures for Information Inc. Represents i4i in a lawsuit filed against Microsoft Corporation for patent infringement involving a method and system for manipulating architecture and content of a document separately from each other. After an eight-day trial, the jury found the patent valid and infringed, rendering a verdict in favor of i4i. On appeal to the Federal Circuit, the verdict was affirmed. The case is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Lockheed Martin Corporation. Represented Lockheed Martin in an antitrust lawsuit brought by L-3 Communications involving refurbishment of P-3 fixed wing maritime surveillance aircraft by foreign governments.
• Visto Corporation. Represented Visto in several patent infringement lawsuits related to cell phone technology.
• Holly Oil Corporation. Represented Holly in a breach of contract dispute that resulted from a failed merger with Frontier Oil. After a two-week bench trial, the Delaware Chancery Court absolved Holly of all wrong doing.
• Autobytel, Inc. Represented Autobytel in multiple e-commerce patent lawsuits involving automobile sales over the Internet. The initial case settled favorably for Autobytel after jury selection.
• MediaTek, Inc. Represented MediaTek in patent infringement lawsuits against Sanyo and Matsushita involving technology directed to audio decoding and the synchronization and processing of multiple formatted video signals.
• Nortel Networks. Represented Nortel Networks in Ciena v. Nortel Networks, patent litigation related to the parties’ telecommunications and data networking products. The parties reached a confidential settlement agreement shortly before trial.

Professional & Community Activities

• Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
• Phi Delta Phi

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