Craig Tyler

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property Law

Patent Litigation

Trademark, Copyright, Internet & Advertising

Trade Secrets

Trial Practice

Digital Media & Entertainment, Gaming & Sports

Interactive Entertainment

Regulated Gaming

Sports

Career

Craig Tyler is a first-chair trial lawyer with significant courtroom experience who has dedicated his 30-year career to complex technology cases in venues nationwide. He litigates and tries cases for plaintiffs and defendants involving infringement of IP rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, and trade secrets. Craig also handles commercial disputes involving technology, such as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and tortious interference claims. Rare for an IP litigator, he is equally comfortable in state and federal courts and has tried IP disputes across the country, including in Texas, California, Delaware, Washington, and Michigan. Craig has achieved historic results at trial for his clients, including a landmark patent litigation win for AUO and Hisense in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Craig’s primary focus is his clients’ needs and goals. He invests the time to understand each client’s business and the specific dispute. He develops individualized strategies, prioritizes pragmatic solutions to legal and technical challenges, which do not always require litigation. When a dispute proceeds to litigation, Craig partners with clients to define and achieve their case-specific objectives.

Craig has extensive experience in litigation involving complex technologies in computer electronics, software, and hardware across a range of industries. His work spans OLED, LCD, and LED operation and manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, RFID, touch-screen manufacturing, oil and gas drilling and production technologies, retail, medical devices, e-learning, ergonomic design, solar energy, gaming, and videoconferencing.

He has litigated cases across the United States and represented clients in appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of the United States.