Roger J Fulghum

Roger is an intellectual property trial lawyer and specializes in patent and trade secret disputes. Roger works as counsel in district court proceedings and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Roger has handled patent and trade secret disputes for more than thirty years in federal and state courts across the country. He has litigated many technologies, including computer systems, consumer electronics, semiconductors, software, and fracturing equipment. Roger is a natural communicator and can explain complex concepts to executives, inventors, judges, and jurors. Roger has handled hundreds of intellectual property disputes, and he excels when things get complicated. He enjoys handling cases that are purportedly irresolvable, cases with difficult personalities on both sides, cases with novel legal theories, cases with claims in multiple jurisdictions, cases with multiple patents, cases that involve both the district court and the PTAB, and cases with overlapping patent, contract, and trade secret claims. Roger also assists clients with pre-lawsuit assertions, negotiations, and licensing. Roger is one of the few attorneys nationwide who has winning jury verdicts for both plaintiffs and defendants in trade secret misappropriation lawsuits. Roger has developed strategies for preventing pre-lawsuit assertions of patent infringement from reaching district court and for creating a favorable record that minimizes (or eliminates) the risk of willful infringement in any subsequent lawsuit in district court.

Registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

State Bar of Texas

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas

J.D., The University of Texas School of Law 1994 with honors;

B.S., Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas 1990