Peter Corcoran is the founder of The Corcoran Law Firm. Peter’s practice is focused on serving his clients through the practice of law in intellectual property (“IP”) (patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights) and civil litigation matters
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nationally, and family law and criminal law matters in the Texarkana and Bowie County, TX areas (1 Peter 4:10). Peter offers contingency and hybrid-fee arrangements for IP and civil litigation and reasonable flat fee and hourly fee arrangements for family law and criminal law matters. For IP matters, Peter also handles inter partes reviews, covered business method reviews, licensing, and monetization throughout the United States.
Since 2000, Peter has litigated patent and other IP infringement cases from complaint through trial and appeal on both the plaintiff and defendant sides throughout the United States. He has a unique familiarity with patent law, local patent rules, and procedures in the federal district and appeals courts, especially in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Peter served as a law clerk to retired Chief Judge Randall Rader of the Federal Circuit and to retired Chief Judge David Folsom of the Eastern District of Texas. From these clerkships and his litigation experience, Peter provides his clients with a distinct and unparalleled understanding of the federal district courts and the Federal Circuit.
Before founding The Corcoran Law Firm, Peter worked as an IP litigator at Kirkland & Ellis and Winston & Strawn–two of the nation’s top IP litigation firms. He also worked as an IP litigator at Thompson & Knight in Dallas and at the contingency IP litigation boutique Antonelli, Harrington & Thompson in Houston. At these firms, Peter gained the valuable IP litigation experience and creative skills that he continues to provide his clients today.
During law school, Peter served as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) for four years, where he examined thousands of patent applications in the speech signal processing and computer software arts. This experience provided Peter with firsthand knowledge of the patent application process and PTO procedures. Before law school, Peter worked for Harris Corporation, developing user-interface software for the nation’s air traffic control system. This experience, in addition to his PTO experience, provided Peter with valuable knowledge of commercial software design, development, and testing that he uses when representing his clients in software patent infringement cases.
Peter’s bachelor and master’s degrees in electrical engineering, and his master’s degree in IP law, provide him an even deeper understanding of electrical, computer, software, semiconductor, and telecommunications technologies and their relationship to IP law. Peter has written and spoken and has been quoted regarding the latest IP topics and is an active member of multiple national IP bar associations.
Peter served in the United States Navy (active duty and reserves) and retired as a “Mustang” Commander (O-5) after beginning his career nearly twenty-seven years earlier as an enlisted Airman (E-1). For nineteen years, Commander Corcoran constructed, maintained, and modernized nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, and surface ships as a project manager and engineer. He continues serving veterans by representing them pro bono before the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court involving veterans’ benefits claims.
Litigation and Other Matters:
Voit Technologies, LLC v. Del-Ton, Inc., No. 18-1536 (Fed. Cir, docketed Feb. 8, 2018 ) (represent Appellant Voit Technologies in appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina involving the eligibility of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,510,154 and 8,630,894 under 35 U.S. § 101).
Talent Broker Technologies LLC v. Musical.ly, Inc., No 2:17-cv-8532-SJO-MRW (C.D. Cal., filed Nov. 22, 2017) (represent Plaintiff Talent Broker Technologies for patent infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,510,154 and 8,630,894, titled “Method and System for Searching For and Monitoring Assessment of Original Content Creators and the Original Content Thereof”).
Zito LLC v. CRJ, Inc., No. 1.17-cv-01733-JKB (D. Md., filed Jun. 23, 2017) (represent Plaintiff Zito LLC for patent infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,398,921 and 9,443,369, titled “User-Specific Dispensing System”).
Audio Evolution Diagnostics, Inc. v. AMD Global Telemedicine Inc., No. 1:16-cv-1280-LPS (D. Del., filed Dec. 20, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Audio Evolution Diagnostics for patent infringement of U.S. patent Nos. 8,920,343 and 8,870,791, titled “Apparatus for Acquiring and Processing of Physiological Auditory Signals” and “Apparatus for Acquiring, Processing, and Transmitting Physiological Sounds,” respectively).
Wetro Lan LLC v. [5 Defendants], 5:16-cv-152 [to -156]-RWS (E.D. Tex., filed Oct. 4, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Wetro Lan in actions for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,795,918, titled “Service Level Computer Security”).
Listou Search Technologies LLC v. The Mens Wearhouse, Inc. and Stanley Korshak, LP, 5:16-cv-144 and -145-RWS (E.D. Tex., filed Sept. 21, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Listou Search Technologies in actions for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,216,139, titled “Integrated Dialog Box For Rapidly Altering Presentation of Parametric Text Data Objects On A Computer Display”).
Reef Mountain LLC v. [9 Defendants], 5:16-cv-132 [to -140]-RWS (E.D. Tex., filed Sept. 15, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Reef Mountain in actions for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 8,239,481, titled “System and Method for Implementing Open-Control Remote Device Control”).
Venadium LLC v. [5 Defendants], Nos. 5:16-cv-118 [to -122]-RWS (E.D. Tex., filed Aug. 31, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Venadium in actions for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,330,549, titled “Protected Shareware”).
Novocrypt LLC v. [6 Defendants], 5:16-cv-108 [to -113]-RWS-CMC (E.D. Tex., filed Aug. 22, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Novocrypt in actions for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 7,743,213, titled “Portable Storage Device With Network Function”).
Packet Tread LLC v. [9 Defendants], 5:16-cv-86 [to -94]-JRG-CMC (E.D. Tex., filed July 9, 2016) (represent Plaintiff Packet Tread in actions for patent infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,310,864, titled “Voice Echo Cancellation for SVD Modems”).
Counsel of Record, Brief for Amicus Federal Circuit Bar Association in support of Petitioner Curtis Scott, Curtis Scott v. Robert McDonald, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, No. 15-1054 (U.S. Supreme Court, filed Mar. 21, 2016).
