Brian W. LaCorte

In the Eastern District of Texas, he obtained a walkaway result against a patent enforcement entity asserting a broad patent over common e-mail technology. In Los Angeles, he successfully represented The Hertz Corp. in a jury trial involving a significant trademark license/franchise dispute. In Arizona, he was first chair in GoDaddy v. RPost International, where the court granted summary judgment on Section 101 unpatentability regarding several patents covering email technologies. That win, which was affirmed by the Federal Circuit and was denied cert. by the Supreme Court, mooted several similar patent cases in Texas, California and Maryland.

Brian has achieved victory for clients through advantageous settlement and arbitration as well. In Parsons Xtreme Golf LLC v. Taylor Made Golf—where he represented PXG as plaintiff—he negotiated the successful settlement of a sprawling 23-patent suit involving novel club designs. Following a crushing dispositive motion brought on behalf of Discount Tire, he obtained a walkaway settlement against an adverse party that had obtained lucrative settlements in dozens of enforcement actions around the country. Most recently, Brian co-led a team that achieved an opening day of trial settlement in the midst of one of the first jury trials during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Simply put, Brian is an extraordinarily skilled courtroom lawyer who is strategic, agile, and comfortable before juries and judges in federal jurisdictions around the country.