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Theodore Stevenson III

McKool Smith PC
  • Recognized Since:
    2007
  • Recognized in:
    Bet-the-Company Litigation
    Commercial Litigation...
  • Website:
    http://www.mckoolsmith.com
  • Location:
    300 Crescent Court, Suite 1500
    Dallas, TX 75201
Ted Stevenson is a Principal in the Dallas office of McKool Smith.  Ted is a trial lawyer and registered patent attorney who has been focused on patent cases for nearly 20 years. Ted has extensive federal trial experience, having won courtroom victories in patent cases involving diverse technologies such as balloon angioplasty catheters, integrated circuits, prepaid calling cards, drilling rigs, and enterprise software.  Ted also has tried and won non-patent cases alleging trade secret violations, trade dress infringement, and software performance.  Between September 2007 and August 2009 Ted tried five patent cases, three of which resulted in nine figure verdicts in favor of his clients.

Ted has consistently been recognized as one of the best patent litigators in the country.  In 2011 Ted was recognized as the best patent litigator in Dallas by Best lawyers in America.  Texas Lawyer Magazine recognized Ted as one of the five “go-to” intellectual property litigators in the state.  Ted is consistently named by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America in the areas of intellectual property litigation, commercial litigation, and bet-the-company litigation.  Texas Super Lawyersconsistently ranks Ted among its top-100 lawyers in Texas. 

Prior to focusing on patent litigation in 1995, Ted had an active trial docket.  Ted has tried cases, both to juries and to the court, for securities fraud, product liability, death penalty habeas corpus, computer software non-performance, divorce, and landlord tenant.  Ted enjoys teaching trial advocacy, which he does regularly as a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and also as a presenter at legal seminars.
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Ted Stevenson is a Principal in the Dallas office of McKool Smith.  Ted is a trial lawyer and registered patent attorney who has been focused on patent cases for nearly 20 years. Ted has extensive federal trial experience, having won courtroom victories in patent cases involving diverse technologies such as balloon angioplasty catheters, integrated circuits, prepaid calling cards, drilling rigs, and enterprise software.  Ted also has tried and won non-patent cases alleging trade secret violations, trade dress infringement, and software performance.  Between September 2007 and August 2009 Ted tried five patent cases, three of which resulted in nine figure verdicts in favor of his clients.

Ted has consistently been recognized as one of the best patent litigators in the country.  In 2011 Ted was recognized as the best patent litigator in Dallas by Best lawyers in America.  Texas Lawyer Magazine recognized Ted as one of the five “go-to” intellectual property litigators in the state.  Ted is consistently named by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America in the areas of intellectual property litigation, commercial litigation, and bet-the-company litigation.  Texas Super Lawyersconsistently ranks Ted among its top-100 lawyers in Texas. 

Prior to focusing on patent litigation in 1995, Ted had an active trial docket.  Ted has tried cases, both to juries and to the court, for securities fraud, product liability, death penalty habeas corpus, computer software non-performance, divorce, and landlord tenant.  Ted enjoys teaching trial advocacy, which he does regularly as a faculty member of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and also as a presenter at legal seminars.
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Education:

  • Northwestern University, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, graduated 1985

Bar Admissions:

  • Texas, State Bar of Texas

Affiliations:

  • American Bar Association - Member
  • Dallas Bar Association - Member
  • Eastern District of Texas Bar Associations - Member
  • Federal Circuit Bar Association - Member

Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for:

  • Litigation - Patent, Dallas/Fort Worth (2020)
  • Trade Secrets Law, Dallas/Fort Worth (2017)
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation, Dallas (2014)
  • Litigation - Patent, Dallas (2012)
 

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Patent
  • Trade Secrets Law
 

Awards:

  • Named the Best Lawyers 2012 Dallas Litigation - Patent "Lawyer of the Year"
  • Recommended as a leading U.S. patent litigator by Legal 500
  • Named a "National IP Litigation Star" and "Texas Litigation Star" by Benchmark Plaintiff
  • Ranked as an Intellectual Property "Litigation Star" by Benchmark Litigation
  • Ranked in Chambers USA as a leading intellectual property lawyer in Texas
  • Listed in Super Lawyers every year since 2005
  • Named in the Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America
  • Listed in Lawdragon 3000
  • Listed as Texas Lawyer "Go-To Counsel" for intellectual property

Special Focus:

  • Antitrust
  • Civil Litigation
  • Electronics
  • False Advertising
  • Intellectual Property
  • Internet
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Patent
  • Software
  • Technology
  • Trade Secrets
 

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