Bar/Professional Activity:

• State Bar of Texas, Travis County Bar Association, Texas Young Lawyers Association, Austin Intellectual Property Law Association, American Bar Association.

Representative Clients:

• Versata Software, Inc. et al. v. SAP AG and SAP America, Inc.  Mr. Budwin and others from McKool Smith won a substantial jury verdict on behalf of Versata in a patent infringement lawsuit alleging infringement of Versata patents related to pricing software.   Medtronic Vascular, Inc.  Medtronic Vascular, Inc. v. Boston Scientific et al.  Mr. Budwin and others from McKool Smith won a substantial jury verdict on behalf of Medtronic in a patent infringement lawsuit alleging infringement of Medtronic patents covering the design of balloon angioplasty catheters and polymers used to build those catheters.  This lawsuit settled after judgment was entered by the district court. Medtronic Vascular, Inc.  Board of Regents, University of Texas System v. Setagon, Inc. et al.  Mr. Budwin was part  of the team that represented Medtronic in a dispute involving patent applications for stent devices with porous layers for eluting therapeutic agents.  The University of Texas alleged breach of contract, fraud, conversion, misappropriation of trade secrets, misjoinder of inventors, and correction of inventors.  The case settled favorably for Medtronic, including the dismissal of all of the University of Texas's claims.   Ericsson Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA): In the Matter of: Certain Wireless Communication Equipment, Articles Therein, and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-577) before the International Trade Commission (ITC) - involving numerous patents related to hardware and software for UMTS (i.e. 3G or WCDMA) wireless telecommunication devices including wireless infrastructure equipment, cellular telephones and error-control coding used therein.   Ericsson Inc., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA): (E.D. Texas) - involving numerous patents related to hardware and software for UMTS (i.e. 3G or WCDMA) wireless telecommunication devices including wireless infrastructure equipment and cellular telephones. Nortel Networks, Inc.: Ciena Corp. v. Nortel Networks, et. al. (E.D. Texas) – represented Nortel in a matter involving multiple patents related to hardware and software for long-haul and metro WDM (wavelength division multiplexed) fiber optic networks and associated network equipment including multiplexers, demultiplexers, service channels and error-control coding used therein.