Matthew S. Yungwirth

serves as a team lead of the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecom industry group and is the co-Chairperson of the firm’s Partners Technology Committee. He practices in the areas of intellectual property litigation with an emphasis on patents, trade secrets and trademarks. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Yungwirth has represented clients in a diverse range of litigation (district courts, International Trade Commission and Patent Trial and Appeal Board) and licensing matters related to technologies such as wireless LAN systems, cellular networks, LED semiconductors and packaging, power over Ethernet, digital watermarking, VoIP, intelligent I/Os, digital signal processing, digital cable set-top receivers, and bank networking and encryption schemes. His client base is similarly diverse and includes clients ranging Fortune 100 companies to growth stage start-ups.

Mr. Yungwirth is a 2000 cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as the managing editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, and a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., Engineering).

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2009-present
- Associate, 2002-2008
•Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Atlanta, Georgia
- Associate, 2000-2002
•Georgia Institute of Technology
- former Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Legal Profession curriculum

Honors and Awards

•Listed as a Patent and Trademark Star in Managing Intellectual Property's IP Stars, 2018-2020

•Recognized by Law & Politics and Atlanta Magazine as a Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2005, 2006, and 2009-2013
•Co-recipient of Managing Intellectual Property's 2014 Patent Firm of the Year for the South Region
•Co-recipient of Cisco's 2011 Litigation Law Firm of the Year Award

•5.0/5.0 Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Civic and Charitable Activities

•Volunteer lawyer for The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program
•Habitat for Humanity - Buildable Hours Team Leader

Selected Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Co-author, Zombie Companies: When Businesses Die, Their Patents Live On, Daily Report, August 11, 2015

•Co-author, Section 1404(A) Motions To Transfer: Strategic Considerations After TS Tech, Genentech, and Other Recent Decisions, 15th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, November 11-15, 2009
•Co-author, Conservation Subdivisions: Ecological, Landscape, Construction and Legal Applications to Cherokee County, Georgia; published by University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, Office of Public Service and Outreach, Spring 1999
• Supreme Court Rules that 35 U.S.C. 271(f)(1) Does Not Apply to Software Copied and Installed on Computers Abroad, Duane Morris Federal Circuit Alert, May 1, 2007

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Is the Smallest Saleable Unit the Right Size? IP Defense Strategy Summit, Silicon Valley, June 18, 2015
• Section 1404(A) Motions To Transfer: Strategic Considerations After TS Tech, Genentech, and Other Recent Decisions, 15th Annual Intellectual Property Law Institute, November 11-15, 2009