Source: https://www.krcl.com/attorney/bruce-c-morris/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 08:42:44+00:00

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Bruce “Chip” Morris, a Director in the Houston office, is the head of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Whether it’s recovering lost profits for the patent holder of one of the most successful infomercial products, protecting the trade secrets of how to build the world’s fastest street car, representing a major television network against a cyber-squatter, or being on the cutting edge of covenant not to compete and trade secret law, Chip Morris has over 23 years of experience successfully representing and counseling clients on a wide range of intellectual property litigation and counseling matters.
Chip is the current Chairman of the ABA Copyright Litigation Sub-Committee on the DMCA and the former Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Sub-Committee on Trade Secrets and Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations. He has extensive experience in litigating trade secret and covenant not to compete cases, having been involved in over 50 successful trials, injunction hearings, arbitration or contempt hearings, and authored successful briefs in two of the most significant appellate decisions in the area. Chip has been quoted nationally by CNN.com and Wired Magazine as an expert on trade secret cases of national interest.
Chip also has extensive patent, copyright, trademark and unfair competition litigation experience, including trying three patent cases to successful verdict. His recent work involves authoring two chapters of the ABA Copyright Litigation Strategies book and co-authoring a successful brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on a patent jurisdiction issue. He has also obtained injunctive relief against future trademark infringement in favor of a high-profile political advocacy group, injunctive relief against future unfair competition in favor of a successful real estate company and obtaining a Final Arbitration Award enforcing a non-compete/non-disclosure agreement obtaining injunction, damages and attorney fees for the client.
In addition to his wide-ranging litigation experience, Mr. Morris has prepared numerous licensing agreements and is often requested by clients to provide advice on licensing issues, intellectual property protection policies, employment policies, employment agreements and other business-related issues.
Successfully represented clients in over 50 trade secret and covenant not to compete cases and obtained favorable appellate decisions in two of the leading cases in the area.
Obtained for clients over 70 favorable temporary restraining orders and/or temporary injunction orders protecting their respective intellectual property.
Co-authored a successful brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on patent issues.
Obtained favorable jury verdict awarding over $19 million in consumer product trademark, copyright, and patent infringement action against a major infomercial company.
Obtained bench verdict in consumer product trademark and copyright infringement case against five national retailers that resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement for the client.
Obtained favorable jury verdict of non-infringement in patent infringement case against manufacturer of walkway molds. The jury verdict dissolved the injunction that had been entered against the client prior to our entering the case.
Obtained favorable bench verdict in patent infringement action against manufacturer of oil field measuring devices.
Obtained favorable liability finding in contempt action against patent infringers in the oil field industry.
Obtained favorable contempt finding in oil field industry trade secret case.
Successfully prosecuted trademark infringement action against valve manufacturer.
Successfully defended large garbage truck manufacturer against patent infringement allegations.
Successfully settled patent infringement case for an online retailer.
Successfully represented large television network against cyber-squatter.
Successfully obtained injunctive relief against a future trademark infringement in favor of a high-profile political advocacy group.
Counseled multiple clients on IP licensing and other IP transactional matters.
Counseled multiple clients on employment law matters.
Successfully obtain injunctive relief, damages and attorneys’ fees for client in arbitration involving non-compete/non-disclosure agreement.
Successfully represented oil company in international lease dispute.
Successfully represented oil company in international offshore platform contract dispute.
Obtained favorable jury verdict awarding over $1.8 million in real estate easement case.
Successfully defended large oil company in contract dispute arbitration.
Gunn v. Minton, 133 S.Ct. 1059 (U.S. 2013) (reversing Texas Supreme Court’s ruling that the Federal Circuit had exclusive jurisdiction to hear attorney malpractice claims involving patents).
Alex Sheshunoff Management Services, L.P. v. Johnson, 209 S.W.3d 644 (Tex. 2006) (relaxing requirements for enforceable non-compete agreements in Texas).
Subaru of America, Inc. v. David McDavid Nissan, Inc., 84 S.W.3d 212 (Tex. 2002) (setting forth requirements for when cases must go to an administrative body prior to filing suit).
T-N-T Motorsports, Inc. v. Hennessey Motorsports, Inc., 965 S.W.2d 18 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1998, pet. dism’d) (upholding finding of trade secret misappropriation despite there not being either a non-disclosure agreement or non-compete agreement).
Additive Controls & Measurement Sys., Inc. v. Flowdata, Inc., 154 F.3d 1345 (Fed. Cir. 1998) (upholding trial court’s finding of contempt for patent infringement against a non-party).
Hupp v. Siroflex of America, Inc., 122 F.3d 1456 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (upholding jury finding of non-infringement of design patent).
Additive Controls & Measurement Sys., Inc. v. Flowdata, Inc., 96 F.3d 1390 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (substantially upholding trial court’s denial of Rule 60(b) motions regarding injunction entered as a result of patent infringement finding).

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