Austin Teng helps companies navigate complex IP and technology disputes by combining first-hand software engineering experience with business-focused litigation judgment. Clients rely on him for steady, clear communication and practical strategy; he works shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers and executives to turn intricate technical records into actionable options, anticipate issues, and shape creative paths to strong results in and out of the courtroom.

A member of Winstead’s Business Litigation Practice Group, Austin focuses on patent infringement, trade secret litigation, and other technology-driven matters in state and federal courts. His work spans wireless and standards-based communications (including mobile power management), streaming and content delivery, display technologies, GPUs and graphics/ray tracing, data-center and networking/DPU architectures, cybersecurity (endpoint and web security), medical devices, semiconductors and fabrication processes, VoIP and corrections communications, distributed storage (erasure coding/deduplication), and oil-and-gas tools and completions. As a registered U.S. patent attorney, he also advises on patent strategy, portfolio management, and enforcement aligned with business objectives.

Representative Experience

• Represented chipmaker in suits involving streaming video and content delivery technologies, including adaptive bitrate streaming, caching, and networking, across Texas and California
• Represented patent owner in multiple actions asserting mobile networking patents concerning device power management, traffic optimization, and push notifications against major smartphone and platform providers in Texas federal courts
• Defended a cybersecurity vendor in the Western District of Texas against claims involving endpoint protection, web filtering, and malware detection technologies
• Defended a medical-device maker in Delaware in competitor litigation over minimally invasive glaucoma stent technology
• Represented patent owner in actions asserting semiconductor, Wi-Fi/standards, and power-management patents against leading chipmakers and device manufacturers in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
• Prosecuted claims for a corrections-technology provider concerning secure voice and communications systems used in detention facilities
• Defended an oilfield services company in the Southern District of Texas in a suit concerning downhole tools and completion technologies
• Asserted data-infrastructure patents relating to distributed storage, erasure coding, and deduplication against a big-data software provider in the Western District of Texas
• Brought actions on 4G/5G wireless-standards patents against a global consumer-electronics manufacturer in the Eastern District of Texas 
• Defended a large consumer electronics company in a patent lawsuit involving frame structures in wireless communication standards, multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) beamsteering and cyclic shift diversity
• Represented chipmaker in suits involving audio and video encoding and decoding, optimized graphics processing, wireless communication systems and semiconductor device fabrication
• Represented an oil and gas exploration company in a trade secrets lawsuit relating to economic modeling, drilling and completion techniques
• Defended a national jewelry retailer against trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract and fraud claims relating to warranty-repair tracking software