Hamad Hamad

Principal Attorney @Caldwell Cassady & Curry Pc

Dallas, TX, US

Represent clients in patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, and founders’ disputes for technologies including video and audio streaming and coding, digital content distribution, scalable encryption systems, HPC cloud systems, secure communication network protocols, LTE/LTE-A standards, and more. Direct and manage technical expert consultants in technical and source code reviews and analyses. Brief and argue pre-trial and post-trial issues including claim construction, source code production, trade secret eligibility, copyright preemption, patent eligibility, copyrightability, and pre-trial and trial procedures. Depose and defend technical fact, expert witnesses, and company executives. Direct and manage attorney and paralegal teams in discovery, pre-trial, and trial projects. Coordinate with IPR and PTO counsel regarding post-grant challenges. Conduct analysis and vet potential clients including preliminary due diligence review of patent portfolios.Key Contributions Selected for Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star list for six consecutive years Promoted from Associate to Principal Attorney in 2018 Worked closely with team to win 7 multimillion dollar trials Served as trial team attorney in six patent infringement trials resulting in 9-figure verdicts for clients, software copyright bench trial resulting in defense win, and ITC hearing Orchestrated copyright defense strategy in winning case for statistical analysis software, including directing expert witness at copyrightability bench trial Served as appellate team attorney and counsel of record on patent and PTAB appeals to Federal Circuit

SMU Dedman School of Law

Doctor of Law (JD), Law

The University of Texas at Arlington

Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General