R. Brandon Bundren
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 800
1330 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, TX 77056-3166
USA
Phone: +1 713 402 3910
Fax: +1 713 513 5761
Email:
rbbundren@duanemorris.com
R. Brandon Bundren practices in the areas of litigation with a concentration in intellectual property and commercial litigation. Mr. Bundren also has experience in general corporate and securities matters.
Mr. Bundren is a 2005 cum laude graduate of Baylor Law School, where he was senior articles editor, executive editor and articles editor for the Baylor Law Review, and a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Areas of Practice
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
Representative Matters
- Obtained a decision from a Texas trial court granting partial summary judgment for a technology services company and its president and chief operating officer in an action in which a former consultant asserted a claim for breach of contract and sought an accounting and partnership distribution. The plaintiff entered a non-suit of the remaining claims shortly after his deposition was taken.
- Obtained an order dismissing clients from a suit that was pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction after demonstrating that one client had been improperly joined by plaintiff to avoid diversity jurisdiction and that plaintiff's dispute with the other client was governed by a forum-selection clause requiring all disputes to be resolved in the state or federal courts in New Castle County, Del. Excel Marketing Solutions, Inc. v. Direct Financial Solutions, LLC, CA No. 3:11-CV-0109-D, 2011 WL 1833022, at *4 (N.D. Tex. May 13, 2011).
- Obtained a $3.15 million judgment in Texas federal court confirming two arbitration awards entered by a Hong Kong arbitral tribunal in favor of a Chinese manufacturer. China Nat'l Bldg. Material Inv. Co., Ltd. V. BNK Int'l LLC, No. 09-CA-488-SS, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 113194 (W.D. Tex. Dec. 4, 2009).
- Obtained a complete defense verdict following a two-day bench trial in Travis County, Texas, for Texas-based technology companies Round2 Inc. and Round2 Technologies, Inc. in a conversion action arising from their purchase of stolen graphics cards from individuals who had represented them as abandoned and damaged freight. The court determined that under Chapter 33 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, the companies were not liable to Micro-Star International Co., Ltd., the manufacturer, which had shipped the graphics cards to the United States from Asia.
- Obtained a final judgment on behalf of a Safwan Petroleum, a Kuwait-based petroleum company, dismissing an action brought against it by an oil-and-gas supplier in Texas federal court for lack of personal jurisdiction and insufficient service of process.
- Obtained summary judgment and a permanent injunction in favor of a video-marketing firm on its claim that the defendant had infringed the firm's intellectual property by displaying the firm's copyrighted video and photographs on the defendant's website after its license to use them had been revoked. Cynthia Hunt Prods., Ltd. v. Evolution of Fitness Houston Inc., No. H-07-0170, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77630 (S.D. Tex. Oct. 18, 2007); Cynthia Hunt Prods., Ltd. v. Evolution of Fitness Houston Inc., No. H-07-0170, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60098 (S.D. Tex. Aug. 16, 2007).
- Obtained a $20,000 final judgment on behalf of Round2 Technologies, a computer recycling and remarketing firm, in a breach-of-contract action brought in Texas state court against a company that failed to pay for the product received.
- Obtained a voluntary dismissal of an age discrimination claim on behalf of Mat Rental LLC brought in Harris County, Texas state court.
- Represented C&D Technologies, a NYSE-listed battery manufacturer, in a breach-of-contract action brought in Harris County, Texas state court regarding product installed at a NASA plant.
- Represented NRG Energy, a NYSE-listed energy company, in an action brought in Fort Bend County, Texas state court by a landowner who claimed to have an easement over property owned by NRG.
- Represented Tiffany & Co. in a deceptive trade practices suit brought by a consumer in Harris County, Texas state court.
- Represented Round2 Technologies in a suit for breach of contract and breach of warranty brought against Mazda Technologies Inc. and two individuals in Collin County, Texas state court.
- Represented franchisee against franchisor for breach of franchise agreement in Colorado federal court.
- Represented a self-storage company in a trademark, copyright and trade-dress action brought in Texas federal court against a competitor and its architect.
- Obtained summary judgment for a client in an interpleader action pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas involving a dispute over $3.4 million in proceeds escrowed from the sale of a lift-boat vessel.
Professional Activities
- American Bar Association
- Texas Bar Association
- Texas Young Lawyers Association
- Houston Bar Association
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Education
- Baylor Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2005
- Senior Articles Editor, Executive Editor, Articles Editor, Baylor Law Review - Vanderbilt University, B.A., 2002
Board Memberships
- TEXLA KCC, Inc.
- Director and Secretary
Honors and Awards
- Selected as a Texas Rising Star, 2012
Selected Publications
- "To Give or Not to Give: Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete in Texas," 57 Baylor L. Rev. 273, 2005
