Christopher J. Tyson

Christopher J. Tyson practices in the area of intellectual property law, including analysis, acquisition, enforcement and defense. Mr. Tyson has experience with complex intellectual property litigation in federal courts from pre-filing stages through discovery, summary judgment, and trial.  Mr. Tyson has worked on a variety of intellectual property litigation matters, including matters related to patent, copyright, and trademark infringement. He provides technical and legal analysis, works with experts, manages discovery, takes and defends depositions, and prepares and argues motions, and manages the day-to-day efforts of trial teams. He has supported cases in the Eastern District of Virginia, Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, District of Delaware, Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan, District of Utah, District of Massachusetts, District of New Jersey, District of Columbia, Central and Northern Districts of California, District of Kansas, Northern District of Illinois, and U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He has prepared non-infringement and invalidity opinions and assisted in defensive proceedings, including declaratory judgment actions in federal court. He is a member of the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board practice group and has been lead or backup counsel of record in multiple post-grant proceedings before the Board, from drafting the initial petitions through arguing in final Trial Hearings.

Mr. Tyson prosecutes patent and trademark applications before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a registered patent attorney, focusing in the mechanical and electrical arts. He assists clients in the acquisition of U.S. and foreign patent rights in diverse technologies such as data communications, encryption, and networking, telecommunications, video conferencing, wireless communications (including WiFi and 3GPP protocols and infrastructure), VoIP (including SIP protocols and infrastructure), mobility (including Mobile IP and other tunneling techniques), optical communications (including precoding, modulation techniques, amplifiers, add/drop multiplexing and switching, demodulation, equalization, and interference cancellation), e-commerce, internet of things (IoT), nuclear power and energy, propulsion plant systems, shipboard environmental systems, thin film deposition, semiconductor fabrication and packaging, medical devices, vehicle, and design patents. Mr. Tyson also has experience with due diligence reviews of patents and trademarks, conducting patent and trademark searches, drafting prosecution-related opinions, and the drafting and analyzing of intellectual property licenses and agreements including patent, trademark, software, and know how, licenses and agreements.  

Mr. Tyson has experience representing U.S. military veteran clients before the U.S Court of Appeals of Veterans Claims, Board of Veterans Appeals, and the Department of the VA. He also serves as one of two chairs of the Firm's military discharge upgrade practice groups comprised of attorneys representing U.S. military veteran clients before branch-specific Discharge Review Boards and the Board of Correction for Military Records.

Prior to his legal career, Mr. Tyson served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy, where he managed the operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants in a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, including electrical power generation and distribution, mechanical and propulsion plant systems, and was qualified as a nuclear engineering officer.

Mr. Tyson is a graduate of George Mason University School of Law. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (B.S., Ocean Engineering) and Old Dominion University (M.S., Engineering Management). He is proficient in Spanish and Italian.