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Steven G. Schortgen

Partner
Dallas
+1.214.939.5567
Fax +1.214.939.5849

Primary Practice

Secondary Practices

Education

  • J.D., Cornell Law School, 1995, (magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Editor, Cornell Law Review; West Outstanding Scholastic Achievement, top four students in class)
  • B.A., Trinity University, 1992, (magna cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa)

Admissions

  • Bar of Texas
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
  • Biography Overview
  • Additional Background
  • Representative Work

Steve Schortgen has substantial experience in complex intellectual property litigation of all kinds: patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark.  He writes and speaks frequently on copyright, trade secret and patent issues as they relate to technology clients. Because he has personally published commercial software, Mr. Schortgen has special insight into litigation issues in computer and computer-related industries.

As a natural extension to his intellectual property practice, Mr. Schortgen has significant experience in noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements and the issues surrounding departing employees, including forensic investigations of computer and computer related media.

Mr. Schortgen has written and counseled extensively in the area of electronic discovery.

 

Achievements

  • Selected by D Magazine as one of the "Best Lawyers Under 40" in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2002 and again in 2006
  • Named by Law & Politics as a "Texas Rising Star," 2004-2006, 2008-2009

Professional/Civic Activities

  • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
  • Dallas Bar Associations
  • United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, various committees, including past President of Young Leader's Society

Speaking Engagements

  • More than three dozen speeches on electronic discovery and evidence for continuing legal education seminars, including the State Bar of Texas e-discovery workshop
  • Quoted in "Making Rain on the Net," ABA Journal, August 2006
  • Quoted in "The Zubulake Road Show," ABA Journal, February 2005
  • "Intellectual Property and E-Business," Sage U.S. Software Developer's Conference
  • "Protecting Your Business: Using Written Contracts to Minimize Liability," Sage U.S. Retailer's Conference
  • "Texas Technology, quoted multiple times on various intellectual property and litigation matters

Publications

  • West's Texas Jurisprudence Pleading and Practice Forms, 2d ed., 2001, author of more than a half-dozen sections concerning intellectual property claims
  • "Two Bites of the Trade Secret Misappropriation Apple," Texas Lawyer, May 2000
  • "Conducting Discovery in America While Winding Up a European Concern," Butterworths Atkin's Court Forms, 2d ed., Volume 10 (British equivalent of Moore's Federal Practice), 2000
  • "The Almost Perfect Crime: Using Misappropriation to Fill the Gaps in Unfair Competition Law," Texas Lawyer, September 1999
  • "Dressing Up Software Interface Protection: The Application of Two Pesos to "Look and Feel,'" Cornell Law Review (awarded third place in the Brand Names Foundation's national competition for the best overall article in the field of trademark law)
  • Northrop Grumman Corporation - patent dispute involving vehicle monitoring software and systems
  • Fairchild Semiconductor - false marking patent action
  • Applica, Inc. - lead trial counsel in ITC section 337 action In the Matter of Certain Self Cleaning Litter Boxes and Components Thereof
  • Verizon Communications, Inc. - patent dispute involving telecommunications technology
  • Custom Food Group - trade secret lawsuit involving food industry
  • Defense of major law firm in patent malpractice lawsuit
  • BearingPoint, Inc. - high profile dispute involving more than sixty information technology systems
  • Erie Management Group - defense of high-profile lawsuit involving device for detection of biological and chemical warfare agents using Raman spectroscopy
  • Alcatel Lucent - more than a half-dozen lawsuits involving trade secret, copyright, trademark and contract claims, including representation of Alcatel as plaintiff in multiple million dollar plus settlements
  • Affiliated Computer Systems - arbitration involving a dozen information technology systems
  • Advanced Medical Optical - patent lawsuit involving eye surgery products
  • Fox Television Stations, Inc. - contract and trade secret dispute with another major broadcasting company
  • OsteoMed, L.P. - trade secret lawsuit involving surgical devices
  • The Scotts Company - complete defense verdict vindicating Scotts nutrient product in a lawsuit dealing with fertilizer chemistry
  • Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. - trade secret lawsuit against former employees and multiple startup companies, resulting in complete cessation of business for startup companies
  • Seisint, Inc. - trade secret lawsuit involving computer data warehouses
  • i2 Technologies, Inc. - multiple lawsuits, including trademark disputes
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