Mr Jeffrey B. Plies > Dechert LLP > Austin, United States > Lawyer Profile
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AUSTIN, TX 78701
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Mr Jeffrey B. Plies
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Career
Jeffrey B. Plies, chair of Dechert’s Intellectual Property group, represents technology and medical device companies in patent litigation. As a former engineer for the U.S. Air Force Electronics Systems Center, the U.S. Army Materials Technology Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the MITRE Corporation, Mr. Plies’ diverse technical expertise includes direct working experience with technologies such as global positioning system, radar, and satellite communications, UHF/VHF/HF communications, missile guidance, aircraft avionics (e.g., FMS, INS, ILS, EFIS, TCAS, and IFF), heavy armor systems, rapid solidification, and aerospace alloy development.
Mr. Plies represents plaintiffs and defendants in patent litigation throughout the United States. Recently, he has represented clients in patent disputes involving medical devices (artificial heart valves, annuloplasty rings, and drug eluting coronary stents), video compression (MPEG), error correction algorithms for data storage devices, telephony modems, computer graphics, speech compression, computer I/O busses, IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi, processing and scaling of TV video signals, flexible manufacturing/assembly systems, and Display Data Channel Command Interfaces (DDC/CI) for computer monitors.
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1991
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), M.S., Materials Science, 1993
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 2000, Order of the Coif
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)