Sandeep Seth

Sandeep Seth has been representing plaintiffs in resolving their intellectual property disputes with third-parties since 1992. He has an outstanding record of obtaining client goals whether they be licensing out the technology or stopping the infringement. Sandy has also been successful representing defendants accused of violating intellectual property rights. He is also an Aerospace Engineer and a Registered Patent Attorney.

Prior to joining Susman Godfrey, Mr. Seth had extensive experience both in private practice and as in-house patent infringement counsel. He is a member of the Texas, California and Colorado bars and is registered to practice before the Patent & Trademark Office, various Federal District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has represented parties nationwide in the enforcement and defense of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Mr. Seth has successfully litigated against and settled complex multi-million dollar infringement disputes Fortune 500 companies, and now works exclusively on Susman Godfrey's patent infringement cases.

Mr. Seth has built his reputation particularly in representing clients in asymmetric infringement disputes in which he has had to garner the resources of his clients against parties with much greater resources. In a recent series of cases, he has successfully represented the interests of small companies with innovative patented products against various large national retailers, having the retailers pay for their past infringement and agree to cease infringing sales. In another series of cases, he represented as lead counsel the interest of a small research and development company in the plastics industry against multi-national giants in the automotive and cassette industries leading to a series of multi-million dollar licensing agreements. Mr. Seth recently tried a copyright infringement case involving western jewelry in which he secured an award of statutory damages and injunction on behalf of his client. He has also recently secured licensing arrangements with major nationally recognized power tool manufacturers on behalf of two of his clients, resolving one of these disputes without any litigation.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Seth attended the University of Texas at Austin where he obtained a Bachelors of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. He then joined Martin Marietta Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) where he was a space flight hardware and software test engineer. He conducted functional component and satellite level testing of the infra red and ultraviolet detectors that were the chief component of the Faint Object Spectrograph that flew aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. He also conducted orbital simulations to verify the flight control software for the Inertial Upper Stage orbital transfer platform.

University of Texas, Austin (B.S. 1985)
University of Houston Law Center (J.D. 1991)

• State Bar of Texas
• State Bar of California
• State Bar of Colorado
• United States Patent & Trademark Office
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Western District of Texas
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals