Jason D. Cassady
Jason D. Cassady is a trial lawyer who focuses on intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation. He has served as trial counsel or lead trial counsel in multiple federal trials, including courtroom victories in patent cases involving such diverse technologies as secure computer networking, integrated circuits, video game controllers, and computer operating systems.
His track record as trial counsel includes multiple jury awards ranked among the Top 100 Verdicts in the United States. He also has won the largest intellectual property verdict in Texas on multiple occasions.
Jason has represented parties on both sides of the aisle in areas such as drill bit technology, balloon angioplasty catheters, and electronic checking. In his pro bono practice, he has tried and won numerous criminal defense cases alleging assault, resisting arrest, and evading arrest. His track record as trial counsel includes multiple jury awards ranked among the Top 100 Verdicts in the United States. He also has won the largest intellectual property verdict in Texas on multiple occasions.
Court Admissions
Texas State Courts
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
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 Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
J.D., cum laude, 2004.
The University of Texas
B.A., Sociology, 2000
Chambers USA (Intellectual Property – 2023)
Member, Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations
Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America (2023-present)
Texas Verdicts Hall of Fame (2019) – Texas Lawyer newspaper
Best Lawyers in America (2017-present) – Best Lawyers
Texas Super Lawyers (2019-present) – Thomson Reuters
20 Texas Lawyers on the Rise (2016) – Texas Lawyer
Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2008-2018) – Thomson Reuters
Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars Top 100 (2017) – Thomson Reuters
U.S. Firm to Watch (2018) – Managing Intellectual Property magazine
Texas Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year (2017) –Texas Lawyer
#1 U.S. Plaintiffs’ Patent Firm – IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Professionals
Best Law Firms (2017-present) – The Best Lawyers in America/U.S. News & World Report
Best Lawyers in Dallas (2016-) – D Magazine
Top 100 U.S. Verdicts of 2016 (3 verdicts) – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
#1 Texas Intellectual Property Verdict (2016) – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
Top 50 Recoveries (2015-2016) – The National Law Journal
Top Patent Damage Awards Won Since 2000 (2015) – Law360
Top 100 U.S. Verdicts of 2015 – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
#1 Texas Intellectual Property Verdict (2015) – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
Brad Caldwell is a trial lawyer who focuses on patent infringement and complex commercial litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. His courtroom success before judges, juries, and arbitration panels includes cases involving digital media, telecommunications and computer networking, data security, computer imaging, medical devices, enterprise software, banking technology, and oilfield services.
He has been named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer magazine two different times based on record-setting patent infringement verdicts against Apple Inc. Those jury awards of $625.6 million and $302 million were ranked as the 6th and 9th largest verdicts in the nation during 2016. The year prior, Caldwell helped Smartflash LLC win a $532.9 million verdict against Apple that was the year’s top Texas verdict and the largest intellectual property verdict in the U.S., ranking third nationwide overall.
Before starting his legal career, Caldwell worked for a year as an electrical engineer at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, where he obtained a top-secret security clearance and was awarded multiple merit-based citations.
In addition to earning a spot in The Best Lawyers in America since 2016, Mr. Caldwell has been named one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America since 2014. He also has earned selection to the annual Texas Super Lawyers list since 2015, including being named in 2019 as one of the Top 100 attorneys in Dallas/Fort Worth, and the affiliated Texas Rising Stars list (2006-2009, 2011-2015) based on his work in patent cases. His role in helping a client win a $250 million patent verdict was featured in a 2009 profile article published by Super Lawyers magazine. In 2012, Mr. Caldwell was named a leading U.S. patent litigator by the publishers of The Legal 500, and he previously was honored by D Magazine in its annual listing of the Best Lawyers in Dallas Under 40.
Mr. Caldwell is licensed to practice before all Texas and New York state courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Prior to the formation of Caldwell Cassady & Curry, Mr. Caldwell was a principal at McKool Smith. At the University of Texas School of Law, he received the Dean’s Achievement Award in Patent Litigation. Before attending law school, Mr. Caldwell earned a degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. He now serves as a member of the electrical engineering department’s External Advisory & Development Council. During an externship from Texas A&M, Mr. Caldwell worked for a year as an electrical engineer at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, where he obtained a top-secret security clearance and was awarded multiple merit-based citations.
Firm Honors
- Texas Verdicts Hall of Fame (2019) – Texas Lawyer newspaper
- U.S. Firm to Watch (2018) – Managing Intellectual Property magazine
- Texas Intellectual Property Litigation Department of the Year (2017) – Texas Lawyer
- #1 U.S. Plaintiffs’ Patent Firm – IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Professionals
- Top 100 U.S. Verdicts of 2016 (3 verdicts) – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
- #1 Texas Intellectual Property Verdict (2016) – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
- Top 50 Recoveries (2015-2016) – The National Law Journal
- Best Law Firms (2017) – The Best Lawyers in America/U.S. News & World Report
- Top Patent Damage Awards Won Since 2000 (2015) – Law360
- Top 100 U.S. Verdicts of 2015 – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch
- #1 Texas Intellectual Property Verdict (2015) – The National Law Journal/VerdictSearch