Taylor Mauze is a litigator and trial attorney at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP. She is experienced at handling all phases of complex business disputes, including written discovery and document production, motions practice and hearings, working with expert witnesses, dispositive motion briefing, and trial practice. She also has extensive experience litigating and trying patent cases, including claim construction briefing, Markman hearings, and invalidity and infringement contentions. Recognized as a Rising Star by Texas Lawyer, the award underscores her impressive journey spanning her electrical engineering roots to working as a clerk for the nation’s busiest patent judge, all the way to helping secure multimillion-dollar jury verdicts for clients.

Taylor joined the firm after serving as a judicial clerk in the chambers of Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Prior to her clerkship, she was an intellectual property disputes associate at a global law firm.

In addition to her intellectual property litigation experience in federal court, Taylor has worked on cases in state court and personally tried a half dozen jury trials to verdict while acting as a prosecutor through the Attorney Loan Program with the City of Austin.

During law school, Taylor served as a judicial intern in the chambers of the Honorable Lee Yeakel in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and was a summer staffer on the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal.

Representative Matters

• Helped secure an $84 million willful patent infringement verdict on behalf of Cirba against VMware, following a five-day jury trial in the District of Delaware. The win earned The AmLaw Litigation Daily’s Shout Out.

• Represented Droplets in securing a $15 million patent infringement verdict against tech giant Yahoo following a three-week jury trial in the Northern District of California, including win of post-trial motions for a total award of $27 million for client Droplets against Yahoo.

• Represented Arconic in a two-and-a-half-week trial in the Northern District of Georgia over allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets used to manufacture airplane wing components.   

Taylor has also helped litigate patent infringement cases for plaintiffs and defendants, including representations of: Wenger S.A. in the Western District of Texas, defending allegations of patent infringement relating to backpacks with USB charging capabilities; VideoLabs in courts across the country, enforcing a portfolio of patents that covers foundational video technologies in bet-the-company litigation; Kove IO in the Northern District of Illinois, in a multi-hundred-million-dollar patent litigation against Amazon Web Services relating to fundamental technology underlying distributed cloud storage.

Community & Pro Bono Activities

Taylor has also worked as pro bono counsel, including being honored with the Pro Bono All Star award at her previous law firm. In her pro bono work, she has successfully secured asylum for a refugee based on their sexual orientation; prepared and tried a residential sublease case; and helped a small business founder incorporate in the State of Texas.