Anthony J. Magee

Tony Magee is an Oxford-educated, former English barrister, who has practiced law in Dallas since 1993. Before that, he practiced for nine years at the Chancery Bar in London. Tony focuses on the practice of intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation on both the plaintiff and defense sides. His experience includes patent infringement litigation in many technological areas, including telecommunications, including the field of inmate telephone systems, medical devices, satellite radio, cable modems, semiconductor manufacture, email-to-fax technology, automated document processing technology, standardized markup language editing, and healthcare management systems, and trademark infringement litigation, theft of trade secrets, and software licensing disputes. Tony has worked extensively in complex litigation and arbitrations relating to large-scale information technology outsourcing contracts and many other types of business disputes, including contractual and trade secrecy disputes relating to professional sports teams and litigation relating to real estate, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and auction rate securities.

• Represents Securus Technologies, Inc. in patent infringement suits relating to inmate telecommunications technologies
• Represented Jones Lang LaSalle in disputes relating to real estate management contracts
• Represents Business Resources Corporation in suit against Dallas County for violation of statutory competitive bidding requirements in awarding $17.5 million government contract
• Represented The Snoring Center in false advertising, trade secrecy and business disparagement suit against California-based medical practice.
• Represented cardio-vascular surgeon and inventor Paul Teirstein in patent infringement suit relating to vascular occlusion device
• Represented Rembrandt Technologies, Inc. in several patent infringement suits against cable television companies relating to cable modem technology
• Represented Toronto-based Infrastructures For Information, Inc. in patent infringement suits brought against Microsoft Corp. relating to standardized markup language technology
• Represented American Video Graphics, LP in numerous patent infringement suits against video game manufacturers, computer manufacturers, and Microsoft Corporation related to 3-D panning graphics technology
• Represented Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in a patent infringement suit regarding the manufacture of semiconductor chips
• Represented Electronic Data Corporation in several major contract disputes, including EDS v. Xerox, a contract dispute over Xerox's attempt to cancel several hundred million dollars in services, and EDS v. WorldCom, a multibillion dollar arbitration with WorldCom concerning the impact of the burst of the telecommunication bubble on the parties' ongoing contractual relationship
• Represented the Dallas Stars in a lawsuit involving their contractual relations with an American Hockey League team resulting in summary judgment entered for the Dallas Stars; represented Southwest Sports Group in a trade secrecy lawsuit relating to the establishment of the Frisco Roughriders baseball team
• Represented ORIX Capital Markets in suits brought against Salomon Brothers Realty Corp, UBS Paine Webber, and Lehman Brothers relating to commercial mortgage-backed securities

Professional

• Dallas Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
• Master, Counselor of the William "Mac" Taylor American Inn of Court
• The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, U.K., Hardwicke Scholar
• American Inns of Court Pegasus Scholarship Committee

Community

• Trustee St. Alcuin Montessori School (2005 - 2011)
• Assistant Scout Master, BSA Circle Ten Troop 730, St. Mark's School of Texas

Honors and Awards

• Best Lawyers in America, Patent Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation - 2012