Anthony J. Magee | Partner
amagee@ghjhlaw.com

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1445 Ross Avenue
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Dallas, TX 75202

Overview

Anthony Magee is an Oxford-educated, former English barrister, who has practiced law in Dallas for the past fifteen years.  Prior to that, Anthony practiced for nine years at the Chancery Bar in London.  Anthony specializes in the practice of intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation on both the plaintiff and defense sides.  Anthony's experience includes patent litigation in many technological areas, including telecommunications, 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.  Anthony 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 commercial mortgage-backed securities and auction rate securities.

 

Representative Experience

  • 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 suit 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, one of the world's largest information technology outsourcing companies, in several major contract disputes, including EDS v. Xerox, a contract dispute over Xerox's attempt to concel 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, which resulted 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 / Civic Affiliations

Professional

  • Dallas Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Texas Bar Foundation Fellow
  • Master of the William "Mac" Taylor American Inn of Court, Executive Committee (2005 to date)
  • The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, U.K., Hardwicke Scholar

 Community

  • Trustee St. Alcuin Montessori School (2005 to date)
  • Assistant Scout Master, BSA Circle Ten Troup 730

 

 

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Practices
Intellectual Property Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Education
M.A. Oxford University, U.K. (1984)


B.A. (Hons) Jurisprudence, Oxford University, U.K. (1980)


AV rated Martindale-Hubbell

Admitted to Practice
State Bar of Texas 1993

U.S. District Courts for Northern and Eastern Districts of Texas

Bar of England and Wales (1984-1993)
Years In Practice
17

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