Victor C. Johnson, P.C.

Prior to joining Dentons in 2022, Victor amassed significant experience representing clients in intellectual property litigation, including:

• Predictive Profiles Inc.: Successfully defended client in week-long trial of a trademark infringement suit in the Western District of Texas.
• Homebridge: Successfully defended client in a week-long trial of an IP dispute in the Western District of Texas.
• Bose Corp.: Represented client in a patent infringement action in the Northern District of Texas, obtaining a $1.25 million damages award and permanent injunction.
• BMC Software: Represented client in a copyright infringement action in the Southern District of Texas arising from the circumvention of measures intended to control access to copyrighted material. Obtained judicial approval for civil search and seizure and, with US Marshalls, conducted a raid to seize evidence; obtained consent judgment of $1 million and permanent injunction.
• NDE Inc.: Represented client in the Eastern District of Texas in a false advertising and misappropriation of business method case arising from the defendants’ palming off of plaintiff’s works. Obtained $4.7 million jury verdict.
• 3Ci: Represented client in breach of contract and fraud action against another national architectural firm. The jury awarded client compensatory and punitive damages totaling more than $4 million.
• Dallas Basketball Limited: Represented Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks basketball team in class action litigation seeking more than $100 million in damages. Case settled for less than 2 percent of the initial demand.
• Lighthouse Programs LLC: Represented the client as plaintiff in infringement case that resulted in $5.5 million jury award. The verdict was listed in the top 40 jury verdicts of 2009 by Texas Lawyer magazine.
• Yahoo!: Obtained summary judgment for the client as plaintiff in suit alleging that Microsoft and Real Networks’ multimedia applications, when used in combination with Yahoo!’s streaming media services, infringed Yahoo!’s patent.
• Financial institution: Defended bank against infringement claims on several patents in the field of electronic check conversion. Case settled favorably shortly after trial began.
• Alcatel USA Inc.: Obtained a favorable settlement for the client in the Eastern District of Texas by asserting two patents relating to the routing of query messages by a signal transfer point in a telecommunications network.
• Bell & Howell Company Postal Systems Inc.: Obtained an extremely favorable settlement for the client in defense of a patent infringement suit involving mail-sorting technology in the Northern District of Texas.
• Texas Instruments Incorporated: Obtained a favorable settlement for the client in the Eastern District of Texas by asserting three patents relating to computer clock speed control and an intelligent power switch, and defending against three patents relating to parallel processing.

• Co-author “Breaking Point: Court Rules AI Companies Can’t Feed on Copyrighted Content,” Dentons client alert, February 18, 2025
• Co-author, “‘Stone’ Cold Justice: Ninth Circuit Taps Molson Coors for $56 Million in Trademark Battle,” Dentons client alert, January 22, 2025
• Co-author, “Federal Circuit Clarifies Prior Art Status of Published Patent Applications in IPR Proceedings,” Dentons client alert, January 21, 2025
• Co-author, “Major DMCA Reform: Copyright Office Grants Broad Right-to-Repair Exemptions Across Multiple Industries,” Dentons client alert, November 15, 2024
• Co-author, “Federal Circuit Clarifies Approach to Claim Construction on Motions to Dismiss,” Dentons client alert, October 28, 2024
• Co-author, “In LKQ Corp. v. GM, the En Banc Federal Circuit Applies the Graham Factors to Design Patent Obviousness, Explicitly Overruling the Rosen-Durling Test,” Dentons client alert, May 31, 2024
• Co-author, “U.S. Supreme Court Rules Copyright Damages Extend Past The Statute of Limitations, But Refuses To Rule On The ‘Discovery Rule’,” Dentons client alert, May 30, 2024
• Co-author, “Jack Daniels Trademark Has Some Bite,” Dentons client alert, June, 21, 2023
• “udge Albright’s Latest Rules Ensure the WDTXs Place as the New Patent Rocket Docket,” IPWatchdog, November 2020
• “West to Waco,” Intellectual Property Magazine, April 2020

Businesses around the globe value intellectual property and technology services. These services allow maximum efficiency for companies, providing their customers with their own unique services. In perpetual motion, players must create innovative products and services to feed constant and escalating market demand. Everyone from the developer to the user has an enormous amount invested in products. In this high-stakes environment, you need protection for your original work. This requires a partner with extensive knowledge of different solutions who can choose the best legal remedy.

Dentons’ lawyers understand these requirements and work relentlessly to protect your investment, whether it’s a new medical device, company logo or computer software program. Together, we address complex legal questions with advice tailored to your business needs. From protecting intellectual property rights, through advising on data security issues, technology licensing and sourcing strategies, you receive practical and informed guidance.

Our integrated approach to litigation, counseling and transactions is a powerful strategy that delivers optimal results to you. To provide you with seamless service, members of our Intellectual Property and Technology (IP&T) practice frequently team with lawyers from other practice areas. Our enviable track record includes representing individual inventors, artists and entrepreneurs, public institutions, emerging companies, venture capital groups and global corporations.

Protecting your work to the highest caliber drives our efforts to learn about and promote the latest developments in the intellectual property arena. Our IP&T professionals lecture, teach and publish on intellectual property subjects. Additionally, we participate in committees of related organizations.