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Matthew Douglas Powers is an Active member of the State Bar of California (State Bar of California #104795). Verify the current individual Bar record at apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/104795 before hiring an attorney.

Matt Powers is a founding partner and Co-Managing Partner of Tensegrity Law Group LLP in Redwood Shores. He was previously a managing partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He is a trial lawyer for patent, trade secret, fraud, fiduciary duty, antitrust and contract cases, and has tried patent cases in every major patent venue, including US district courts nationwide and the International Trade Commission, with an appellate practice at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His technologies span biotechnology and medical devices; computer hardware and software; operating systems and databases; networking; semiconductors, including devices, processing and packaging; mobile phones and other consumer electronics; mobile commerce; and Wi-Fi and location services. He has led trial teams winning billion-dollar cases and is often brought in to replace another firm’s litigation team for trial on very short notice. He is a frequent lecturer nationally and internationally on intellectual property litigation, including at the Sedona Conference and the Naples Roundtable of the Leahy Institute of Advanced Patent Studies, and sits on the Board of Directors of Seneca Therapeutics. His admissions include California (1982), the US Supreme Court, the US Courts of Appeals for the Federal, Second and Ninth Circuits, and the US District Courts for the Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the Northern District of Indiana, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the Western District of Wisconsin. He earned his J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1982 and attended Northwestern University in 1979. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers. He has been recognized in Super Lawyers for 21 consecutive years (2025), including as one of Northern California’s top ten lawyers; in Best Lawyers every year since 2006 for patent litigation, patent law and commercial litigation; in the Chambers Global Guide 2019 and 2020 and the Chambers USA Guide 2019–2025, as a Chambers USA “Star Performer”; and by Managing IP as a “Patent Star” in California and the US and as “Outstanding IP Practitioner of the Year” in 2010.

Matters this legal field covers

Patent legal work may cover patent litigation, trade secrets, fraud, fiduciary duty, antitrust and contract disputes, with appellate practice at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

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