TMF Lends Helping Hand To Start Intellectual Property Program on College Campus

Warren McCarty and The McCarty Firm are proud to assist in the successful launch of the IP Initiative program, a groundbreaking effort to integrate intellectual property (IP) education into the curriculum at Illinois State University.   This three-year pilot, a collaboration between the Stephen and Sharon Hagge Innovation Institute, the George R. and Martha Means Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Center for Integrated Professional Development, aims to equip students with skills in IP protection, including patents, copyrights, and trademarks, to better prepare them for careers in IP-intensive industries.

Dean Ajay Samant of the College of Business praised McCarty's involvement, saying, “I am incredibly grateful to our alum Mr. Warren McCarty, who is an internationally acclaimed authority on IP Technology Law, for his support to upskill faculty expertise in this critical area.” 

Mr. McCarty's contributions enabled five faculty members—Dr. Hulda Black, Dr. Rosie Hauck, Dr. Valerie Wright, Dr. Ishida-Lambert, and Rose Marshack—to upskill and incorporate IP lessons into diverse courses such as Creative Strategy and Design, and Business Information Systems.

Mr. McCarty reflected on the program's impact, stating, “Helping ISU students understand and appreciate the role IP plays in today’s world has been very rewarding,” and emphasized its value by noting, “I expect the program to be quite valuable for students. The majority of employment opportunities for ISU graduates come from IP-intensive industries.”

Building on this success, the university plans to expand with a second faculty cohort in the 2025-2026 academic year, continuing to foster innovation and IP awareness across campus.

Welcome to The McCarty Firm.

Former Caldwell Cassady Curry partner starts new law firm: The McCarty Firm. The new firm, founded by Warren McCarty, will focus on preparing and trying large, bet-the-company litigations on behalf of existing and new clients.

Warren McCarty has served as trial counsel in technology-related cases resulting in verdicts and settlements of over $2.5 billion since 2015. In just 2024 alone, he tried and won three patent lawsuits as lead counsel or trial counsel, helping clients secure combined verdicts encompassing over $93 million in unpaid royalties. 

Warren is consistently recognized in professional peer rankings for his courtroom skills, including Super Lawyers Rising Stars and The Best Lawyers in America’s “Ones to Watch” based on his work nationwide. Warren’s experience includes federal court litigation across the country in places like California, Delaware, Texas, Oregon, North Carolina, and Arizona, as well as domestic and international arbitrations.

Clients frequently call on Warren to cross-examine key opponent witnesses at trial. Those include technical experts, engineers, Fortune Global 500 corporate representatives, and many others. Bookending his cross-examinations, Warren has repeatedly delivered winning opening statements and closing arguments in his client’s cases to juries, arbitrators, and judges across the nation.

Warren McCarty published by Texas Lawbook regarding IP and NIL in college football.

Read Warren’s recent discussion on the developments in college sports and NIL. Warren’s article discusses a drift away from treating NIL as a set of legal rights freely owned by each student-athlete in favor of a regulated system that may ultimately shortchange NIL value, leaving many current and future college athletes questioning the fate of their financial futures. 

https://texaslawbook.net/ip-lessons-can-help-nil-athletes-protect-millions-under-restrictive-ncaa-fair-market-proposal/

TMF hired to try case against Samsung.

Anonymous Media Research hired The McCarty Firm to help prepare and try its bet-the-company patent trial against Samsung. The case involves claims of patent infringement covering Anonymous Media Research’s automatic content recognition technology. The case is set for trial later this year.