Shannon Bates
PARTNER
Intellectual Property • Patents • Trademarks • Copyrights • Trade Secrets • Oppositions and Cancellations • Domain Name Disputes
Biography
Shannon Bates is an intellectual property attorney who assists clients with strategic intellectual property portfolio management, including protecting and enforcing their inventions, brands, creative works and other forms of intellectual property.
Shannon’s experience includes trademark and patent preparation, prosecution and portfolio management, as well as trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, domain name disputes, patent post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and patent re-examination proceedings.
Shannon’s technical expertise is in the mechanical and electromechanical arts, and her patent experience includes oilfield technologies, mining equipment, consumer products, and computer-related technologies.
Career Details
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- International Trademark Association (INTA) – Co-Chair, LINK Project Team, Leadership Development Committee, 2024-2025
- Co-Founder of the DFW Women in IP Group
- Past President of The Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn American Inn of Court
- Past Chair of the Dallas Bar Association Intellectual Property Section
- Past Chair of the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law Section
- Former Director of the SMU Dedman School of Law Patent Clinic
HONORS
- Recognized as a “Texas Super Lawyer” for Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers Magazine, 2012 – 2025
- Received Award of Excellence from The Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn American Inn of Court, 2024
- Recognized as a “Best Lawyer in Dallas” for Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution by D Magazine, 2023-2025
- Recognized by “Best Lawyers” for IP Litigation, Patent Law and Trademark Law, 2021-2022
- Recognized as a “Best Mentor” by Texas Lawyer Magazine, 2019
- Recognized as an “Elite Boutique Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal, 2018
- Received Chair Award for outstanding service and contributions by the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law Section, 2008
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
- State Bar of Texas
- Registered Patent Attorney, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
EDUCATION
- J.D., cum laude, The University of Houston Law Center, 2000
- Houston Journal of International Law, Senior Articles Editor
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, High Honors, The Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990
PRESENTATIONS
- “Trademark Year in Review,” 54th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, hosted by the Center for American and International Law, November 14-15, 2016
- “PTAB AIA Trial Roundtables – Panel Discussion,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Road Show, hosted by Dallas Bar Association, May 6, 2014
Experience
- Representation of a worldwide luxury travel agency network to register, maintain and enforce U.S. and foreign trademark portfolio of core service marks.
- Representation of a worldwide mining equipment manufacturing company to develop and maintain U.S. and foreign patents on autonomous drilling rigs and related control systems.
- Representation of a computer software company in long-term engagement to develop family of U.S. patents for the business intelligence market.
- Representation of a leading manufacturer of multicultural hair care products in patent protection and enforcement efforts.
- Representation of an oilfield company to develop and maintain U.S. and foreign patents on decarbonization technology.
- Representation of a patent owner in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and ex parte reexaminations before the USPTO, resulting in confirmation of system claims.