Gerald “Jerry” Fellows: The Dallas Patent Attorney Whose Practice Runs Toward AI, Blockchain, and the Metaverse

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At a Glance

Origin & Founder History

Jerry Fellows earned his J.D. from Marquette University Law School in 1992 and was admitted to the bar the same year, building a patent practice that now spans more than three decades. He currently practices from Greenberg Traurig’s Dallas office, part of the firm’s international, more than 3,100-attorney platform, after prior experience that shaped a practice notably weighted toward frontier and emerging technologies.

Practice Concentration

Fellows’s practice centers on clearing, acquiring, and enforcing United States and foreign patent rights, with a distinctive concentration in enterprise and process software, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and metaverse-related innovations — a notably forward-looking technology mix relative to many Dallas patent practices still weighted toward traditional mechanical and electrical fields. He also has experience patenting biomedical technologies including medical, dental, and cardiac laser systems and their graphical user interfaces, alternative energy innovations, and material science innovations including superconducting materials and electromagnetic containment systems.

Track Record

Fellows has formed consortia and led license and settlement negotiations to secure large discounts from patent owners on an ongoing basis for clients, according to his professional biography; the firm’s materials note that certain of these representations were handled prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig. Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify specific settlement figures, and attributes these claims to the firm’s own biography as such.

Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not locate a substantial base of independent consumer reviews for Fellows’s practice, consistent with a patent prosecution and portfolio practice serving corporate and technology clients rather than individual consumers.

Beyond the Courtroom

Fellows was selected to Texas Super Lawyers for six consecutive years, 2013 through 2018, a peer-nominated and independently researched recognition. Awesome Attorneys did not locate specific bar-leadership or civic-board roles to report for Fellows beyond his sustained professional recognition record.

Recognition

Fellows’s inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and his multi-year Texas Super Lawyers selection are genuine peer-review credentials. Awesome Attorneys did not locate a Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for Fellows, and no “specialist” language is used in this profile as a result.

Texas Legal Backdrop

Patents for emerging technologies like blockchain and AI systems face particular scrutiny under the U.S. Supreme Court’s Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank framework for patent-eligible subject matter, which has made software and business-method patents in these categories more difficult to obtain and defend than traditional mechanical inventions — a consideration directly relevant to Fellows’s practice mix. As with all patent matters, USPTO proceedings and federal patent litigation apply uniformly regardless of state; Texas-specific law plays a limited role beyond venue selection. None of this is legal advice; companies developing AI, blockchain, or metaverse technology should consult patent counsel early given the heightened subject-matter-eligibility risk in these categories.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

Fellows’s genuine differentiator is a patent practice unusually well-positioned for frontier technology — AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and metaverse patent work is a comparatively rare specialization among Dallas patent attorneys, most of whom concentrate on more traditional mechanical, electrical, or software categories. The honest trade-off is that patents in these emerging-technology categories face a genuinely higher and less settled legal standard for patent-eligible subject matter than traditional inventions, a reality that affects outcomes regardless of attorney skill and that clients in this space should understand going in.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from Greenberg Traurig’s public attorney biography for Gerald L. Fellows, Best Lawyers’ published recognition listing, and Super Lawyers’ published multi-year selection archive.

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