Wade Witcher

Wade Witcher is an associate in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group in Haynes Boone's Dallas office. A registered patent attorney with a background in chemical engineering, Wade focuses his practice on intellectual property disputes involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.

Before joining Haynes Boone, Wade served as a judicial clerk to Judge J. Campbell Barker of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In that role, he drafted research memoranda for matters before the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Delaware, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Wade previously worked as an intellectual property summer associate at Haynes Boone and another international law firm. During those roles, he drafted memoranda addressing patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets litigation, prepared responses for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office administrative matters, and conducted due diligence involving novel technologies.

Wade earned his J.D., with honors, from The University of Texas School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal and president of the Intellectual Property Law Society. He received his B.S., summa cum laude, in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, where he was a W.W. Allen Scholar—one of the top two engineering students in his graduating class.