Matthew Powers

Matt Powers is known for taking tough cases to trial and winning them. He tries patent, trade secret, fraud, fiduciary duty, antitrust, and contract cases. He has tried patent cases in every major patent venue, including U.S. district courts all over the country and the ITC, as well as maintaining a successful appellate practice at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. His litigation experience spans a wide variety of technologies, including biotechnology and medical devices; computer hardware and software; operating systems and databases; networking; semiconductor devices, processing, and packaging; mobile phones and other consumer electronics; mobile commerce; Wi-Fi and location services. Many of the world’s leading companies have called on him to lead trial teams in difficult cases, and he is often called on to replace another firm’s litigation team for trial on very short notice. He has led teams winning billion-dollar cases for many of the leading companies in the world.

Mr. Powers is one the founding partners of the Tensegrity Law Group LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in patent litigation trials, and appellate and counseling matters. Many of the patent cases handled by Tensegrity are further complicated by antitrust, contract, trade secret, or other issues. Prior to forming Tensegrity, Mr. Powers was a managing partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Mr. Powers is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the International Society of Barristers. In 2025, Mr. Powers received his 21st consecutive recognition by Super Lawyers, which previously identified him as one of Northern California’s top ten lawyers. He has been recognized in BestLawyers every year since 2006 for patent litigation, patent law, and commercial litigation. He was recognized in the Chambers Global Guide in 2019 and 2020 and the Chambers USA Guide from 2019-2025. He has also been recognized by Chambers USA as a “Star Performer” and in Managing IP as a “Patent Star” in California and the US. Managing IP magazine named him “Outstanding IP Practitioner of the Year” in 2010. In 2010, commentators in Chambers USA 2010 noted that he is “universally recognized as a star in the field” because of “his impressive trial work.” He was singled out by Chambers USA 2as “king of the jungle…a master trial litigator and a genius when it comes to patents… fantastically clever and exceptionally talented.” His peers have recognized him as “a superior strategist” who “can parachute into a case and in very short order assimilate a massive number of technically abstruse facts, identify the strengths and weakness of each side’s positions, and then boil complex matters down to crystallized themes easily grasped even by lay juries.” Mr. Powers is one of America’s Top 100 Bet-the-Company Litigators.

Mr. Powers is a frequent lecturer nationally and internationally on intellectual property litigation issues, including at The Sedona Conference and the Naples Roundtable of the Leahy Institute of Advanced Patent Studies.