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Maria Wyckoff Boyce
Partner
Litigation
One Shell Plaza
910 Louisiana Street
Houston, Texas 77002-4995
United States of America
Phone: 713.229.1922
Fax: 713.229.2722
Education and Honors
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1988
Editor in Chief, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

B.A. (cum laude), government, Connecticut College, 1985

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2005 - present

Named by Law & Politics as a "Texas Super Lawyer," 2005 - 2009

Admissions and Affiliations

State Bar of Texas

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

United States District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and the District of Colorado

United States Supreme Court

Alley Theatre, Board of Directors

Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston, Advisory Board

Bishop Quin Foundation, Board of Trustees

Federal Bar Association, Southern District of Texas Chapter, President, 2006

Leadership Texas, Class of 2005

American Intellectual Property Law Association

International Association of Defense Counsel
Practice Areas

Concentration

Civil trial law, focusing on commercial and intellectual property litigation

Summary

Maria Wyckoff Boyce is partner in charge of the Houston office of Baker Botts and is a senior partner in the litigation department. She tries lawsuits in state and federal courts involving complex commercial disputes. Ms. Boyce also has extensive experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property litigation, including numerous patent infringement and trade secret lawsuits. She recently tried a patent infringement case for a major computer company to a Delaware federal court jury and a commercial fraud case for a major software company to a Texas state court jury. Ms. Boyce also handles appeals in state and federal appellate courts. Her work has resulted in dozens of published opinions.

Ms. Boyce is married to Justice Bill Boyce of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, Houston.

Representative Engagements

  • Sybase Inc. – jury verdict involving multimillion-dollar commercial fraud claims
  • Reliant Energy, Inc. – lawsuits and jury verdicts involving commercial, trade secrets misappropriation, and securities and ERISA class action claims
  • CenterPoint Energy – multiple jury verdicts involving commercial and personal injury claims
  • Dell Inc. – patent infringement trial in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
  • BASF – lawsuits and jury verdicts involving commercial and employment claims
  • Halliburton Company – lawsuits involving patent infringement and commercial claims
  • Fair Isaac Corporation – lawsuit involving commercial fraud claims
  • Leading pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer – prosecution of several multimillion-dollar patent infringement lawsuits filed in the Northern District of California
  • Leading pharmaceutical manufacturer – co-national counsel for litigation involving a major pharmaceutical product

Publications, Speeches and Presentations

Publications

  • "Navigating Hypothetical Negotiations," Managing Intellectual Property, October 2008
  • Product Liability Desk Reference: A Fifty-State Compendium, Aspen Publishers, Inc., New York, 2008
  • "Custom Software Development Contracts: Litigation Issues and Best Practices for Contracting," Corporate Counsel Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, November 2005

Speeches and Presentations

  • "What Every Trial Judge Needs to Know About Mandamus," Harris County Judicial Education Conference, San Antonio, August 2006
  • "Ruling on Evidence in a High-Tech World," National Association of Women Judges Annual Conference, Houston, October 2005
  • "Summing Up Summary Judgments," Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, Houston, February 2005
  • "Jury Trial Innovations," Advanced Civil Trial Law Conference, Houston, February 2004