Mark Tidwell is a partner at Haynes Boone in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Houston office. His practice focuses on the prosecution, acquisition, licensing, divestiture, and enforcement of patent rights, as well as trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters. He has filed and prosecuted hundreds of patent, trademark, and copyright applications and is recognized in Intellectual Asset Magazine’s (IAM) Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners for patent prosecution and intellectual property transaction work. He also serves as a guest lecturer on intellectual property at the Texas A&M Mays School of Business. He often works with cross-border companies to develop an intellectual property strategy as they engage with the U.S. market.

Mark has experience across a broad range of technologies relevant to global energy, industrial, and emerging technology markets, including oil field exploration and production tools, new energy technology, alternative fuels, energy storage, power generation systems, electromobility and vehicle electrification, engines, medical and biomedical devices, nanotechnology, data communications, heat transfer equipment, computer software and business methods, agricultural equipment, sports, safety and security, food preparation, ultrasound, and seismic equipment, ornamental designs, and other mechanical, electro-mechanical, and chemical-mechanical devices.

Before entering private practice, Mark worked as a research and development engineer in Houston designing downhole oil field tools for Western Atlas International. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University in addition to his law degree.