Over two decades, Houston lawyer Sandeep “Sandy” Seth said, there’s been an “incredible acceleration of the volume of patent litigation,” and more firms are moving into the intellectual property litigation arena. But along with that, Seth said, there is a continuing “incredible inefficiency” in patent litigation because of the cost of hiring technical experts to do groundwork.

Seeing opportunity, Seth left Susman Godfrey, where he was of counsel in Houston, to become director of U.S. operations at LexInnova.