Amisha Manek

Amisha Manek — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Amisha Manek is a patent litigator whose tracked docket is entirely defense-side: she has appeared as lead counsel for defendants in both of her recorded matters, with no plaintiff-side appearances. Public dockets confirm a consistent pattern of representing large operating companies against non-practicing-entity plaintiffs — Amazon in Flexiworld Technologies v. Amazon.com, Twitter in Voip-Pal.com v. Twitter, Hulu in Uniloc 2017 v. Hulu, and Ralph Lauren in Lexos Media IP v. Ralph Lauren. Her matters center on software-implemented technologies: Flexiworld's asserted patents covered wireless data transmission, printing, audio/video delivery, voice commands, and touch controls; her PTAB work involved gaming-system and user-interface (cursor display) software.

Manek built her practice at Perkins Coie LLP in Palo Alto, where she litigated district court cases and served as back-up counsel on PTAB challenges. Notably, her State Bar of California record now lists her address at Zoom Video Communications, Inc. in San Jose, suggesting a move in-house; the case-level data reflects her Perkins Coie tenure, and I found no current law-firm bio to confirm a private-practice affiliation. Her filings describe experience across invalidity contentions, discovery, Markman hearings, district court, and the Federal Circuit.

Her most prominent tracked matter is Flexiworld Technologies v. Amazon.com (originally W.D. Tex. 6:20-cv-00553, transferred to W.D. Wash. 2:21-cv-01055), in which Amazon faced 91 asserted claims across 10 patents and Manek supported Amazon's venue-transfer motion and claim-construction efforts; the case advanced through a March 2024 claim-construction order, but I could not verify a final merits outcome. In PTAB practice, she was admitted pro hac vice as back-up counsel in CBM2018-00005 and CBM2018-00006 (Bally Gaming v. New Vision Gaming) and IPR2018-01749 (Ralph Lauren as petitioner) — all petitioner-side challenges to asserted patents, consistent with her defense-oriented practice.

Bar/Education: UCLA School of Law; admitted to the California State Bar in 2015 (No. 305163).