Andrew H. DeVoogd

I'll research this attorney's background and verify the tracked case.

Let me verify his current role, the Netlist matter outcome, and his ITC/PTAB track record.

Professional Summary: Andrew H. ("Drew") DeVoogd

Specialty / focus areas. DeVoogd is a patent and trade secret litigator whose practice centers on Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission, with a secondary emphasis on federal district court patent litigation and IP licensing/transactions. Published practice descriptions list experience across memory systems and controllers (including DDR4-compliant memory modules and their components), embedded microprocessors, graphics processors and displays, telecommunications systems and infrastructure, mobile communications, video compression, converged devices and related software/OS, LED lighting, thermoplastics, electrical motors, voice recognition, and biochemical assays. His work includes standard-essential patent (SEP) and RAND/FRAND issues, patent pools, and multiparty portfolios. He also has a trademark/design-patent and trade dress component to his practice.

Side preference. The tracked dataset contains a single appearance, on the plaintiff side (Netlist as complainant), which is consistent with the patent-owner-oriented ITC work described in his firm bios. Web-searchable experience shows representation of both complainants and respondents — e.g., defending a beverage supplier against design patent and trade dress claims in The Coca-Cola Co. v. Johanna Foods, Inc. (N.D. Ga.) — so the "plaintiff only" count likely reflects limited tracking rather than a one-sided practice. His current in-house role at a licensing-focused SEP holder (see below) further aligns him with patent-owner interests.

Firm context. He spent roughly a dozen-plus years at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C. in Boston, where he became a Member/partner and served as hiring partner for the firm's IP Section. Prior to Mintz, he practiced at a national law firm and clerked for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Barbara A. Lenk (then of the Massachusetts Appeals Court). He is now listed as Senior Director, Litigation / Associate General Counsel at InterDigital, the wireless/SEP licensing company; Northeastern University School of Law lists him as an adjunct teaching IP survey and patent law. (Note the discrepancy: the tracked case data shows Mintz as his firm, but public sources indicate he has since moved in-house to InterDigital.)

Notable cases and outcomes. The tracked matter is Netlist Inc. v. SK hynix — the ITC investigation Certain Memory Modules and Components Thereof, Inv. No. 337-TA-1089 (DDR4 RDIMM/LRDIMM memory modules alleged essential to JEDEC standards), with parallel Western District of Texas cases (Nos. 6:20-cv-00194-ADA and 6:20-cv-00525-ADA) and a co-pending Central District of California action. In October 2019, the ALJ issued an initial determination finding infringement of the '907 patent and recommending an exclusion order; in April 2020 the Commission reversed, found no violation of Section 337 on claim-construction and domestic-industry grounds, declined to reach the SEP/RAND remedy question, and terminated the investigation. Trade-press reporting (a Korean-language IT industry outlet) indicates Netlist later abandoned its appeal of that ruling; I could not confirm that from a U.S. court or agency source, so treat it as unverified. Other ITC matters listed for him include Inv. No. 337-TA-925 (communications/computing patents against Apple, Samsung, LG and HTC, with Google intervening; resolved before the evidentiary hearing) and Inv. No. 337-TA-726 (electronic imaging devices; favorable licenses with three of four respondents).

PTAB / IPR experience. He appears in PTAB proceedings on a pro hac vice basis rather than as a registered practitioner — for example, in SK hynix Inc. v. Netlist, Inc., IPR2020-01042 (U.S. Patent No. 10,474,595), where he was admitted pro hac vice working under registered lead counsel William Meunier of Mintz. His pro hac vice filings state he had not applied to appear before the Office in the prior three years, suggesting episodic rather than routine PTAB practice.

Bar / education. Member, Massachusetts Bar (No. 670203); admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal and First Circuits, the District of Massachusetts, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas. Earlham College, B.A. 1999; Northeastern University School of Law, J.D. 2007.