Bonnie Phan

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Bonnie Phan — patent litigation summary

Focus areas. Ms. Phan's single tracked patent matter involves internet/software technology: the asserted patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,965,920 ("Profile Responsive Electronic Message Management System"), claims a system for centrally managing how electronic messages from multiple senders/messengers are filtered and delivered based on recipient-profile preferences. The accused products were email and email-marketing platforms. Public sources do not yield a firm bio page or other practice description for a Quinn Emanuel attorney by this name, so no broader technology-area profile (e.g., wireless standards, pharma, mechanical) can be confirmed from the record.

Side preference. Her tracked record is defense-side only (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant). She appeared for the defendant operating company, Google LLC, in Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Google LLC, No. 6:21-cv-01152 (W.D. Tex., Judge Alan D. Albright), where the court granted her motion to appear pro hac vice for Google on January 25, 2022. She was on a Quinn Emanuel defense team that also included James S. Blackburn, Michael A. Berta and Nicholas H. Lee, working with local counsel. There is no tracked record of her representing patent owners or NPEs/PAEs.

Case context. The Pedersen matter was part of a single-patent campaign by individual inventor Peter Henrik Pedersen (associated with AiPi Solutions) asserting the '920 patent against numerous email and marketing platforms, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Adobe, Salesforce and Zoho. The patent was ultimately invalidated: the PTAB held all challenged claims (1, 14–17) unpatentable in Unified Patents, LLC v. Peter Henrik Pedersen, IPR2023-00029 (final written decision May 10, 2024), and the Federal Circuit affirmed in a nonprecedential opinion on March 26, 2026. Those proceedings were Unified Patents' own IPR (argued by Haynes and Boone and Unified in-house counsel); Ms. Phan is not listed as counsel in them, and the searchable record does not identify a separate Google-filed IPR by her. No disposition in the district court case itself was verified.

PTAB / IPR. No IPR or PGR appearances by Ms. Phan were found in the sources reviewed, so no regular PTAB practice can be attributed to her.

Bar and education. Not reliably sourced for this attorney. A California-licensed Bonnie Phan (State Bar No. 305574, admitted 2015; UCLA School of Law J.D. 2015; Santa Clara University B.S./B.A. 2012) appears in public records as a former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer IP litigation associate in Palo Alto and later in a government counsel role. Whether that individual is the same person as the Quinn Emanuel attorney in the Pedersen matter is not confirmed by any source located, so those credentials should not be attributed to her without further verification.