Charles P. Goodwin

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Summary — Charles P. Goodwin (ND Galli Law LLC, Philadelphia)

Charles P. Goodwin is an Of Counsel attorney at ND Galli Law LLC, a small Philadelphia shop whose practice he describes as commercial litigation in federal and state courts, with an intellectual property and trade secret component alongside contract, antitrust, class action, securities, franchise and legal malpractice work. His patent-facing docket is narrow and concentrated in consumer mobile-device software: both tracked matters arise from Local Intelligence, LLC's assertion of a family of patents (U.S. 8,903,067; 9,084,084; 9,219,982) covering automatic refresh of a telephone display based on user location and behavior, asserted against smartphone makers. Nothing in the available record shows pharma, mechanical, or standards-essential/Wi-Fi SEP work, and the patents at issue are software/UI claims rather than wireless-standard claims.

Side preference. In the tracked patent matters he is exclusively plaintiff-side (2 plaintiff, 0 defendant), acting for Local Intelligence, a Monument Patent Holdings entity that is an NPE/patent-assertion vehicle. That said, this is a small sample and not a reliable indicator of a full-time NPE practice: his longer-running commercial docket includes defense-side work (e.g., representation of defendants in Elmagin Capital, LLC v. Chen, an E.D. Pa. statutory/trade-secret matter), and he is better characterized as a general complex-commercial litigator who has carried patent-assertion matters for a contingency-fee plaintiff.

Firm context. He is currently Of Counsel at ND Galli Law (One Liberty Place, Philadelphia), working with managing member Nicole D. Galli. His ND Galli bio states that he spent over twenty years at a "nationally recognized complex litigation boutique" in Philadelphia, the last ten as partner, before opening the Law Offices of Charles P. Goodwin in 2014. His bio does not name that prior firm; docket filings in E.D. Pa. list him at a Berger & Montague, P.C. address, which is consistent with (but not an explicit confirmation of) that firm being the boutique in question.

Notable matters and results. The most prominent tracked case is Local Intelligence, LLC v. HTC America, Inc., No. 5:17-cv-06437 (N.D. Cal.), where Judge Davila denied HTC's § 101 motion to dismiss on April 6, 2018, holding the display-refresh claims were not directed to an abstract idea and relying on Core Wireless; the case closed in September 2018, apparently on settlement. In Local Intelligence, LLC v. LG Electronics, No. 1:18-cv-00271 (D. Del.), he appeared pro hac vice alongside Galli for the plaintiff, which voluntarily dismissed the case in September 2018 after a series of answer extensions. No verdicts or appellate decisions attributable to him were found.

PTAB / IPR. No confirmed PTAB appearances (IPR, PGR, or CBM) were located for this attorney; his identifiable patent work appears to be district-court litigation rather than post-grant practice, though this conclusion rests on limited public data.

Bar / education. Admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, plus the Second, Third and Seventh Circuits and the district courts of E.D. Pa., D.N.J. and E.D. Mich.; J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1992 (cum laude, Law Review); B.A., Williams College, 1987. Note: searches return an unrelated IP practitioner of similar name in China; the above is drawn from ND Galli's own bio and the Philadelphia docket record.