Chisom I. Nwakama

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Chisom I. Nwakama — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Note on the record: The tracked case list contains a single entry, recorded generically as "Untitled case" (defendant side, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, role: counsel). Because the entry is unnamed, the case identification below is drawn from public dockets and firm materials rather than from the structured list itself.

Focus areas and side preference. Ms. Nwakama's tracked practice is entirely defense-side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant appearances), which is consistent with her documented role representing a bank accused of infringement. Her identified technology exposure is in financial-services software — specifically mobile remote deposit capture (smartphone check deposit) — through Regions Bank's defense of United Services Automobile Association v. Regions Financial Corp., No. 2:25-cv-00082 (E.D. Tex.). Her WilmerHale profile describes a practice in complex intellectual property matters with a specific focus on patents, and lists intellectual property counseling and prosecution as a practice area; her technical background is in chemistry and the life sciences rather than electrical engineering or standards-based technologies such as Wi-Fi.

Firm context. She is at WilmerHale's Boston office (60 State Street), where she joined as a summer associate in 2023 and now practices as an associate. No prior law-firm patent litigation history appears in the sources reviewed; her pre-law and law-school experience was in patent prosecution and IP counseling (an IP internship at a large New Jersey pharmaceutical company, the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, and externships at the Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania). She is not in-house.

Notable matters and PTAB/IPR experience. USAA v. Regions is her most prominent tracked matter: USAA asserted mobile check deposit patents against Regions Bank, and Regions counterclaimed on its own mobile banking patents. Regions, represented by a WilmerHale team including Ms. Nwakama, argued the asserted patents were invalid under § 101, citing the Federal Circuit's June 12, 2025 decisions in the parallel USAA v. PNC Bank appeals, which invalidated four USAA mobile deposit patents as directed to the abstract idea of depositing a check with a handheld mobile device. Reuters reported in February 2026 that USAA and Regions reached a settlement in January 2026 following mediation; the reporter's summary of the case listed WilmerHale's district-court team, on which Ms. Nwakama's colleagues appeared. She also appears as backup counsel for Regions Bank in PTAB proceedings Regions Bank v. United Services Automobile Association, IPR2025-01326 (U.S. Patent No. 12,159,310) and IPR2025-01356 (U.S. Patent No. 12,211,095), both filed October 2025, with updated mandatory notices filed as late as January 2026 — so she does have IPR experience, though the public record reviewed shows two related petitions rather than a broad PTAB docket, and outcomes of those proceedings were not confirmed in the sources reviewed.

Bar and education. Registered to practice before the USPTO as a patent attorney (Registration No. 81,445). JD, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2024) and MBE, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (2024); BS in Chemistry with minors in biology, mathematics, and philosophy, Creighton University (2021, summa cum laude). State bar admission was not confirmed in the sources reviewed. Given the commonality of the name, note that a separate Justia inventor listing for "Chisom Nwakama" refers to patent filings and is not verified as the same individual; the attorney profile facts above are drawn from her firm biography and USPTO/PTAB filings.