Christopher Centurelli

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Christopher Centurelli — K&L Gates (Boston)

Centurelli's practice centers on complex IP litigation — patent, trade secret, and related commercial disputes — with an emphasis on electronics, telecommunications/video-conferencing hardware, robotics, medical devices, and mechanical/industrial products. K&L Gates' and Chambers' practice descriptions list clients and matters spanning AI software tools, analog-to-digital converters, medical devices, robots, mobile phones and telecom equipment, HVAC equipment, electronic storage devices, de-icing solutions, food ingredients, and adhesive tapes. Legal 500 specifically describes his focus as "complex patent disputes related to electronic devices, robotics and medical diagnostics." He is also an electrical/computer-engineering-trained practitioner with post-grant experience, so much of the docket is hardware- and standards-adjacent rather than life-sciences patent prosecution.

Side preference. Within the tracked data he is predominantly on the patent-owner/plaintiff side: three of four appearances are plaintiff-side (Barco's U.S. enforcement campaign against Yealink, plus a related Barco NV matter) and one is a PTAB proceeding in which he represents the patent owner. His broader record is more balanced, however — firm biographies and public dockets show him defending operating companies such as KAYAK, Archer Daniels Midland, Lenovo/EMC, United Rentals, and Quest Diagnostics. He is not an NPE/PAE-focused filer; the plaintiff work in the tracked set is for a practicing manufacturer enforcing its own portfolio.

Notable cases and PTAB work. The most prominent tracked matter is Barco, Inc. / Barco NV v. Yealink (USA) Network Technology Co. and Yealink Network Technology Co. (E.D. Tex., No. 2:23-cv-00521, Judge Gilstrap), where Centurelli is plaintiffs' counsel of record alongside K&L Gates colleagues. Yealink admitted infringing 75 claims across six Barco ClickShare wireless-presentation patents, and after trial in November 2025 the jury awarded Barco approximately $907,360 in past damages while rejecting Barco's ongoing indirect-infringement and willfulness theories; post-trial briefing on entry of judgment, ongoing royalty, and a permanent injunction remained pending, with Yealink separately seeking a stay in light of USPTO proceedings. Public PTAB records also show Yealink IPRs against several of the asserted patents, in which Centurelli replaced prior counsel as lead counsel for the Patent Owner (IPR2025-00597/598), and reports indicate the Board issued final written decisions in April 2026 holding challenged claims of four asserted patents unpatentable, with the remaining asserted claims in ex parte reexamination. Separately, his firm profile notes defense-side wins including a Federal Circuit-affirmed § 101 invalidation and fee award for KAYAK in Source Search Technologies v. KAYAK Software, a defense verdict for ADM in Sears v. Archer Daniels Midland, and an inter partes reexamination of an Intellectual Ventures patent for Lenovo/EMC. His PTAB/IPR experience is regular but not volume-leading: he has appeared as both petitioner counsel (e.g., 2016-era IPRs) and patent-owner counsel (2025 Barco IPRs). Note: the tracked list also includes one proceeding captioned "Unified Patents v. Unknown Patent Owner" (patent-owner side); I could not independently verify the specifics of that matter.

Bar and education. Admitted in Massachusetts (1998) and before the USPTO (Reg. No. 44,599), the Federal Circuit, the First Circuit, and the District of Massachusetts; J.D., Boston College Law School (1998, cum laude); B.S., Computer Engineering, Tufts University (1995, magna cum laude). He appears to have spent his relevant litigation career at K&L Gates, the only firm reflected in the tracked appearances and in public IPR filings dating to 2016.