Claire E. Wells

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Claire E. Wells — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Wells is a business litigator, not a career patent specialist. Hodgson Russ's own bio describes her practice as business, education, and healthcare litigation, and her tracked docket at the firm (17 matters per Law360) is dominated by securities, commercial, and personal-property disputes, plus the In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation MDL. Her only identifiable patent matter is Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Xerox Corp., a multi-case wireless-printing/over-the-air content output suit (W.D.N.Y. Nos. 6:23-cv-06370 through 06373), where the asserted patents cover wireless printing, mobile information apparatus, and IEEE 802.11/Bluetooth-adjacent network discovery. So the technology exposure is wireless printing and network device connectivity — handled on the defense side against an NPE — rather than a book of Wi-Fi-standards or pharma patent work.

Side preference. Exclusively defense-side: her tracked appearances show 0 plaintiff and 2 defendant entries, and both entries are the same Flexiworld v. Xerox matter captured twice (once as "local counsel" at Hodgson Russ, once as an unverified defendant-counsel entry). Nothing in the record shows her asserting patents for NPEs/PAEs; the pattern reflects a local-counsel/defense role for an operating company.

Firm context. She is at Hodgson Russ LLP (Rochester, NY), which she joined in late 2023/early 2024 into its Business Litigation Practice; prior to that she was an associate at Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy LLP in Rochester. Note a sourcing conflict: Rochester Business Journal (Dec. 2023) reported her as an associate, while Buffalo Business First (Jan. 2024) described her as a partner — the associate title is more consistent with her 2021 graduation date, so the partner reference should be treated as unreliable. She is not in-house.

Notable cases / outcomes. The Flexiworld v. Xerox cases were resolved by stipulated dismissal with prejudice under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), with each party bearing its own costs and no merits ruling, injunction, or fee award (case closed May 2024). Hodgson Russ served alongside McKool Smith as Xerox's defense counsel; Wells's own role appears to have been local counsel.

PTAB / IPR experience. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances by this attorney were found in searchable records. Related Flexiworld IPRs exist (e.g., Roku v. Flexiworld, IPR2021-00715), but no link to Wells was identified.

Bar / education. Admitted in New York (2022); J.D., Boston University School of Law (2021); B.A., Boston University. Admitted in the W.D.N.Y., N.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., S.D.N.Y., and the Second Circuit.

Caveat: The two tracked appearances are a single underlying matter, so this profile reflects a narrow patent-litigation footprint; "Claire E. Wells" and "Claire Elizabeth Wells" appear to be the same Rochester attorney across the Ward Greenberg and Hodgson Russ records, but the identity should be confirmed against the docket if precision matters.