Coke Morgan Stewart

Specialty / focus areas. Coke Morgan Stewart is a patent and appellate litigator whose tracked matters cluster in consumer-electronics and human-interface technology — specifically stylus- and touch-based optical input systems (the Power2B patents at issue against Samsung and Unified Patents). Her official USPTO bios describe a broader practice representing patent holders and accused infringers in complex infringement cases, and as Acting USPTO Director she oversaw matters spanning semiconductor patents, computer graphics, and policy on drug pricing and AI.

Side preference. All three tracked appearances are defense-side (3 defendant, 0 plaintiff). She has defended both an operating company (Samsung in Power2B v. Samsung) and a patent owner facing an IPR petitioner (Power2B in Unified Patents LLC v. Power2B), consistent with her stated private-practice profile of representing "both patent holders and accused infringers."

Firm context. She was most recently in private practice at O'Melveny & Myers' Washington, DC office as senior counsel in its Intellectual Property & Technology group (joined July 2023), and earlier practiced in Kaye Scholer's IP group. The tracked matter list also reflects an of-counsel appearance at Paul Hastings, though that stint is not documented in her public bios. She is currently Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce and Deputy Director of the USPTO — after serving as Acting Director from January to September 2025 — and, per IPWatchdog (July 2026), is leaving the agency to return to private practice.

Notable matters / outcomes. She led O'Melveny's defense of Samsung against Power2B's stylus-input patents. That effort ended with the Federal Circuit affirming the PTAB's cancellation of 42 Power2B claims and reversing the Board's decision upholding a single surviving claim (Power2B v. Samsung, No. 23-2184, May 19, 2025), alongside companion appeals in Nos. 23-1629 and 23-1630. Her official bio also credits an early-career trial win that produced the eighth-largest jury verdict in federal court that year and the then-largest patent infringement award in the Eastern District of Virginia.

PTAB / IPR experience. Extensive. Her tracked cases are IPR-centric, her O'Melveny role expressly covered PTAB matters and Federal Circuit appeals, and she has handled roughly 70 Federal Circuit appeals. As Acting Director she reshaped PTAB procedure (bifurcated discretionary-denial process; the "settled expectations" doctrine; the September 2025 rule limiting general-knowledge evidence in IPR petitions), giving her unusually deep first-hand command of the administrative side.

Bar / education. B.A., Duke University (cum laude); J.D., University of Virginia School of Law; clerked on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Her service in Virginia State Bar IP Section and DC Bar leadership roles implies admission in both jurisdictions, though formal bar records were not directly verified in the sources reviewed.