Dana Anderson

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Dana L. Anderson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Anderson is an IP litigation associate whose practice centers on patent and trademark disputes in federal district courts and at the International Trade Commission. Firm-published bios describe her technology coverage as semiconductors, telecommunications, cybersecurity, and computer hardware and networking. Her tracked docket aligns with that description: the matters are cybersecurity/network-security patent disputes (Centripetal Networks v. Palo Alto Networks over next-generation firewall technology) and enterprise software (Cyandia v. SAP). There is no indication in the tracked matters or sourced practice descriptions of pharma, life-sciences, or mechanical patent work.

Side preference. All five tracked appearances are recorded on the plaintiff side, with no defendant-side appearances in the dataset. In practice that has meant representing patent owners/plaintiffs — Centripetal Networks and Cyandia — rather than defending operating companies, and not the classic PAE/NPE model: the clients here are operating security-software and technology companies asserting their own patents (Centripetal, a cybersecurity company, has also been characterized as a patent-assertion plaintiff in litigation commentary). Her recorded roles span trial team member, trial counsel, and associate counsel, i.e., a supporting-to-mid-level litigation role rather than first-chair.

Firm context. She is listed by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) as an associate in the Silicon Valley / Redwood Shores office. Her earlier tracked matters were filed under the Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel name, the firm that combined with Herbert Smith Freehills to form HSF Kramer; her credential listings at both firms refer to the same Centripetal matter. Note a discrepancy: a Brown Rudnick attorney page carries a substantively identical biography for a "Dana L. Anderson" in that firm's IP litigation group. I could not verify from available sources whether this reflects a later move to Brown Rudnick or a stale/duplicated listing, so her current firm should be confirmed directly before relying on it in a filing or bio.

Notable matters and outcomes. Her most prominent tracked case is Centripetal Networks v. Palo Alto Networks (E.D. Va.), where she was a trial team member on the team that obtained a $151.5 million jury verdict on January 31, 2024, with the jury finding that Palo Alto's next-generation firewalls infringed all four asserted Centripetal patents after a two-week trial; the team was recognized as a runner-up in Litigation Daily's Litigator of the Week and the firm won Managing IP's 2025 Impact Case of the Year for the matter. She is also credited as an associate on the HSF Kramer team that secured a $17 million willful-infringement jury verdict for Cyandia Inc. against SAP America and SAP SE in the Eastern District of Texas on April 16, 2026, in a case where SAP's PTAB invalidity effort against one patent was unsuccessful. I did not find independently verified results for every mirror-image Palo Alto-captioned entry in the tracked list, and I could not verify the current appellate status of the Centripetal verdict from the sources retrieved.

PTAB / IPR experience. No source retrieved confirms that Anderson personally appears as counsel in IPR or PGR proceedings; her firm-level Cyandia matter involved a PTAB challenge by the opposing party. She is not shown in available sources as a registered patent practitioner before the USPTO, so IPR-specific experience should be treated as unverified.

Bar and education. Admitted in California (2022); J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2020); B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley (2009). Court admissions include the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Sources: Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer attorney profile and firm news releases (Centripetal verdict, Cyandia/SAP verdict, Managing IP award); Brown Rudnick attorney profile; U.S. News lawyer directory (Kramer Levin listing). Facts not corroborated by these sources are flagged above as unverified.