Dana Rashay Howard

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Dana Rashay Howard — Patent Litigation Summary

Dana Rashay Howard is a Member at Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, based in the firm's Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky offices, where she has practiced since 2007. She is a registered patent attorney whose practice is broader than patent litigation alone: the firm describes her as a complex commercial litigator handling IP disputes (patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secrets, unfair competition), class actions, ERISA matters, and privacy/data-security work, and she has prosecuted patent applications in the biotechnology and imaging fields. Her patent litigation work, as tracked, centers on a single technology family — the wireless-printing and mobile-device-to-output-device patents asserted by Flexiworld Technologies, covering wireless printers and mobile printing applications.

Side preference. All five tracked appearances are on the defendant side, with zero plaintiff-side appearances. That is consistent with defense of an operating company (Lexmark) rather than NPE/PAE-side assertion work. This should be read as a small sample, however: it reflects essentially one dispute and related consolidations, not a broad longitudinal plaintiff/defendant split, and her wider docket includes representations on both sides in trademark and commercial matters.

Notable cases. Her tracked patent matters are all iterations of Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc. (and a related Lexmark v. Flexiworld action), consolidated in the Eastern District of Kentucky before Judge Karen K. Caldwell (e.g., No. 5:22-cv-00110-KKC, filed April 2022). Flexiworld asserted a large family of patents (including the '233, '031, '576, '725 and others) against Lexmark's wireless printers and mobile apps. Lexmark moved to dismiss the original complaints; the court allowed the amended complaints to proceed, rejecting Lexmark's challenge to Flexiworld's § 287 marking allegations (ruling filed March 2023). No public verdict, judgment, or settlement confirming a final outcome was located, so the result of this dispute is not verified here. She also appears in non-patent matters, including CTA Acoustics, Inc. v. HP Pelzer Automotive Systems and trademark work for Little Caesar Enterprises.

PTAB / IPR. Her tracked district-court docket does not show personal appearances in IPR/PGR proceedings. It is worth noting that Lexmark filed IPR petitions against Flexiworld's asserted patents (e.g., the '233 patent); whether Howard personally appeared in those PTAB proceedings is not confirmed by available sources.

Bar / education. J.D., University of Kentucky College of Law (2007, magna cum laude); B.A., University of Kentucky (1998, summa cum laude). Admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit, the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the USPTO.

Source note: Professional details are drawn from the Stoll Keenon Ogden firm profile and court docket records; identity is corroborated by the docket entry naming "Dana Rashay Howard" as counsel for Lexmark. Outcome data for the Flexiworld/Lexmark matters could not be reliably verified.