Daniel M. Jordan

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Daniel M. Jordan — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Jordan's practice sits in the mechanical and electrical arts, with firm-listed technical experience in automotive electronics, computer hardware and software, medical devices, internet services, power electronics and semiconductor structures, and wireless charging. His prosecution-side work covers hydraulic systems, water treatment, computer networks, cybersecurity, financial services/business systems, and data analysis. He holds a B.S. in civil engineering (University of Florida, 2008) and spent roughly a decade in the construction and utility-infrastructure industry before law school — an unusually mechanical/structural technical background for an electrical-arts litigator — though he is now a registered patent practitioner before the USPTO.

Side preference. The structured case data shows a single tracked appearance, on the plaintiff side, in Volkswagen Group of America v. Longhorn Automotive Group. Substantively, however, that posture reflects petitioner/declaratory-judgment alignment rather than NPE work: Jordan's firm-reported docket is overwhelmingly defense-side representation of large operating companies (Volkswagen/Audi/Bentley/Lamborghini, FedEx, Truist Bank) against patent holders including Arigna Technology, Scramoge Technology, Longhorn Automotive, and Acacia subsidiary R2 Solutions. On the available record he defends operating companies; there is no indication he prosecutes for NPEs/PAEs.

Firm context. Jordan is an associate at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Reston, Va. office). No prior law-firm employer is disclosed; the only pre-legal employer identified is the construction industry.

Notable matters. Firm materials credit him as part of teams that: (1) won a complete defense for Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, and Lamborghini in Certain Power Inverters and Converters, ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1267, where the ALJ found no violation of Section 337 as to U.S. Patent Nos. 8,247,867 and 8,289,082 and the full Commission upheld that determination, with parallel IPR institutions (IPR2021-01321, -01531) and an early E.D. Tex. dismissal; (2) obtained a four-patent stay-and-settlement win for Volkswagen against Scramoge in wireless-charging litigation (E.D. Mich. 2:22-cv-10730), reportedly with no payment by VW; (3) defended FedEx against R2 Solutions/Acacia, securing a Federal Circuit mandamus on transfer and dismissal after IPR petitions; and (4) represented Truist Bank against USAA's mobile-deposit patents, ending in dismissal. In the tracked matter, the Longhorn dispute went the other way at the PTAB: VW's petitions were discretionarily denied (IPR2025-00925, denied Sept. 12, 2025; Director Review denied Nov. 12, 2025), and the Federal Circuit denied Volkswagen's mandamus petition in In re Volkswagen Group of America, No. 26-123 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 19, 2026); a related petition, IPR2025-01064, terminated as settled. Note that these results are firm-reported and largely team-based — the search materials do not independently establish Jordan's individual role or whether he personally argued any hearing or appeal.

PTAB/IPR experience. Yes — significant and repeated. Finnegan's profile states he has prepared and defended "numerous" IPR petitions alongside co-pending district court litigation, and lists him on IPR proceedings involving Volkswagen, Truist, and FedEx, including IPR2021-01321/-01531, IPR2022-01309/-01354/-01543/-01559, IPR2022-01405/-01456/-01457, and the USAA-related IPR2022-01593 and IPR2023-00143/-00144/-00183/-00184/-00829.

Bar and education. Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., magna cum laude (2020); Order of the Coif; admitted in the District of Columbia and before the USPTO (court admissions include E.D. Tex. and the Federal Circuit).