Daniel M. Lepp

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Research limitation up front: web searches for this attorney's name returned no reliable professional profile — hits were for unrelated individuals (an attorney named Daniel Leppert, a hockey player, an Italian lawyer). I therefore could not verify bar admissions, education, prior firm history, verdicts, or PTAB activity. The summary below rests on the authoritative case data supplied; anything unverified is flagged rather than asserted. (Note also a real disambiguation risk: "Lepp" profiles are easily confused with attorney Daniel T. Leppert in Colorado/Georgia.)

Specialty / focus areas. Lepp's single tracked appearance places him in a patent case against automaker defendants: AutoConnect Holdings LLC v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. et al., where he appeared as counsel for the defense. The AutoConnect litigation is a multi-defendant automotive-connectivity campaign, and the subject matter would involve vehicle infotainment, navigation, and telematics/connectivity systems rather than Wi-Fi standards, pharma, or mechanical arts. One data point is too thin to characterize a technology practice area reliably — I cannot say from this record whether he handles automotive software/electronics generally or took this matter as a one-off.

Side preference. The counts are unambiguous but small: 0 plaintiff-side appearances, 1 defendant-side appearance. On the tracked record he sits on the defense side, representing an operating company (Volkswagen Group of America and co-defendants) against a plaintiff holding asserted patents — the profile of defense-side work for a product company, not representation of an NPE/PAE. A single case is a weak basis for concluding he "primarily" defends; the honest characterization is that his tracked patent work is defense-side.

Firm context. The tracked engagement is attributed to Norton Rose Fulbright US. I could not verify whether this is his current firm, when he joined, or whether he practiced elsewhere previously — no public source confirming his affiliation surfaced in search. If he is now elsewhere or in-house, that is not reflected in the available data.

Notable cases / outcomes / PTAB. The only tracked case is AutoConnect Holdings LLC v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. et al. No outcome, verdict, settlement, or Federal Circuit result for that case is verifiable here, and I found no evidence of IPR/PGR filings or PTAB appearances. I would not claim IPR experience on this record. Bar admissions and education: not reliably sourced, so omitted.

If the attorney needs a complete profile, the productive next step is a direct check of Norton Rose Fulbright's site, the docket in the AutoConnect matter, and PTAB dockets for party-name matches — all of which I could not reach here.