Daniel R. Gopenko

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Daniel R. Gopenko — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Gopenko is an electrical-engineer-turned-litigator (B.S. EE, University of Maryland) whose practice centers on electronics and communications technologies. His docket and firm bio reflect work spanning cellular/3GPP standard-based wireless and network equipment, non-volatile memory, MEMS sensors, consumer electronics and displays, mesh/security networking, and automotive systems, with occasional forays into biotechnology (nanopore sequencing), medical devices (Jawbone microphone patents), and business-method software (Hantz Software v. Sage Intacct). He also handles plastics/packaging patents (the Plastipak water-bottle campaigns) and ITC Section 337 work.

Side preference. He is predominantly a defense-side litigator representing operating companies. The tracked data shows four defendant-side appearances versus one plaintiff-side, and the pattern holds across his public docket: he has defended Tesla in multiple matters (including the NPE suits Arsus, LLC v. Tesla Motors and the tracked Intellectual Ventures action), Apple (Jawbone Innovations), Alarm.com (SkyBell), Sage Intacct, Arista Networks, InvenSense, Research In Motion, and LG Electronics. He is not a one-sided defense lawyer, however — he has also been plaintiff-side counsel, for example representing Plastipak Packaging in multi-patent water-bottle cases, Huawei in its multi-patent suit against Verizon, and complainants Macronix, Cambria, and Illumina/University of Washington in ITC investigations.

Firm context. Gopenko has spent his career at Fish & Richardson P.C. in the Washington, D.C. office, where he is now a Principal; Fish & Richardson accounts for four of his five tracked appearances. One tracked plaintiff-side appearance is recorded under Gillam & Smith (a Marshall, Texas firm) with Gopenko as lead counsel — I could not independently corroborate the details of that engagement from public sources, so it should be verified against the docket before being relied on. (Martindale also lists earlier associate/principal progression at Fish; no other firm history surfaced.)

Notable cases and PTAB experience. His most prominent tracked matter is Intellectual Ventures LLC (II) v. Tesla, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-00884-ADA (W.D. Tex., Judge Albright), a multi-patent assertion against Tesla that he helped brief and that was paralleled by a large Tesla IPR campaign (IPR2025-00217 through -00343) and a joint dismissal with prejudice of at least U.S. Patent No. 8,898,395. Other verifiable matters include Huawei v. Verizon (resolved), the LG Chem/SK Innovation lithium-ion battery dispute in the ITC and D. Del. (IPR2020-00987 service list), and the InvenSense/STMicroelectronics MEMS case, which settled favorably during trial. He has recognized PTAB/post-grant experience — Managing Intellectual Property named him a "Rising Star" in post-grant practice in 2018 — and he appears in IPR proceedings, though the available data does not show him as a routine first-chair IPR petitioner.

Bar / education. Admitted in Virginia (2012) and the District of Columbia (2014); registered practitioner with the USPTO (Reg. No. 67092). J.D. with honors, George Washington University Law School (2012); B.S. cum laude in electrical engineering, University of Maryland (2009). He served as a judicial intern to then-Chief Judge Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2012).