David C.

I'll research this attorney and the tracked case before drafting.

The name is truncated and highly ambiguous, so let me dig into the docket counsel and Western Digital's patent team.

Strong lead: a "David Chan" is senior patent counsel at Western Digital. Let me verify his background and check for other candidates.

Professional Summary — "David C." (name truncated in source data)

Identification caveat. The tracking data lists this attorney only as "David C.," with a single appearance as senior patent counsel for the defendant. The best available match is David Chan, senior patent counsel at Western Digital Corporation — the name initial, employer, and title line up with the tracked case. One other "David" in Western Digital's IP leadership, David Dutcher, holds the title of chief IP and licensing counsel, which does not match. Any further identification should be confirmed against the case caption before reliance.

Specialty / focus. Based on the case list and web-searchable practice descriptions, the work centers on digital storage and semiconductor technology: 3D NAND flash memory, solid-state drives, hard disk drives, and the signal-processing and control technologies around them, with more recent exposure to machine-learning/AI research areas. Chan's published profile describes a career built first as a software engineer (computer science, Harvey Mudd College), then as a patent agent and patent attorney, then in-house — a prosecution-and-portfolio-strategy profile rather than a courtroom-litigation one. The IPValue matter, which asserts former Cypress Semiconductor flash-memory patents, is consistent with that technology focus.

Side preference and firm context. The single tracked appearance is on the defendant side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), consistent with an in-house role at an operating company. Chan is in-house at Western Digital Corporation, where he has been for roughly a decade-plus, after practicing as a patent attorney at Knobbe Martens and earlier serving as a patent agent at another firm. There is no indication in the available sources that he represents patent owners, NPEs, or multiple outside clients.

Notable case. IPValue Management, Inc. et al. v. Western Digital Corporation, No. 8:25-cv-00119 (C.D. Cal., filed Jan. 22, 2025). IPValue (a licensing/assertion entity) and Longitude Flash Memory Solutions Ltd. asserted five patents acquired from Cypress Semiconductor against Western Digital's 3D NAND–based products — embedded flash, HDDs, SSDs, USB drives, and memory cards. Western Digital moved to dismiss and to stay pending a related N.D. Cal. action; SanDisk Corporation was added as a defendant via amended complaint. The docket is listed as closed on at least one aggregator, but no disposition, verdict, or settlement has been verified from the sources reviewed. No appellate or trial results attributable to this attorney were found.

PTAB / IPR. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances by this attorney were verified. Western Digital entities have been active petitioners in PTAB proceedings relevant to the asserted patents (e.g., IPR2025-00515/516/517 against Polaris PowerLED Technologies and IPR2023-01286 against Longitude Licensing), but counsel of record on those petitions is not this attorney, and his personal participation cannot be confirmed.

Bar / education. Per a 2021 Modern Counsel profile: B.S.-level computer science degree with an English literature minor from Harvey Mudd College, J.D. from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles). Bar admission state(s) were not verified in the sources reviewed.