Donald J. Coulman (in-house, Intellectual Ventures)

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Let me dig further into his background and the tracked case.

Donald J. Coulman — patent litigation summary

Focus areas. The publicly available record places Mr. Coulman's patent work in computer hardware and software-adjacent technologies rather than life sciences: the Intellectual Ventures matters he worked on involved cryptographic co-processors and encryption hardware (U.S. Pat. 7,634,666 "crypto-engine"), systems for controlling access to and distribution of digital property (the '409 patent), digital signature and public-key certificate verification (the '574 patent), and memory/electronics patents. Earlier in his career he prosecuted patents as a registered practitioner in Hewlett-Packard Company's Intellectual Property Administration (Fort Collins, Colorado), where he is listed as agent of record on a number of PCT filings in the 2004–2008 period. No Wi-Fi/standards-essential or pharmaceutical practice is evidenced in the sources reviewed.

Side preference / role. The tracked-record counts (1 appearance, defendant side, in-house) understate his actual posture. Mr. Coulman's documented work is entirely on the patent-owner/monetization side: he served as in-house counsel for Intellectual Ventures I LLC and Intellectual Ventures II LLC — a company widely characterized as a patent-assertion entity — defending IV's patents against validity challenges by operating companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, PNC, and Commerce Bancshares. He does not appear as counsel for operating-company defendants; where he appears as "defendant," that reflects IV's status as patent owner in the PTAB/declaratory proceedings rather than a defense-side practice.

Firm context. In-house at Intellectual Ventures (Bellevue, Washington), with a prior in-house patent prosecution role at Hewlett-Packard. PTAB filings confirm he ceased to be IV in-house counsel as of April 2019, when IV moved to withdraw his appearance (motions granted in April 2019 in IPR2014-00504 and IPR2014-00787). I found no verified source for his current employer or any law-firm affiliation.

PTAB/IPR experience. This is a substantial part of his record. He appears as counsel (typically backup) for IV in IPR2014-00682, IPR2014-00504, IPR2014-00787, IPR2014-00801, and IPR2015-01323, and participated by telephone in the consolidated CBM oral hearing in CBM2014-00028/29/30/33 (Bank of America/PNC v. IV). In the tracked matter — J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC (CBM2014-00157/00160; parallel S.D.N.Y. case No. 1:13-cv-03777) — the Board instituted CBM review of the '409 patent on § 101 grounds, and Judge Hellerstein granted JPMC partial summary judgment of invalidity under § 101 in April 2015 as to three IV patents, with the '574 patent later withdrawn on consent. Those results went against his client; the later history of the remaining '666 patent is not established by the sources I reviewed.

Bar / education. Registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 50,406) and listed in a Washington attorney directory. Educational background was not reliably sourced and is omitted.