Eugene M. Pak

Eugene M. Pak — patent litigation practice (verification-limited summary)

Focus areas. The three tracked matters cluster in computer, networking, and semiconductor technology rather than pharma or mechanical arts. Red Hat, Inc. v. VirtaMove, Corp. is an open-source/virtualization dispute — Red Hat's N.D. Cal. declaratory-judgment action over patents VirtaMove had asserted against Microsoft and Oracle, with VirtaMove relying on Red Hat's OpenShift product. Ciena Corporation v. K.Mizra LLC concerns optical networking and network-management software (Ciena's Blue Planet portfolio; pseudowire and resource-adapter technology). Micron Technology, Inc. v. Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. is a memory/semiconductor dispute mixing patent and trade-secret claims. Nothing in the tracked record shows Wi-Fi/standards-essential-patent or life-sciences work.

Side preference. Mixed, but defense-weighted: two of three tracked appearances are for defendants (VirtaMove; Micron/YMTC) and one is for a plaintiff operating company — Ciena, asserting against a monetization entity (K.Mizra, described in the record as a funded entity that has sued on dozens of patents). There is no tracked appearance as plaintiff's counsel for an NPE/PAE. Roles vary: lead counsel in the Ciena and Micron matters, local counsel in the Red Hat matter.

Firm context and notable matters. Two appearances list Sidley Austin; one lists Sideman & Bancroft (San Francisco), where Pak served as local counsel in Red Hat v. VirtaMove. In that case the district court denied Red Hat leave to amend and its request for jurisdictional discovery as futile, finding no Article III case or controversy — a favorable defense result. In the Ciena dispute, K.Mizra's N.D. Ga. complaint (No. 1:24-cv-05442, filed Nov. 25, 2024) asserts network-management patents including U.S. 8,782,282; a Ciena IPR against the '282 patent (IPR2025-01362, filed Aug. 31, 2025) is on file.

PTAB/IPR and credentials. I could not verify that Pak personally appears in IPR/PGR proceedings; the PTAB docket for IPR2025-01362 lists Duane Morris for the petitioner and Folio Law Group for the patent owner. Bar admission and education are likewise not reliably sourced and are therefore omitted.

Disambiguation caveat. Searches surfaced a same-named California attorney (State Bar No. 168699) with a trademark, brand, and beverage/alcohol practice at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean and later Fennemore — a profile that does not match the patent-litigation work above. I could not locate a firm bio, bar record, or education history confirming the patent-litigation attorney's background; the firm and case attributions above rest on the tracked case list, and the litigation outcomes cited are drawn from the court and PTAB records, not from an attorney-specific source.