Evan Kennedy Larson

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Evan Kennedy Larson — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Larson is a San Francisco associate whose practice is general intellectual property litigation rather than a narrow patent specialty. His only tracked patent matter, Cloud Byte LLC v. Dell Inc. (E.D. Tex. No. 2:24-cv-00637), involves enterprise IT hardware and data-center networking drawn from a former NEC patent portfolio: Ethernet switching/SDN packet forwarding, RAID disk-array rebuild systems, server cooling and thermal/abnormality detection, and high-availability redundant server systems. His wider IP work per Quinn Emanuel's bio spans copyright and trade secret litigation. There is no evidence in the tracked record of pharma, life sciences, or Wi-Fi/standards-essential patent work.

Side preference. All three tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, and the only identifiable patent case is on behalf of the patent holder — Cloud Byte LLC, which the Stanford NPE Litigation Database classifies as a non-practicing entity that acquired its asserted patents (RPX reported a transfer of roughly 200 assets from Singapore-based IP Wave Pte. Ltd. to a Delaware entity formed in February 2024). That said, the sample is very small and largely reflects one case; his firm-reported copyright and ITC work is defense- and plaintiff-side respectively, so it would be inaccurate to characterize him as a dedicated NPE-side lawyer.

Firm context. Larson has been at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in San Francisco since 2021 and has no prior firm in the record; before that he clerked for Associate Chief Justice John A. Pearce of the Utah Supreme Court (2020–2021). In Cloud Byte he appears alongside Quinn Emanuel partners Yury Kapgan, Ryan Goldstein, and Brian Mack, with Miller Fair Henry as Texas local counsel — a relatively junior role on a partner-led team.

Notable matters. Cloud Byte v. Dell asserts seven patents against Dell's PowerEdge/RAID/Networking lines before Judge Rodney Gilstrap. A publicly available January 29, 2026 opinion granted Cloud Byte's motion to dismiss Dell's 35 U.S.C. § 287 failure-to-mark counterclaims — a favorable result for Larson's client. Dell filed four IPR petitions on July 14, 2025 (IPR2025-01285, -01286, -01287, -01288) challenging the '177, '632, '265, and '320 patents, and Unified Patents requested ex parte reexamination of the '544 patent in December 2024; the district case remained pending on the last available docket. Quinn Emanuel's firm bio also credits Larson with membership on a 2024 trial team that won a defense verdict in a nine-figure copyright case and with a plaintiff-side ITC trade secret matter, but I could not independently verify the case names or his specific role from public sources, so those are firm-reported only.

PTAB/IPR experience. None appears in the tracked appearance list. His firm acts as patent-owner counsel for Cloud Byte in the Dell IPRs, but I could not confirm Larson personally on any PTAB filing; he does not appear to be a registered patent practitioner on the public record.

Bar and education. Admitted to the State Bar of California in 2021 (No. 337984); also admitted in the N.D. Cal. and C.D. Cal. J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law, 2020; M.P.P., UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, 2020; A.B., Princeton University, 2013.