George Andrew Gordon

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Summary — George Andrew Gordon (patent side)

Posture and side preference. The tracked data shows a single appearance, on the defendant side, in Schaefer Systems International, Inc. v. Aloft Media, LLC et al. (W.D.N.C. No. 3:22-cv-00513). That "defendant" label is a posture artifact rather than a defense practice: Mr. Gordon is not a defense-side litigator for operating companies. According to the court's June 16, 2023 opinion in Schaefer, he is a USPTO-registered patent attorney who is the managing member and registered agent of Aloft Media, LLC, a Texas patent-holding/licensing entity, and he personally signed the demand letter and accompanying claim chart and proposed license that triggered the case. He appears in that docket and in later ones because accused companies filed declaratory-judgment and abusive-patent-assertion suits against him individually. Web-verified follow-on matters include Nouryon USA LLC v. Aloft Media, LLC et al. (D. Del. No. 1:26-cv-00193, filed Feb. 23, 2026) and Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. v. Aloft Media, LLC et al. (N.D. Ind. No. 1:25-cv-00273) — the latter not in the tracked list. In short: he is a patent-assertion/monetization-side actor, not a prosecutor of patents for NPE clients in the conventional sense and not a defense-side operating-company lawyer.

Technology focus. The asserted portfolio is web/browser user-interface software — Aloft Media's "Hyperlink with Graphical Cue" family (e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 10,372,793; 10,042,823; 10,482,164; 11,308,260; 10,078,623), aimed at standard website drop-down navigation menus. The targets are ordinary corporate websites (Schaefer's materials-handling site, Nouryon's specialty-chemicals site, Brotherhood Mutual's insurance site), so the asserted technology is not tied to any single industry; it is generic e-commerce/corporate-web functionality. Aloft Media has a long history of this pattern, including Aloft Media, LLC v. Adobe Systems Inc. (E.D. Tex. 2008).

Firm context — important caveat. The tracked "firm" field, George Street Partners, is almost certainly mislabeled. George Street Partners is an Illinois corporation with its principal place of business in Indiana that serves as Aloft Media's "authorized licensing agent," and its president, Todd Schmidt, is a co-defendant alongside Mr. Gordon — not a law firm employing him. I found no reliable source establishing a law-firm affiliation, in-house role, or prior firm history for this individual. Note also that this attorney is a different person from George G. Gordon of Dechert (Philadelphia), the antitrust/life-sciences partner — that attorney's FTC/Endo and Opana ER work should not be attributed here.

Notable outcomes, PTAB, and credentials. The most substantial verified result is in Schaefer: on June 16, 2023, Judge Kenneth D. Bell denied the defendants' motions to dismiss, holding that specific personal jurisdiction existed in North Carolina based on the demand letter and subsequent communications directed into the state, and that Schaefer had plausibly stated a claim of bad-faith assertion under the North Carolina Abusive Patent Assertion Act. That ruling is widely cited in practice commentary on demand-letter-based jurisdiction; the case was later closed by a dismissal order. In the tracked case his role is recorded as pro se, and docket entries show him filing his own answer and affirmative defenses (with counsel of record also appearing in the matter), so the self-representation designation is plausible but the record is mixed. In the 2026 Delaware matter he is represented by Farnan LLP, and a "Declaration of G. Andrew Gordon" was filed with the defendants' May 4, 2026 motion to dismiss. I found no evidence of IPR/PGR/PTAB appearances by him, and no reliably sourced information on state bar admissions, education, or prior firm history beyond his USPTO registration — those points are omitted rather than inferred.