Patent litigation attorney
Ha Vu Thu Huynh
3 tracked appearances — 0 plaintiff · 3 defendant.
Specialty & background
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Professional Summary — Ha Vu Thu Huynh (Desmarais LLP)
Specialty / focus areas. Huynh's tracked patent work sits in networking and computing hardware rather than pharma or mechanical arts. She appears on the defense team in Dynamic Mesh Networks, Inc. d/b/a MeshDynamics v. Cisco Systems, Inc., a multi-patent dispute over mesh Wi-Fi access points and controllers, SD-WAN with forward error correction, and Webex distributed-SIP functionality. She also appears in ParTec AG v. Microsoft Corp. (E.D. Tex.), where ParTec asserted patents covering dynamic modular system architecture (dMSA) for AI/HPC supercomputer clusters against Microsoft's Azure AI infrastructure. Both matters involve operating-company defendants and standard-practice electrical/computer engineering subject matter; nothing in the record indicates life-sciences or mechanical experience.
Side preference. The tracked data are uniformly defense-side: 0 plaintiff-side appearances and 3 defendant-side appearances. She is not recorded as representing NPEs/PAEs, and her two identifiable matters involve Cisco (market-leading networking equipment) and Microsoft (Azure). The two matters labeled "Lead counsel" in the source data carry no case name; those designations appear to reflect docket appearance roles and should not be read as trial-lead responsibility, particularly given her 2023 bar admission.
Firm context. She is an associate in Desmarais LLP's Washington, D.C. office. The firm is an IP trial boutique founded in 2010 by John M. Desmarais, focused on high-stakes patent litigation, ITC Section 337 work, and PTAB proceedings. Her only other listed experience is a 2022 summer associate position at Desmarais and a 2021 legal internship at Tilleke & Gibbins. No prior law-firm or in-house litigation history was found.
Notable cases / outcomes. In the ParTec–Microsoft matter, the case settled confidentially in May 2026, roughly a month before a scheduled June 2026 trial, with no public finding of infringement or invalidity (reported by Law360 and Lexology). Parallel Cisco–MeshDynamics litigation is more procedurally active: Cisco's Northern District of California declaratory judgment action (No. 5:25-cv-06441) was dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in January 2026, while Dynamic Mesh's E.D. Tex. cases (lead No. 2:25-cv-00781) were consolidated before Judge Gilstrap, and Cisco filed IPRs on the asserted patents (IPR2025-01303, -01304, -01523, -01569 and IPR2026-00008). Her individual contribution to outcomes is not separately documented in public sources.
PTAB / IPR experience. Not verifiable. The Dynamic Mesh IPR petitions list Desmarais attorneys Taeg Sang Cho, Alexander Landyshev, Ryan Thorne and Lindsey Miller as counsel; Huynh is not named. No PTAB appearances, and no USPTO registration number, were located for her — so IPR experience should not be represented.
Bar / education. Admitted in the District of Columbia, 2023. J.D., George Washington University Law School, 2023 (high honors; George Washington International Law Review); B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College, 2019 (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Sourcing note: the biographical details above come from a Desmarais LLP attorney PDF and a CourtListener docket entry for a "Ha Vu Thu Huynh" at the firm's D.C. address. No live firm profile page was located, and no source otherwise confirms the middle name "Vu Thu," so the identity match — while strongly supported — rests on those two records.
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Cases (3)
- Δ defendantDynamic Mesh Networks, Inc. et al. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.Desmarais · Attorney
- Δ defendantUntitled caseDesmarais · Lead counsel
- Δ defendantUntitled caseDesmarais · Lead Counsel