Hilda C. Galvan

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Professional Summary — Hilda C. Galvan

Specialty / focus areas. Galvan's practice centers on complex patent and technology litigation, with an electrical-engineering background (she worked as an engineer in the telecommunications industry before law school) that recurs in her case mix. Reported representative technologies include telecommunications and wireless communication, software and internet applications, semiconductor processing and equipment, electronic circuits, smart meters, and navigation systems — not pharma or mechanical arts. Her tracked matters are almost entirely financial-services and communications technology: the Intellectual Ventures II assertions against Compass Bank/BBVA Compass, Commerce Bancshares, and First National Bank of Omaha involved online banking security technologies (security certificate management, packet filtering, intrusion detection).

Side preference. She has worked both sides, but her tracked appearance record skews defense: 5 defendant-side and 2 plaintiff-side entries. Much of that defense work is on behalf of operating companies — principally banks and, more recently, Motorola Solutions/WatchGuard — against NPE/PAE patent assertions. The plaintiff-side entries arise largely from the banks' own affirmative PTAB and Federal Circuit postures against Intellectual Ventures. Web-sourced practice descriptions also confirm portfolio-enforcement work for technology clients, including IBM (patent enforcement actions against Amazon.com) and Charles Schwab, so she is not a one-sided practitioner, but recent patent docketing leans defense.

Firm context. Galvan spent essentially her entire legal career at Jones Day, joining as an associate in 1996, making partner in 2003, and serving as Partner-in-Charge of the firm's Dallas office from 2014 to 2024. All seven tracked appearances are Jones Day matters. The Texas Lawbook has reported that she stepped away from the firm to pursue consulting, board, and nonprofit work; a third-party aggregator (SignalHire) lists her as managing member of "HC Galvan Law, PLLC" since March 2025, but that specific detail is not confirmed by a primary or firm source and should be verified before reliance.

Notable cases and outcomes. The most prominent tracked matter is the coordinated defense of Compass Bank, Commerce Bancshares, and First National Bank of Omaha against Intellectual Ventures II. In the related IPRs — IPR2014-00724/-00786 and IPR2014-00801 — the PTAB held unpatentable all asserted claims of the three patents at issue (U.S. Patents 5,745,574; 6,314,409; 6,715,084), and the Federal Circuit affirmed in Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Compass Bank / Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares (Fed. Cir. Nos. 16-1416, 16-1519, nonprecedential judgment entered Dec. 9, 2016; panel of Dyk, Plager, Reyna). She is also credited on JuxtaComm-Texas Software, LLC v. Axway, Inc. (E.D. Tex.), where summary judgment of invalidity under 35 U.S.C. § 112 ¶ 2 was affirmed by the Federal Circuit (No. 2013-1004, Sept. 30, 2013), and on defense work for Mattel (trade secret) and Sercel (patent infringement).

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — she appears regularly in AIA post-grant proceedings as lead or back-up counsel, primarily on the petitioner side. Examples include the Compass/Banks IPRs against Intellectual Ventures and, more recently, Motorola Solutions' 2024 IPR petitions challenging eight Stellar, LLC patents (e.g., IPR2024-00207, -00511, -01314) in parallel with Stellar, LLC v. Motorola Solutions, Inc. (E.D. Tex.). She was withdrawn as lead counsel in the Stellar district court action on September 30, 2024.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas and registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 39,680); B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso (1985); J.D., University of Texas at Austin (1993). Longstanding Chambers USA and IAM Patent 1000 rankings in IP litigation; named Best Lawyers' 2019 "Lawyer of the Year" for Litigation–Patent. She has no in-house counsel role of record.