Jack Daniel Kitchen

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Professional Summary: Jack Daniel Kitchen

Specialty / focus areas. Kitchen's tracked patent litigation activity is concentrated in a single matter: CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. et al (E.D. Tex., filed May 27, 2020), in which he appeared for the Consolidated Communications defendants. The asserted patents in the CommWorks campaigns generally cover 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol technologies — QoS/WMM prioritization, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, and mesh networking (e.g., U.S. Patent Nos. 7,027,465; 7,177,285; 6,891,807; 7,463,596; 7,911,979; and RE44,904) — so his defensive work sits in the wireless-networking/telecommunications standards space rather than pharma or mechanical arts. The State Bar of Texas self-reported profile lists his practice areas more broadly as commercial litigation and contracts.

Side preference. He is exclusively a defense-side practitioner on the tracked record: 0 plaintiff-side appearances and 5 defendant-side entries, all as counsel or counsel of record for an operating company. There is no evidence of NPE/PAE-side prosecution or assertion work. Given his in-house role, the defense posture is consistent with an operating-company defendant managing outside-counsel-style filings in a multi-defendant patent campaign.

Firm context. Per his State Bar of Texas registration, Kitchen is in-house/corporate counsel at Consolidated Communications, with a practice location in Conroe, Texas — i.e., he defended his own employer rather than acting as outside litigation counsel. No prior law-firm history surfaced in searchable sources, so any earlier firm affiliation cannot be confirmed. (Note: a "Kitchen" appears as an expert declarant in certain Nintendo IPR proceedings; that reference is not verifiable as this attorney, and should not be conflated.)

Notable cases and outcomes. The CommWorks v. Consolidated Communications matter is the only tracked case and the most prominent one to note. CommWorks is a patent assertion entity (its parent is identified in related filings as Brainbox Innovations, LLC), and the 2020 Consolidated Communications case was one of its earlier enforcement actions; the company has since run broader campaigns against TI, Qualcomm, VTech, DrayTek, and others. I could not verify a merits ruling, verdict, or appeal in the Consolidated Communications case from available sources — the wider CommWorks docket shows a pattern of extensions of time to answer and stipulated/voluntary dismissals rather than adjudicated outcomes, so no specific result should be attributed to this matter without docket confirmation.

PTAB / IPR experience. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB filings were located in which Jack Daniel Kitchen appears as counsel. His PTAB practice, if any, is unverified.

Bar / education. Admitted to the State Bar of Texas (Bar No. 24084320), licensed December 6, 2012; J.D., Earle Mack College of Law, Drexel University (May 2012), per his Texas bar profile. Federal court admission is self-reported as the Southern District of Texas; no public disciplinary history is reported.

Caveat: the tracked case list contains only one underlying matter appearing under several role labels, so the appearance count reflects docket entries in a single case rather than five distinct litigations. Details of that case's resolution and any PTAB participation should be confirmed directly against PACER/PTAB records before reliance.