Jacqueline Groves Baker

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Jacqueline Groves Baker — patent litigation summary

Focus areas. Baker is a Dallas-based litigator whose practice is broader than patents alone. Norton Rose Fulbright's own biography describes her as a commercial litigator handling "complex commercial and intellectual property matters," including patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, copyright, contract and fraud disputes, with client industries listed as manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare and aviation. Her tracked patent work clusters in network security and data networking: all three tracked appearances arise out of the Centripetal Networks–Palo Alto Networks dispute over patents covering rule-based detection of threats in encrypted traffic and correlation of packets across network boundaries (relayed over Wi-Fi/network infrastructure). Firm-published results also place her on a defense team that won summary judgment invalidating a British Telecommunications patent asserted against Match Group.

Side preference. Her tracked record is exclusively defense-side: 0 plaintiff-side appearances against 3 defendant-side. That matches the pattern of an operating-company defense practice — she represents Palo Alto Networks against infringement claims brought by a smaller cybersecurity patent holder/licensor, and has defended (not asserted) patents in other published matters. There is no track record here of NPE/PAE-side assertion or of plaintiff-side patent prosecution work.

Firm context. She has been at Norton Rose Fulbright US in Dallas since 2018, joining as an associate in the disputes group; no prior law-firm history appears in the sources reviewed, so her pre-2018 career is not documented. She is listed as a Norton Rose Fulbright lawyer in the Texas bar's registered records, so the firm affiliation is consistent across sources.

Notable matters and outcomes. Her most prominent tracked matter is Centripetal Networks v. Palo Alto Networks (E.D. Va.), where she is identified as trial counsel for the defense. The jury returned a $151.5 million verdict for Centripetal in January 2024, finding all four asserted Palo Alto Networks firewall patents infringed; the court later granted Palo Alto judgment as a matter of law of non-infringement as to the '437 patent and reduced the award (Nov. 2024). The same dispute generated significant PTAB and Federal Circuit activity — the Federal Circuit vacated a Board final written decision on the '856 patent in Centripetal Networks, LLC v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc., No. 2023-2027 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 22, 2025) (recusal and copying-evidence issues), and previously vacated and remanded on a motivation-to-combine analysis in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. v. Centripetal Networks, LLC, No. 2023-1636 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 16, 2024). Her docketed role in those appellate/IPR proceedings specifically is not confirmed by the sources I located — appellate briefing on 2023-2027 was led by other firms — and one tracked docket, Palo Alto Networks, Inc. v. Centripetal Networks, Inc., is styled with Palo Alto as plaintiff; I could not verify from public sources what that specific action was. Her verified IPR-adjacent work is therefore best described as defense-side district court litigation in a dispute with parallel PTAB proceedings, not as a documented record of personally filing or arguing IPR/PGR petitions.

Bar / education. Licensed in Texas (2018); JD, University of Texas School of Law (2018); BA, Political Science, Texas A&M University (2015). No federal district court or Federal Circuit admissions are listed in her Texas bar record, and no USPTO registration number was found, so patent-bar status is unconfirmed.

Note: multiple attorneys named "Jacqueline/Jacqueline G. Baker" appear in litigation databases, including a Greenspoon Marder listing; the sources used here match on the Norton Rose Fulbright Dallas bio and Texas bar number 24109609.