Jamal Haughton

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Jamal H. Haughton — patent litigation profile (research summary)

Role and context. Haughton is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Charter Communications, Inc., the chief legal officer role he has held since November 6, 2023, succeeding Rick Dykhouse. His patent exposure is that of an in-house GC overseeing a large operating company's litigation portfolio rather than a courtroom advocate: Charter's defense docket is handled by outside counsel (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer appears for the Charter entities in the matters reviewed), with Charter in-house counsel (e.g., Daniel Boglioli, VP & Associate General Counsel) filing supporting declarations. Both tracked appearances are on the defendant side and in an in-house capacity — consistent with his 0-plaintiff / 2-defendant profile. Sources: Charter corporate leadership page; Charter press release (Oct. 10, 2023); CourtListener/PACER dockets.

Technology focus. The tracked matter, Headwater Research LLC v. Charter Communications, Inc. et al. (E.D. Tex., No. 2:25-cv-00906, filed Aug. 27, 2025, before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, consolidated into related Headwater actions), is an NPE assertion over network/device data-monitoring patents — wireless end-user device policy control, differential traffic control policies, and WAN/LAN performance analytics — reflecting Charter's cable/broadband and wireless (Spectrum Mobile) business. This is telecommunications and software/networking patent work, not pharma or mechanical. A second tracked appearance is listed without a case name in the underlying data and could not be independently verified; it likewise shows him as in-house defense.

Prior positions relevant to patent work. Before Charter: EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (2021–2023); SVP and General Counsel of Samsung Electronics America, Inc., U.S. chief legal officer (2016–2021), where he received third-party patent portfolio assertions directed at Samsung; and ten years at Cablevision Systems Corporation, ultimately SVP, Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. He began his career in Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP's corporate practice (M&A, corporate finance, securities). Note that his background is corporate/securities rather than patent litigation, so his patent-litigation footprint is portfolio oversight, not first-chair trial work. Sources: Charter leadership bio; MSG Entertainment press release (Nov. 12, 2021); USPTO/PTAB document showing patent-portfolio correspondence addressed to him as Samsung's GC.

PTAB/IPR experience and outcomes. No record was found of Haughton personally appearing as counsel of record or as a named party representative in IPR/PGR proceedings; treat IPR experience as unverified. Charter itself is an active IPR petitioner against NPE patents (e.g., IPR2024-01287 against Iarnach Technologies, IPR2024-01379 against Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, and joinder in IPR2024-00322/Touchstream Technologies-related proceedings), but those petitions are signed by outside counsel. No verdict, Federal Circuit decision, or settlement attributable to Haughton was found. Public reporting does note that Headwater, the plaintiff suing Charter, previously won a $279 million Samsung verdict and a $175 million Verizon verdict (later settled) on related patents — context only, not Charter outcomes; the Charter action remains pending.

Bar and education. J.D., Yale Law School; B.A., University of Michigan. Specific state bar admissions could not be confirmed from the sources reviewed and are omitted. (Equilar lists a Darden School of Business/UVA affiliation; it is not corroborated by Charter's own bio and should be treated as unconfirmed.)