Jason Shapiro

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Jason M. Shapiro — Devlin Law Firm (Wilmington, DE) · Registered patent attorney, Reg. No. 35,354 · 2 tracked patent appearances (1 plaintiff, 1 defendant), both as lead counsel

Focus areas. Shapiro's practice centers on patent litigation and AIA post-grant proceedings, with a technical bent toward mechanical and electromechanical subject matter — consistent with his JHU engineering background. His docketed and firm-listed matters span semiconductor manufacturing (CMP pad dressers in the Samsung/Sung dispute), wireless/telecom standards and infrastructure (Stellar v. Motorola, Rembrandt Wireless, Fractus, Woodbury Wireless), optical-disc storage (LG v. Toshiba Samsung Storage), memory bus and touch-sensor technology (Cypress v. LG), laboratory instrumentation (BlueCatBio v. Yantai Ausbio), power-management computing (Graphite Charging ex parte reexam), and consumer/mechanical products — the "Flippy" media-support pillow in Happy Products v. Ontel and farm equipment in J&M Mfg. v. Unverferth.

Side preference. The tracked docket is evenly split, and his verifiable recent work runs in both directions but is currently weighted toward patent owners/plaintiffs. He is lead counsel for Happy Products (patent owner and plaintiff in D.N.J.) and for Stellar in the Motorola IPRs; Devlin's own representative-case list has him on the patent-owner side in IPRs involving Rembrandt, Fractus, Pantech, and Woodbury Wireless. His earlier career included defense-side work for operating companies (e.g., Disney and LG in Patent Harbor). "Both sides, with a present patent-owner/assertion emphasis" is the fair characterization.

Firm context. A partner at Devlin Law Firm since 2023; he has worked in IP since 1991. Before Devlin he was a member at Rothwell Figg Ernst & Manbeck (DC), a partner at Washington, DC IP boutiques, and in-house senior IP counsel at Northrop Grumman's Electronic Systems sector; he began as a patent advisor to the Army Research Laboratory with USPTO examiner training. Listed in IAM Patent 1000. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and Maryland, before the Federal Circuit, and is a registered patent attorney; the firm notes he is not admitted in Delaware (Delaware matters are handled pro hac vice or with local counsel). Education: J.D. cum laude, University of Baltimore (1994); B.S. Engineering Mechanics (1986) and M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins — the M.S. year is reported as 1987 by Devlin and 1988 by earlier firm/Martindale bios.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. He is a regular PTAB practitioner (lead counsel in numerous IPRs/PGRs, plus ex parte reexamination work), and the most prominent public result is Motorola Solutions, Inc. v. Stellar, LLC (IPR2024-01205, -01284, -01285, -01313, -01314), where he was lead counsel for patent owner Stellar. Acting Director Stewart granted Director Review, vacated institution, and denied IPR in March and May 2025 under the Fintiv factors, holding a Sotera stipulation did not outweigh the advanced parallel district court case; the Federal Circuit denied Motorola's mandamus petitions in November 2025 — a widely cited decision on post-rescission discretionary denial. In Happy Products v. Ontel (D.N.J. No. 2:24-cv-09819), Judge Padin's November 13, 2025 opinion allowed the patent and trade dress claims to proceed past a motion to dismiss, and Ontel's IPR of U.S. Pat. RE48,479 (IPR2025-01536) was denied institution on February 10, 2026 on § 314(a) discretionary grounds. He also represented the patent owner in BlueCatBio MA v. Yantai Ausbio Laboratories (Fed. Cir. No. 2022-1450, 2023), on appeal from a PTAB decision, and in PGR2020-00051.

Caveats: In the CMP-matter caption Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al. v. Chien-Min Sung (E.D. Tex. No. 4:23-cv-752 with IPR2024-00533/534/535), the tracked docket lists Shapiro as lead counsel on the defendant side; press reporting indicates Samsung obtained PTAB invalidation of the asserted CMP patents and the dispute ended in a settlement terminated at the Federal Circuit in March 2026, but the sources I reviewed do not identify which party Devlin represented under that caption — worth confirming before relying on it. This profile is for Jason M. Shapiro of Devlin Law Firm; a Maryland criminal-defense attorney named Jason A. Shapiro is a different person.