Jeffrey Curtiss Totten

Jeffrey Curtiss Totten is a patent litigation attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, based in Washington, D.C.. His practice primarily encompasses patent and trade secret litigation, post-grant validity challenges, and strategic client counseling. He handles matters in the mechanical and electrical fields, with experience litigating in U.S. district courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Totten also advises manufacturing companies on intellectual property issues, including the impact of additive manufacturing and 3D printing on their portfolios.

Totten has experience representing both patent holders and accused infringers. While the tracked case data shows one appearance on the defendant side in Uber Technologies, Inc. v. X One, Inc., he notably secured a $240 million jury verdict for his client Promptu in a patent infringement lawsuit against Comcast. In the Uber v. X One case, Totten represented X One, Inc. as counsel in an appeal to the Federal Circuit concerning inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. The Federal Circuit ultimately reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision, finding X One's patent claims, related to transmitting location information between mobile devices, unpatentable as obvious.

His practice includes significant involvement in PTAB and IPR proceedings, where he handles oral arguments, prepares petitions and patent owner replies, and coordinates PTAB proceedings with ongoing district court litigation. Totten has also assisted clients with potential derivation proceedings at the PTAB and serves as the Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners Association's U.S. Post-Grant Patent Office Practice Committee. Beyond litigation, he counsels clients on patent inventorship, ownership, derivation, trade secrets, patent prosecution, portfolio management, and strategic planning.