Jeffrey H. Price

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Jeffrey H. Price — patent litigation (Counsel, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP, New York)

Focus areas. Price's practice is patent litigation in the federal district courts and before the PTAB, with a technical center of gravity in electronics and networking. His firm biography lists semiconductor fabrication and packaging, flash memory, nanotechnology, audio processing, digital imaging, solar power, vehicle control and braking systems, telecommunications, and mobile/desktop software. That tracks the tracked docket, which clusters in network security and packet filtering (Centripetal Networks), cellular/network-function-virtualization telecom (Lemko), sleep-therapy and home sleep-testing devices (Cleveland Medical Devices / ResMed), and video/consumer software (ToutVirtual). He also prepares and prosecutes applications and drafts freedom-to-operate opinions, and he came to the law with an engineering background — semiconductor device engineer at IBM, plus research in optical/photonic devices.

Side preference. The tracked docket is 20 defendant-side against 12 plaintiff-side, but those labels mostly reflect PTAB petitioner versus patent-owner designations rather than conventional district-court positioning. In substance, Price appears most often for the patent owner resisting validity challenges — as backup or lead counsel for Centripetal Networks, Cleveland Medical Devices, Arbor Global Strategies, Gunter & Zimmerman, W&Wsens Devices, and Lemko — rather than as trial counsel for operating-company defendants. Where he does appear in district court on the defense side (e.g., Cleveland Medical Devices in the ResMed actions), it is typically because the client's patents are being challenged. He is more an IPR/patent-owner specialist than a courtroom-first defense litigator: most tracked roles are styled backup or back-up counsel.

Firm context. He joined Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, where he was Special Counsel, and remained with the firm through its 2025 combination with Herbert Smith Freehills, now Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (US) LLP, where he is listed as Counsel in New York. Banner & Witcoff appears once in the tracked data as co-counsel on the Centripetal Federal Circuit appeals, not as a prior employer.

Notable matters. He is part of the Kramer Levin / HSF Kramer team that has represented Centripetal Networks against Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Keysight in the long-running Eastern District of Virginia litigation over the '856 network-threat-detection patent and its IPRs, including Federal Circuit appeals. The most significant published result in that family is Palo Alto Networks v. Centripetal Networks, No. 23-2027 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 22, 2025), where the court vacated the Board's final written decision holding claims 1, 24, and 25 unpatentable for failure to adequately consider Centripetal's copying evidence and remanded — a favorable appellate outcome for his client. Other appeals in the same family were affirmed under Rule 36 (Centripetal v. Keysight, Nos. 24-2372/2373, June 9, 2026; No. 24-1930, Jan. 12, 2026). He is lead counsel for Cleveland Medical Devices in ResMed Corp. v. Cleveland Medical Devices, No. 23-cv-02221 (N.D. Ohio) and related proceedings; CleveMed's own July 2026 announcement reported PTAB outcomes favorable to it in five of the six ResMed IPRs (four final written decisions, one denial of institution, one loss) — that characterization comes from the client, not from a court or firm source. He also appears on Lemko's IPR and appellate teams in its dispute with Microsoft and Affirmed Networks, where results were mixed: the Board found no challenged claims of the '414 patent unpatentable (IPR2023-00529), while the Federal Circuit affirmed invalidation of claims of a separate Lemko patent in April 2026.

PTAB / IPR experience. This is the core of his practice. Docket Navigator named him a top IPR practitioner in 2015, 2016, and 2020, and Patexia has recognized him among "Best Performing Attorneys: PTAB" for 2020–2023 and 2025; Kramer Levin was separately noted by Docket Navigator for having the lowest IPR institution rate for patent owners. He has appeared in IPRs involving Centripetal, Arbor Global Strategies (Samsung), Gunter & Zimmerman (GOMACO), W&Wsens Devices, CleveMed, and Lemko.

Bar and education. Admitted in New York (2013) and registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 69,141, 2012); admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. J.D., magna cum laude, Fordham University School of Law (2012); M.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2006); B.E.E., cum laude, University of Delaware (2005).