Jennifer A. Hanson

Jennifer A. Hanson — Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith, LLP (Birmingham, AL)

Focus areas. Hanson's tracked patent work is limited to a single matter: Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc. et al., No. 2:13-cv-01106 (N.D. Ala., filed June 12, 2013). That case involved IV's assertion of a portfolio of bank/financial-services and access-control patents (including U.S. Patents 5,745,574, 6,314,409, and 6,826,694, the last titled "High Resolution Access Control") against Compass Bank and a set of other regional banks. She appears in the docket filing pro hac vice applications for out-of-state IV counsel, consistent with a local-counsel role. No web-searchable source describes a distinct technology specialty, and her broader practice at Bainbridge Mims is not documented in the public sources reviewed; her docketed non-patent work at the firm includes commercial and other civil litigation.

Side preference. On the one tracked appearance she is on the plaintiff's side, acting as local counsel for the patent owner/NPE (Intellectual Ventures II). That is a single data point, not evidence of a consistent plaintiff-side or NPE-oriented practice; no defendant-side patent appearances are tracked. Her docketing suggests a general commercial-litigation practice in which patent cases are one component and local-counsel engagements are typical.

Firm context and notable matters. She has practiced at Bainbridge, Mims, Rogers & Smith, where Martindale lists her first as an associate and later as a partner. No prior firms are identified in the sources reviewed. The IV/BBVA Compass case is her most prominent tracked patent matter; the parallel PTAB proceedings against those patents were handled by other counsel (Knobbe Martens for IV; Kutak Rock, Jones Day, and Senniger Powers for the bank petitioners), and I found no record of Hanson appearing in those IPR/CBM proceedings. Note: a Bainbridge Mims attorney named "Jennifer Hanson Wheeler" appears in Roche Diagnostics Corp. v. Priority Healthcare Corp., No. 2:18-cv-01479 (N.D. Ala. 2020), a non-patent matter; whether that is the same person as Jennifer A. Hanson is not confirmed by the sources reviewed.

PTAB/IPR. No PTAB or IPR/PGR appearances by this attorney were found.

Bar/education. Admitted in Alabama (2010); B.S., University of Alabama (2007); J.D., University of Alabama School of Law (2010). Selected for Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum Class 15 (announced December 2019).