Jennifer Haltom Doan

Jennifer Haltom Doan is a founding partner at Haltom & Doan, a Texarkana-based trial and appellate firm known for its intellectual property disputes practice. Her patent litigation work primarily involves defending operating companies in cases related to technology, telecommunications, software, networking, and consumer goods. She has significant experience acting as lead and local trial counsel in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, a common venue for patent cases.

Ms. Doan exclusively represents defendants in her tracked patent litigation appearances. Her firm's intellectual property practice handles patent infringement and validity claims for high-profile companies, often in the technology and entertainment sectors. Notable cases where she served as counsel include Athena Security, LLP v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. Netflix, Inc., and Atlas Global Technologies LLC v. TP-Link Corporation Limited et al. She notably secured complete defense verdicts in patent infringement cases for Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, and Yahoo! Inc., and has also achieved dismissals in patent cases for lack of standing or failure to prove patentable subject matter. In Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., she was part of a trial team that convinced a jury that HPE did not infringe a "Power over Ethernet" patent and that the patent itself was invalid, despite the patent having survived two inter partes reviews. In Personalized Media Communications, LLC v. Netflix, Inc., a six-patent streaming dispute, the case was dismissed with prejudice after a negotiated settlement.

While her firm's profile mentions handling complex litigation across various areas including intellectual property, product liability, and antitrust, her patent litigation focus is distinctly on the defense of technology companies. Her involvement in the HPE case, where the patent survived IPRs, suggests familiarity with PTAB proceedings, though direct appearances in IPR/PGR filings were not explicitly found in the search results.

Ms. Doan earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in finance, summa cum laude, from Abilene Christian University, and her Juris Doctor degree, with honors, from the University of Texas School of Law. She is licensed to practice in Texas and Arkansas and appears in all federal courts in both states, as well as before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Eighth, and Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. She is double board-certified in Civil Trial Law and Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.