Jennifer Parker Ainsworth

Jennifer Parker Ainsworth is a highly experienced patent litigator with a focus on intellectual property disputes, particularly within the technology and electronic manufacturing sectors. Her practice encompasses a range of complex litigation matters, with specific experience in cases involving networking and telecommunications technologies, such as mesh Wi-Fi, SD-WAN, Forward Error Correction, and VoIP collaboration.

Ainsworth operates on both the plaintiff and defendant sides of patent litigation, though her tracked appearances show a slight inclination towards representing plaintiffs, having served as lead counsel or local counsel in three plaintiff-side cases and local counsel in two defendant-side cases. She is a Co-Managing Shareholder at Wilson, Robertson & VanDeventer, P.C., based in Tyler, Texas, where she has practiced since 2001. Prior to this, she was an associate at Beck, Redden & Secrest, L.L.P. in Houston.

A notable case in her portfolio is Dynamic Mesh Networks, Inc. et al. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas, where she served as local counsel for the plaintiff. This patent infringement case, involving mesh networking and SD-WAN patents, was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice by the plaintiff just 59 days after filing. Ainsworth possesses extensive first-chair trial experience in both federal and state courts, and her litigation acumen is recognized by her induction as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

There is no information readily available to suggest regular involvement in PTAB or IPR proceedings. Ainsworth earned her B.A. (with honors) and J.D. from the University of Texas in 1988 and 1992, respectively, and was admitted to the Texas bar in 1992. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Western, and Southern Districts of Texas, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.