Jennifer Rea Deneault

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Jennifer Rea Deneault — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Deneault (who goes by "Jenna") is a generalist patent litigator whose practice spans both life sciences and technology. Her firm biography and Benchmark Litigation profile describe matters "ranging from small molecules and biologics to software and hardware," and she handles patent disputes from trial through appeal in district courts, the ITC, the Federal Circuit, and the PTAB. Her tracked matters are in geospatial/aerial roof-imaging technology (the EagleView–Nearmap dispute). Her firm's recent announcements also place her on the lead counsel teams for 10x Genomics and Stanford University in Delaware single-cell sequencing litigation and for Amicus Therapeutics in a Hatch-Waxman matter, and she has spoken publicly on Section 112 in ANDA and BPCIA cases. Her technical background is chemistry/engineering (B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell) and she was a USPTO patent examiner focusing on battery and fuel cell applications.

Side preference. The tracked data shows a purely defense-side profile (0 plaintiff, 3 defendant). All three appearances are in the EagleView–Nearmap matters, where she represents defendant Nearmap US, Inc. — i.e., she defends an operating company accused of infringement. Her PTAB work for Nearmap (as petitioner challenging EagleView's patents) is the one offensive posture, and her 10x Genomics/Stanford role reportedly places her on a plaintiff-side lead counsel team, so the defense tilt in the tracker reflects the cases captured rather than an absolute limitation.

Firm context. She is a partner at Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP in New York, a firm focused on complex patent litigation across life sciences, technology, and telecommunications. She joined the firm as counsel and was promoted to partner effective July 1, 2024. Before Groombridge Wu, a 2022 NYIPLA event listing identifies her as an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (this prior-firm detail is reasonably but not exclusively sourced). She also served as a law clerk to Judge Robert W. Schroeder III in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and as a judicial fellow/federal intern in Delaware, the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims, and the ITC.

Notable cases, PTAB, and bar/education. Her most prominent tracked matter is the EagleView–Nearmap dispute (EagleView Technologies, Inc. v. Nearmap US, Inc., No. 2:21-cv-00283, D. Utah, and related IPRs). On the appellate side, the Federal Circuit issued a nonprecedential decision in Eagle View Technologies, Inc. v. Nearmap US, Inc., No. 24-1488 (2026), affirming the Board's construction of the "calculate a pitch"/"determine a pitch" limitations and rejecting EagleView's accuracy arguments. On the PTAB side, the related Nearmap IPR challenges against EagleView's patents (e.g., IPR2022-00734, IPR2022-01009, IPR2024-00729) were largely unsuccessful — the Board found the challenged claims not unpatentable on secondary-considerations grounds in one decision (later vacated and remanded on Director review), and the PTAB denied institution on others. She appears regularly on PTAB matters and speaks on IPR/PGR/CBM practice; her firm was a 2026 finalist for Life Sciences PTAB Firm of the Year. Admissions: New York, the Federal Circuit, and the E.D. of Virginia; J.D. with honors, George Washington University Law School (2014).

Note: Some background items (prior firm, specific case outcomes) are drawn from firm news pages, Benchmark Litigation, and Federal Circuit/PTAB filings; verify any outcome characterization against the dockets before relying on it.