Jenny C. Wu

Jenny C. Wu — patent litigation practice summary

Specialty / focus areas. Wu is a patent trial and appellate litigator whose practice spans a broad technical range rather than a single niche. Her firm biography lists biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, mobile phone operating systems and software, online content management, web services, GPS devices, LEDs, digital imaging, wearable fitness, computer animation, and financial services; other bios add natural-language processing, targeted advertising, recombinant technology, and next-generation sequencing. Her tracked matters are all in the digital-imaging / aerial-roof-measurement space, and other reported engagements involve consumer GPS and wearable devices, so the pattern is more hardware/software and life-sciences patent defense than a single vertical.

Side preference. Her tracked docket is defense-side: 3 of 3 appearances for the defendant, all representing Nearmap US (and affiliates) in the EagleView/Pictometry dispute. Her bios describe her as handling "both sides of the 'v'" and she has appeared as patent owner in at least one IPR, but publicly verifiable litigation appearances skew heavily toward defending operating companies. She also has plaintiff-side and PTAB experience at the counsel level (e.g., Twitter defending against PARC; Novo Nordisk as patent owner), consistent with a defense-leaning but not exclusively defense practice.

Firm context. Wu is a partner at Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP (New York), a patent litigation boutique founded in November 2022; she was elected partner effective July 1, 2024. Before the boutique, she practiced at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where she appeared on Garmin, Twitter, Word to Info, and other patent matters alongside current firm partners. Note: the firm has two similarly named attorneys — founding partner Jennifer H. Wu and Jenny C. Wu — who are distinct lawyers.

Notable cases / outcomes. Her tracked matters are consolidated around Eagle View Technologies, Inc. v. Nearmap US, Inc. (D. Utah, No. 2:21-cv-00283), where she represented Nearmap, and the related Nearmap US, Inc. v. Eagle View Technologies filings and IPRs (including IPR2022-01009). The Federal Circuit's 2025 opinion in Eagle View Techs., Inc. v. Nearmap US, Inc., No. 24-1488, affirmed the Board's determination in Nearmap's favor on the appealed claim-construction and anticipation issues; press reporting also indicates the parties reached a settlement resolving the Utah litigation. Earlier, at Paul Weiss, she was on the Garmin defense team in Pacing Technologies v. Garmin (summary judgment of non-infringement), the Silver State Intellectual Technologies case (jury finding of invalidity), and the Garmin/Navico Section 337 appeal to the Federal Circuit. Results in the most recent matters (e.g., the Suunto v. Garmin case, where she is on Garmin's defense team) are not yet resolved.

PTAB / IPR experience. She appears regularly in post-grant proceedings, including as back-up counsel for Twitter in IPR2021-01398 (PARC) and for Novo Nordisk as patent owner in IPR2023-00724 (Mylan), as well as on the Nearmap IPRs. Filings list her as appearing pro hac vice, which suggests she is not registered with the USPTO; that is not confirmed in available sources.

Bar / education. Admitted in New York, the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., E.D. Michigan, and W.D. Wisconsin. She clerked for (now Chief) Judge Kimberly A. Moore on the Federal Circuit and holds a B.A. in Human Biology and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford, plus a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.