Jessica Leann Andersen Marks

Jessica Leann Andersen Marks — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Marks's practice centers on AIA post-grant challenges to standards-essential and NPE-held patents, particularly in video coding and wireless standards. Her tracked matters involve video codec SEPs (HEVC/VVC, intra-prediction, streaming/HTTP adaptive streaming), Dolby's codec licensing portfolio, and Wi-Fi (OFDMA/Wi-Fi 6) patents. Unified Patents' own bios describe earlier work spanning electrical, business-method, and biological technologies — video surveillance, Blu-ray players, image processing, AI, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals — reflecting her pre-2020 bio/pharma-plus-electrical practice.

Side and posture. All four tracked appearances are in-house roles, and the 2-plaintiff/2-defendant split is misleading at first glance: Marks is patent challenger side throughout. As in-house counsel at Unified Patents, LLC — a member-funded defensive aggregator that files IPRs, PGRs, and ex parte reexaminations rather than litigating infringement — her "plaintiff" appearances are Unified's petitions (e.g., Unified Patents v. Dolby, Unified Patents v. Ideahub), and her "defendant" appearances are the mirror-image Federal Circuit appeals in which Unified is appellee after a patent owner challenges the Board's decision. She does not appear to prosecute for NPEs or to defend operating companies in district court litigation.

Firm context. Marks joined Unified Patents in April 2019 as Senior Patent Counsel and has been described more recently as SEP & Foreign Managing Counsel (that title appears on a third-party org-chart profile and is not confirmed by a primary source). Before Unified she spent roughly a decade (Nov. 2010–Mar. 2019) at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, handling post-grant proceedings, district court cases, ITC investigations, prosecution, licensing, and freedom-to-operate opinions. She also served as a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School (2014–2017).

Notable matters and outcomes. In Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. v. Unified Patents, LLC (Fed. Cir. No. 23-2110), the Board's final written decision held Unified failed to prove any challenged claim unpatentable; Dolby then appealed the Board's refusal to adjudicate its real-party-in-interest challenge, and the Federal Circuit held Dolby lacked Article III standing, leaving the merits loss intact. Dolby's Supreme Court cert petition on the RPI/§ 314(d) questions was denied on June 22, 2026. On the Ideahub side, Unified prevailed on the merits: the Board found all challenged claims unpatentable in IPR2020-00702 ('849 patent), IPR2020-01338 ('562 streaming patent), and PGR2022-00044 ('274 patent), and the Federal Circuit affirmed (No. 2022-1160, Feb. 2023; and a Rule 36 summary affirmance on April 10, 2026 in No. 24-1684). She is also credited as in-house counsel on Unified's EPO Board of Appeals win revoking Dolby's EP 3675491 (VVC, July 2025) and on Chinese invalidation filings against Dolby codec patents.

PTAB/IPR experience and credentials. Post-grant practice is effectively her entire docket: she is a named petitioner's counsel across numerous IPRs, PGRs, and ex parte reexaminations before the PTAB, plus foreign opposition/revocation work at the EPO and in China, and has appeared as counsel of record in Federal Circuit appeals. Bar: admitted in Virginia (2010) and registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 67,451). Education: J.D., University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (2010); M.B.E. (Bioethics) and B.A. in Biology, University of Pennsylvania.

Note: her current Unified Patents title and any post-2025 role changes could not be fully verified from primary sources; the Finnegan dates, bar admission, registration number, and case outcomes above are drawn from Unified Patents announcements, PTAB/USPTO filings, Federal Circuit dockets and opinions, and Federal Circuit Blog.