John C. Phillips, Jr.

John C. Phillips, Jr. is an experienced patent litigator focusing on intellectual property disputes, particularly within the District of Delaware. His practice encompasses a range of technologies, including software, mobile communications, augmented reality, and satellite communication systems, as demonstrated by his case involvement.

Phillips currently serves as a Partner and President at Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A. in Wilmington, Delaware, a firm he helped found. His firm's profile notes a specialization in civil litigation, including the representation of defendants in patent disputes, and that he has served as Delaware counsel for numerous companies in patent and trademark litigation. While he appeared as "counsel" for Niantic, Inc. with Fish & Richardson in one matter, his primary patent litigation career and two "local counsel" appearances in tracked cases are with Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall.

Phillips has experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in patent litigation. In his tracked cases, he acted as local counsel defending United Air Lines, Inc. against Cyberfone Systems, LLC, a recognized patent assertion entity. He also represented Anuvu Corp. as local counsel in a plaintiff-side action against Intellectual Ventures I LLC, another prominent patent aggregator. A notable case includes Niantic, Inc. v. ImagineAR, Inc., where the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware dismissed ImagineAR's patent infringement lawsuit, ruling that the asserted patents were invalid for being directed at abstract ideas.

His professional background does not indicate regular appearances in Inter Partes Review (IPR) or other Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings, with publicly available information about his firm primarily highlighting district court litigation. Phillips earned his Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law in 1974. He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1974, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1981, and the U.S. Supreme Court in 1983. He was also admitted in Texas in 1973.