John R. Gibson

I'll research this attorney's background and verify the tracked cases.

Let me verify the tracked cases and check for PTAB/IPR experience.

John R. Gibson — Duane Morris LLP (Atlanta) is an IP and commercial litigator whose patent practice centers on telecommunications and networking technology. Duane Morris describes him as team lead for the firm's Technology, Media and Telecom industry group, with patent matters involving fiber optics, wireless LAN systems, cellular telephony (including LTE and 5G standard-essential patents), VoIP, network security/intrusion systems, webmail, cable and set-top boxes, wireless chipsets, and optical networking. The three tracked matters fit that profile: two Centripetal Networks v. Cisco Systems cases (network security/cyber technology, E.D. Va.) and Velocity Communication Technologies v. NETGEAR (D. Del., filed July 2025), part of a multi-defendant campaign asserting a pool of 11 Wi-Fi 6 / IEEE 802.11ax patents (OFDMA, MU-MIMO, beamforming, etc.) against device makers, carriers, and their vendors.

Side preference. All three tracked appearances are defendant-side (0 plaintiff / 3 defendant), and the searchable record reinforces that: his name appears almost exclusively for operating companies and product manufacturers — Cisco, Ericsson, NETGEAR, SonicWall, Palo Alto Networks, and Comcast/other network operators — rather than for NPEs/PAEs. He is described in the trade press as a defense-side trial and damages lawyer, not a plaintiff's-side assertion lawyer.

Firm context and notable matters. Gibson has been a Duane Morris partner since his promotion in January 2018; before that he was an associate at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (2007–2011) and clerked for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema (E.D. Va., 2006–2007). His most prominent tracked case, Centripetal Networks v. Cisco, produced a $1.9B (later reported as ~$2.75B) willful-infringement judgment in 2020 that the Federal Circuit vacated in 2022 on the trial judge's recusal issue and that Cisco ultimately defeated on remand (non-infringement finding in late 2023, no third trial in 2024); Gibson's firm bio lists him among Cisco's counsel and notes he handled damages and willfulness issues on appeal. He also handled damages/apportionment work for SonicWall in Finjan LLC v. SonicWall, where exclusion of the plaintiff's apportionment expert was affirmed, 84 F.4th 963 (Fed. Cir. 2023), and represented Cisco in Oyster Optics v. Coriant (E.D. Tex.), where the plaintiff dropped six of seven patents and summary judgment of non-infringement on the last was affirmed on appeal.

PTAB/IPR. Duane Morris maintains a dedicated IPR/PTAB group (ranked a top petitioner firm by Unified Patents' institutional index, per firm materials), and Gibson's matters routinely involve parallel IPR activity — his name appears on Cisco's E.D. Va. filings tied to the Centripetal IPRs and related stay motions. I did not find sources confirming he personally serves as lead counsel on PTAB petitions, so his individual PTAB appearance record should be verified against USPTO PTAB records rather than assumed.

Bar and education. Admitted in Georgia (2006) and Virginia; also admitted to the Federal Circuit, Fourth Circuit, and D.C. Circuit. J.D., magna cum laude, University of Alabama School of Law (2006, Order of the Coif, Alabama Law Review senior editor); B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003). Note: he is not the late Eighth Circuit Judge John R. Gibson, nor DLA Piper litigator John S. Gibson.