Jonathan Stroud

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Jonathan Stroud — Unified Patents, LLC (in-house; COO & Chief Legal Officer / General Counsel)

Specialty / focus areas. Stroud's patent work is concentrated in post-grant proceedings rather than conventional district court litigation. His technical background is biomedical engineering (he examined implantable medical devices at the USPTO), and the tracked Unified Patents challenges span a wide range of asserted-patent subject matter: semiconductor and display technology (Samsung Display, Marlin Semiconductor, Advanced Integrated Circuit Process, LS Cable & Systems), wireless/streaming and media-delivery patents (Personalized Media Communications, CardWare, MYPORT, Avant Location Technologies), consumer and mechanical goods (Baby Jogger, Monahan Products d/b/a UPPAbaby), and solar (First Solar). Firm and conference bios describe his focus as PTAB, district court, and appellate litigation, contracting, corporate matters, and settlement, with additional coverage of licensing, pooling, and amicus/policy work.

Side preference. He is almost exclusively a petitioner/plaintiff-side actor: 46 of 48 tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, with only two defendant-side entries (including VideoLabs Inc. v. Unified Patents). This reflects his employer's business model rather than plaintiff's-bar practice — Unified Patents is a membership organization that files IPRs and related administrative challenges against patents it contends are being asserted by NPEs/PAEs against operating companies. In other words, he works against assertion entities on behalf of the operating-company community, not as counsel prosecuting or asserting patents for a patent owner.

Firm context. Stroud has been at Unified Patents for roughly a decade, holding successive titles tracked in the docket data as Chief IP Counsel, General Counsel, and now COO & Chief Legal Officer. Before Unified he was a patent litigator at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, where he worked on some of the earliest America Invents Act post-grant proceedings, and before that a patent examiner at the USPTO. He also teaches post-grant Patent Office proceedings at American University Washington College of Law.

Notable cases / outcomes / PTAB experience. He appears regularly before the PTAB and has signed numerous IPR petitions and powers of attorney under USPTO Reg. No. 72,518 — Unified has filed well over 150 IPR petitions since 2012. Prominent tracked matters include Unified Patents v. Personalized Media Communications (encryption/interactive-TV patents), Unified Patents v. Shipping & Transit, and challenges involving Samsung Display, First Solar, and Malikie Innovations. Unified's most closely watched dispute in this period concerned real-party-in-interest practice: in Unified Patents, LLC v. MemoryWeb, LLC, IPR2021-01413, the Board found Apple and Samsung to be unnamed RPIs, a determination Director Vidal vacated on Director Review in May 2023 — an issue Unified has continued to litigate, including in the Federal Circuit and in a 2026 Supreme Court brief in opposition in Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. v. Unified Patents, LLC. Note that I could not verify case-specific outcomes (institution/denial, final-written-decision results, or settlements) for most individual tracked entries from the sources retrieved.

Bar / education. Registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 72,518); J.D. with honors, American University Washington College of Law; B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University; M.A., Print Journalism, University of Southern California. His state bar admission is not confirmed in the sources reviewed.