Joseph Andrew Powers

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Joseph Andrew Powers — Duane Morris LLP (Philadelphia) — patent litigation practice summary

Specialty / focus. Powers is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 47,006) with an electrical-engineering background whose litigation work centers on electronics, telecommunications and computer technology rather than life sciences. Verified matters include wireless/telecom patents (firm bio describes Federal Circuit affirmances involving Wi‑Fi and "femtocell" functionality), software and computer-implemented means-plus-function claims, network/cyber-security patents, biometric scanners, wireless mesh communications, parimutuel wagering systems, and mechanical technology (an ITC defense involving injection blow-molding machine controls). His prosecution-side client roster is consistent with that electronics focus — USPTO records list high volumes of filings for OLED/display and semiconductor clients (Universal Display, TSMC), plus Kyocera, ZTE, Alipay, Carl Zeiss, Wright Medical and Rijk Zwaan — though prosecution volume is not a reliable proxy for his litigation practice. No pharma, biologics or Hatch-Waxman work appears in the sourced record.

Side preference. Defense-oriented. The tracked appearance totals show 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance, and the publicly available representative matters are predominantly defense: defending operating companies against NPE/PAE assertions, plus a plaintiff-side wireless-mesh case noted in his firm bio. He is best characterized as a defense-side litigator for technology operating companies, with occasional plaintiff-side patent enforcement.

Firm context. He is a partner at Duane Morris LLP, resident in the firm's Philadelphia office (30 South 17th Street), and the sourced record ties his patent practice to Duane Morris throughout; no prior firm history for his patent litigation career was verified. He is not in-house.

Notable matters. The single tracked case maps to Taasera Licensing LLC v. Fortinet, Inc., part of the consolidated MDL In re Taasera Licensing LLC Patent Litigation (E.D. Tex., No. 2:22-md-03042-JRG), where Powers entered an appearance as counsel for defendant Fortinet in August 2023. Taasera is a Quest Patent Research NPE asserting network-security patents against Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro, Check Point, CrowdStrike and others; Duane Morris appears as defense counsel across several of those matters. His firm bio also claims two Federal Circuit affirmances for a multinational telecommunications client — summary judgment of invalidity of a software patent with means-plus-function limitations (no corresponding algorithms disclosed) and summary judgment of non-infringement of a Wi‑Fi/femtocell patent — as well as a Markman-driven dismissal with prejudice for a biometric scanner manufacturer and a favorable settlement in a wagering-systems case, and participation on a Duane Morris trial team that won a non-infringement verdict in a multi-billion-dollar EDVA patent trial. These results come from his own firm/third-party profile rather than independent press or opinion coverage, so I have not verified the underlying case names or citations.

PTAB / IPR. Yes — he appears regularly in AIA proceedings. USPTO/PTAB records list him on IPR powers of attorney and petitions including IPR2018‑01559, IPR2019‑01324 (Fortinet v. BT Americas, petitioner counsel Duane Morris, institution denied), IPR2023‑00673 (Cisco/Palo Alto/Fortinet v. Lionra) and IPR2026‑00322 (Cisco). His profile also states he has been counsel in numerous IPRs in which the challenged patents were invalidated and that invalidity was affirmed on appeal.

Bar / education. Admitted in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (1999); registered before the USPTO; J.D., Villanova University School of Law (1999, magna cum laude); B.S.E.E., Villanova University (1996, summa cum laude).

Disambiguation note: the sources above consistently identify the Duane Morris Philadelphia IP partner Joseph A. Powers by USPTO Reg. No. 47,006 and his Duane Morris email/address; unrelated web hits for other individuals named Joseph Powers should not be attributed to him. The tracked case list labels his one appearance "Untitled," so the Taasera/Fortinet identification is drawn from the underlying docket document rather than the case list itself.