Joseph P. Reid

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Joseph P. Reid — patent litigation summary

Specialty / focus. Reid is a first-chair patent litigator whose practice centers on high-technology disputes: software and cloud/network security, semiconductors, wireless networking and standards-related matters (including standard-essential patents and FRAND issues), consumer electronics, image/video/audio processing, medical devices and automotive systems. His academic background (B.S. biology, M.S. physiology) underpins additional life-sciences and medical-technology work. The tracked docket is consistent with that profile — cloud-security and networking patents in Netskope v. Fortinet and wireless/mobile printing technology in the Flexiworld v. Lexmark matters — as are firm and press descriptions of him handling multi-defendant, industry-standard cases.

Side preference. His public bio states he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in district courts, the ITC and the Federal Circuit, and the tracked appearances bear that out (3 plaintiff-side, 5 defendant-side). The plaintiff-side entries are Netskope, Inc. v. Fortinet, Inc., where he represents Netskope asserting its own patents; the defendant-side entries are the Flexiworld Technologies v. Lexmark consolidated litigation, where he defended Lexmark against an NPE asserting wireless-printing patents. In other words, this is not a one-directional NPE/PAE practice — it is operating-company-versus-operating-company and defense-against-NPE work.

Firm context. As of late April/May 2026, Reid is a partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Del Mar, California), joining as one of five partners leading a 15-lawyer IP litigation team that moved from Perkins Coie. He had been a Perkins Coie partner in San Diego/Del Mar from 2014 (rejoining the firm after roughly two years at a boutique IP firm), and previously served as the Del Mar office managing partner. The tracked case entries list him at Perkins Coie, which reflects his affiliation during the periods those matters were filed.

Notable matters and outcomes (verifiable). He had a significant role defending Microsoft against Lucent Technologies and the Multimedia Patent Trust in the trial series that shaped damages law in that dispute and was named among IP Law and Business's "Top 10 Litigation Wins of 2008." He was part of the Perkins Coie trial team that won a $14 million complete jury verdict for Jiaxing Super Lighting against CH Lighting in Judge Albright's court (W.D. Tex., 2022) — liability, willfulness and full requested damages on all three LED-tube-lamp patents. He also appeared for HTC in the Smartflash litigation. Public reporting describes the Netskope/Fortinet dispute as ongoing (N.D. Cal., Case No. 4:25-cv-02360, with related IPR activity), and the Flexiworld/Lexmark matters in the E.D. Ky. resolved in part through a confidential license/settlement reflected in the IPR2023-00846 record. Note that some SEP/FRAND matters described in the Sheppard announcement (e.g., Amazon/Nokia, Amazon/InterDigital) are attributed to the team as a whole, not specifically to Reid.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — he appears regularly in PTAB proceedings. USPTO records list him as back-up counsel on IPR petitions (e.g., a networking-patent petition under Reg. No. 72,317 with the reid-ptab@perkinscoie.com contact), and both his Sheppard and Perkins Coie bios cite inter partes review and broader post-grant experience tied to co-pending district court litigation.

Bar / education. Admitted in California (2000); registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 72,317). J.D., cum laude, Notre Dame Law School; M.S., physiology, UC Davis; B.S., biology with distinction, Duke University. Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Patent Litigation since 2019.