Joy B. Kete

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Joy B. Kete — patent litigation practice summary

Specialty / focus areas. Kete is a patent and IP litigator at Fish & Richardson whose practice centers on electronics, software, and consumer-technology disputes. Fish's own practice description and her docket reflect work on multi-jurisdictional patent cases in U.S. district courts and at the International Trade Commission, with stated experience in standard-essential patents and in technology areas spanning electrical/computer technology, internet, and telecommunications. Her currently active matters are software/user-interface disputes — Peer Global Inc. v. Apple Inc. (three "selection ring user interface" patents asserted against Apple's iOS 26 "Liquid Glass" design) and Neonode Smartphone LLC v. Apple Inc. (touchscreen "glide" gesture patents) — while her trial work has also reached the medical-device space (Rasmussen Instruments knee-replacement technology). On Law360's firm page her name appears in roughly two dozen matters, mostly patent and Section 101/112 defense work.

Side preference and firm context. The one tracked appearance in this dataset is defense-side: she is lead counsel for Apple in Peer Global Inc. v. Apple Inc. (W.D. Tex., No. 7:26-cv-00033). That is consistent with her broader docket, which is dominated by defense of large operating companies — principally Apple (including ImberaTek LLC v. Apple and MyPort Technologies, Inc. v. Apple, where she worked an Alice/§101 Rule 12(b)(6) motion in D. Del.). She has, however, also appeared on the plaintiff side, including in a patent-owner trial win noted below. She is a principal at Fish & Richardson (elevated effective January 1, 2023); she joined the firm's Boston office as an associate in 2020 from the IP litigation practice at WilmerHale, and she now appears on filings out of Fish's San Diego office and is admitted in California (SBN 355859) and Massachusetts.

Notable cases / outcomes. The most prominent verified result is Rasmussen Instruments LLC v. DePuy Synthes (D. Mass.), where Kete was part of the Fish trial team in a 12-day March 2022 jury trial; the jury found willful infringement of a knee-replacement patent and awarded $20 million, a verdict ALM ranked 23rd overall and 4th among IP matters in its 2022 Northeast Top Verdicts & Settlements. In Neonode Smartphone LLC v. Apple (N.D. Cal., No. 3:21-cv-08872), she is counsel on Apple's written-description invalidity motion under 35 U.S.C. § 112 and on the venue/claim-construction and invalidity-contentions briefing. In the Peer Global matter she is on Apple's defense team against the asserted '878, '712, and '559 patents; the case is early-stage (motions to dismiss/stay/transfer), so no outcome is established.

PTAB / IPR and credentials. Her cases frequently run alongside PTAB proceedings — the Neonode litigation has an IPR and Federal Circuit history involving the asserted '879 patent, and a related IPR petition, IPR2026-00438 (Apple v. Peer Global), was filed in August 2026. That said, I did not find a record confirming Kete personally as counsel of record in a specific IPR/PGR proceeding, so her individual PTAB appearance record should be treated as unverified. Bar/education: J.D., summa cum laude, Suffolk University Law School (2015; lead articles editor, Suffolk University Law Review); B.A., History, Vassar College (2012); admitted in Massachusetts (2015) and California; former judicial intern to Magistrate Judge Judith Dein (D. Mass., 2013); named a Massachusetts Rising Star (2020–2025).