Kal K. Shah

Let me search for details on the tracked cases and any PTAB/IPR appearances.

Let me verify a few remaining details: Shah's IPR counsel roles and the Feit-Nichia defense verdict.

Kal K. Shah — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Practice focus and side. Kal K. Shah (full name: Kalpesh K. Shah) is a partner in Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff's Chicago office and chairs the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He litigates patents across a broad technology range — lighting/LED circuits and systems, medical devices, bioengineering, computer science and internet applications, semiconductors, wireless technologies, and mechanical devices — plus copyright, trademark, trade secret, and commercial disputes. His firm materials describe a career spent on "both sides of the 'v.'" He has led defense work for operating companies (Abbott/St. Jude Medical, Cooper Lighting, Teradata, and NPE suits against a consumer-electronics maker) and plaintiff-side enforcement. The two tracked appearances are both plaintiff-side, but they are not NPE/PAE enforcement: in each he represents Feit Electric, a commercial LED-bulb manufacturer, asserting its own white-filament LED patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,604,678) against competitors. His overall practice skews toward representing operating companies on both offense and defense.

Firm context. Shah began his career at Kirkland & Ellis, rising from associate to partner in its IP and commercial litigation departments, then practiced at Thompson Coburn and Locke Lord before joining Benesch in 2016 as chair of its patent litigation group. A former Abbott Laboratories engineer with a bioengineering/chemistry background, he previously taught patent litigation as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Notable matters. The tracked cases are Feit Electric Co. v. Ledvance, LLC (E.D. Ky., filed Feb. 2024), where Shah appeared as lead trial counsel on Feit's infringement claims against Sylvania-brand LED filament bulbs, and Feit Electric Co. v. Elong International USA, Inc. (N.D. Tex., filed May 2024), where he served as out-of-state counsel; the Elong matter ended in a joint dismissal without prejudice (per PatSnap's case summary, Jan. 2026). Web-search-verified highlights from his Benesch bio include a full defense jury verdict for Feit against Nichia's LED patent claims in the Central District of California (Law360, Jan. 2023: "Jury Clears Feit of Infringing Nichia LED Light Patent") and summary-judgment dismissal of catheter-method suits against Abbott/St. Jude Medical (Law360, 2021). His firm materials also cite a $50M+ jury verdict for a medical-imaging client (PET-scanner scintillation crystals) and a $17M plaintiff verdict for Gamon against Campbell's; these are firm-bio representations I could not independently verify.

PTAB/IPR experience. Shah's own litigation is frequently intertwined with PTAB proceedings. The two tracked Feit cases run parallel to IPRs on the '678 patent — PTAB instituted IPR2024-01357 (Savant/GE Lighting and Ledvance) in March 2025 and IPR2025-00260 in June 2025 — though Benesch's PTAB filings for Feit are signed by colleague Charles McMahon, so Shah's personal counsel-of-record role in those IPRs is not confirmed. His Benesch bio separately credits him with defending a surfing-simulator manufacturer in bet-the-company patent litigation, "related inter partes review proceedings," and Federal Circuit appeals, indicating hands-on IPR/appellate experience.

Bar and education. J.D., cum laude, Loyola University Chicago School of Law (2001); B.S. in bioengineering with a chemistry minor, University of Illinois (1995); Illinois bar; registered patent attorney before the USPTO; admitted to the Federal, Seventh, and Ninth Circuit bars and multiple district courts.