Kalpana Srinivasan

Kalpana Srinivasan is a managing partner at the litigation boutique Susman Godfrey L.L.P., where she specializes in high-stakes intellectual property and technology litigation. Her patent practice focuses on representing plaintiffs in complex disputes involving technologies such as Wi-Fi standards, communications software, and medical analytics. She litigates at the intersection of intellectual property and competition law, and also handles trade secret, copyright, and class action matters. Before her legal career, Srinivasan was a journalist for The Associated Press, covering media and telecommunications policy.

While the provided case list shows a defense-side appearance in Visa USA Inc v. Cortex MCP Inc, public records and her firm profile indicate that her practice is primarily focused on representing plaintiffs. Court filings in that matter clarify that Cortex is the plaintiff asserting its patents, and Srinivasan is representing the patent owner. Her reputation as a "Titan of the Plaintiffs Bar" is built on securing significant victories for patent holders and technology innovators. However, her firm biography and published interviews note that she has experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants.

Srinivasan has served as lead counsel in several notable patent and trade secret cases. She won a $65.7 million jury verdict for Paltalk against Cisco for infringement of patents related to its Webex technology. She also represented the California Institute of Technology in patent litigation against Samsung concerning seminal Wi-Fi patents. In a trade secret and fraud case for HouseCanary, she secured a jury verdict of $706.2 million. Her work on behalf of Cortex MCP against Visa has involved parallel proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), where Visa filed petitions for inter partes review (IPR) against the asserted patents.

Srinivasan earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. from Yale University. After law school, she clerked for Judge Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.