Kathleen Geyer

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Kathleen R. ("Kate") Geyer — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Geyer is a Seattle-based patent litigator at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton whose practice spans federal district court, Section 337 investigations at the International Trade Commission, and post-grant proceedings before the PTAB. Her firm bio groups her work in electronics/computers, medical and surgical devices, health and life sciences, and retail/consumer goods. The tracked dockets and her published case descriptions reflect that breadth: display-cooling systems (Samsung v. Manufacturing Resources International), robotic pool cleaners (Zodiac), spinal-cord neurostimulators (Nevro v. Nalu Medical), orthopedic implants (the Dr. Mark A. Barry matters), and software/consumer products. Her technical background is in physics (MIT), which fits the electronics and mechanical subject matter she tends to handle rather than pharma/chemistry or standard-essential Wi-Fi work — no SEP/FRAND matters appear in her tracked or published record.

Side preference. The tracked data shows 4 plaintiff-side and 2 defendant-side appearances, but the composition is more mixed than the raw counts suggest. Several plaintiff-side entries involve operating companies acting defensively — Starbucks as a declaratory-judgment plaintiff against Valtrus/Key Patent Innovations, and Manufacturing Resources International as a patent owner — while her defendant-side work includes representing Zodiac and Beatbot in competitor patent suits. Her broader public record also includes defending operating companies against NPE/PAE suits (Valve against Symbology Innovations, Rothschild/Patent Asset Management, and VPN Technology Holdings; Red Hat in VPN Technology Holdings v. Red Hat; Apple in Mullen Industries). Net: she litigates both sides rather than specializing as an NPE-side prosecutor or a pure defense counsel, with a meaningful share of work for large operating companies.

Firm context and notable matters. Geyer has been with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton since law school (summer associate in 2018; now a senior associate/counsel in the Seattle office) — no prior law-firm history is reflected in her public record. Before entering practice she worked as a business analyst at SRA International and externed for Judge Kara Stoll on the Federal Circuit and in the ITC's Office of Unfair Import Investigations. Prominent outcomes she has been credited with: a favorable settlement for Nalu Medical in Nevro Corp. v. Nalu Medical on the eve of the Delaware claim-construction hearing and before a PTAB institution decision (Nevro v. Nalu Medical, D. Del.; Nalu v. Nevro, IPR2021-01023); and a favorable pre-trial resolution for Zodiac in the ITC robotic-pool-cleaner investigation, producing a consent order barring Aiper from importing/selling accused products (Inv. No. 337-TA-1326). In the MRI display-cooling dispute, the PTAB found the asserted MRI claims unpatentable in several IPRs, and the Federal Circuit affirmed those decisions on MRI's appeals (Fed. Cir. Nos. 24-2228, 24-2300) — an adverse result for her client that is worth flagging.

PTAB/IPR experience. Geyer does appear in post-grant proceedings with some regularity — as back-up/pro hac vice counsel in Walmart v. Caravan Canopy (IPR2020-01026), on the Nalu IPR, and in the Samsung/MRI IPRs — and her firm bio states she has argued at an IPR hearing through the USPTO's Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP).

Bar and education. Admitted in Washington (2019); also admitted to the Federal Circuit (2021), E.D. Tex., and W.D. Wash. J.D., George Washington University Law School (2019, high honors, Order of the Coif); B.S. in Physics, MIT (2012).

Note on sourcing: the practice description, admissions, and education lines come from Kilpatrick Townsend's own attorney page and Super Lawyers; case outcomes are drawn from firm-published descriptions and PTAB/Federal Circuit records. Note also a separate "Kathleen A. Geyer" appears in USPTO records as an inventor — a different individual from this attorney.