Kathryn E. Albanese

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Kathryn E. Albanese — Patent Litigation Profile

Focus areas. Albanese's practice centers on complex patent litigation spanning consumer electronics and wireless standards, software, medical devices, and Hatch-Waxman/ANDA pharmaceutical work. Public dockets place her on Wi-Fi and 4G/5G standards-essential patent disputes (ASUS Technology Licensing v. Samsung, where Samsung counterclaimed on Wi-Fi patent 9,913,313), LED technology at the ITC, 3D-vision robotics software, aerospace component technology, and e-book/consumer hardware. Her technical background is in physics and medical physics, which aligns with the electronics- and device-heavy docket. She also handles trademark, trade dress, and trade secret matters alongside patents.

Side preference. She is overwhelmingly defense-side. The tracked dataset shows 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance, and that skew is confirmed by public filings: she has appeared for Samsung (E.D. Tex. and PTAB), eBay, Rakuten Kobo, Teva, Meta, Satco, and Charles Schwab Bank, and represented a daily fantasy sports company (PrizePicks) in a patent enforcement and trade secret action. No plaintiff/NPE-side patent assertions by her appear in the available record. Note that the authoritative case list contains only a single unidentified defendant-side entry, so the tracked counts materially understate her actual volume — Law360's firm-attorney page lists roughly 23 matters for her.

Firm context. She is in Greenberg Traurig's New York office (One Vanderbilt Avenue) as a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Her pre-firm experience includes a 2022–2023 clerkship with Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, plus a law-school externship with Judge Richard G. Andrews in the District of Delaware — both high-volume patent venues. (Some sources list her title as Associate; the tracked data labels her Counsel. The firm's own biography and Best Lawyers entries place her as an associate recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch 2026.)

Notable matters. Pop Top Corp. v. Rakuten Kobo (N.D. Cal.) — summary judgment of non-infringement for Rakuten Kobo, a win that carried through to a 2025 Federal Circuit appeal. Lexos Media IP v. eBay (N.D. Cal.) — transfer out of the Western District of Texas, dismissal of certain asserted claims for lack of priority, and parallel IPRs in which eBay's joinder motions were granted. Certain Filament Light-Emitting Diodes (Inv. No. 337-TA-1220) — defense of Satco in a four-patent LED Section 337 investigation tried in 2021. ASUS Technology Licensing v. Samsung (E.D. Tex.) — the dispute settled in January 2025 with a patent license and dismissal of all claims and counterclaims, including pending IPRs. On the adverse side, the IPR petition she backed for ABB against RoboticVISIONTech (IPR2023-01426) was denied institution, and the underlying Delaware litigation settled in March 2025. She was also counsel for Teva in the Vifor Fresenius v. Teva Hatch-Waxman bench trial over VELPHORO® iron oxy-hydroxide formulations (outcome not verified in available sources).

PTAB/IPR experience. Yes — she appears regularly as back-up counsel in AIA proceedings, including IPR2023-01426 (ABB), IPR2022-00420 (HPE v. BillJCo, for Apple/Cisco/Aruba), IPR2024-01036 and IPR2024-01217 (Samsung, with Sotera stipulations filed in the parallel E.D. Tex. case), IPR2025-00356 (Samsung v. Molecular Rebar Design), IPR2025-00461, and IPR2025-00792 (GenghisComm v. Samsung).

Bar and education. Admitted in New York (2019); registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 78,153); admitted to the E.D.N.Y., S.D.N.Y., E.D. Tex., the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court per her Martindale profile. J.D., Villanova (2019, IP concentration); M.S., Medical Physics, Duke (2016); B.A., Physics, NYU (2013).