Kevin M. O'Donnell

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Kevin M. O'Donnell — Henry & O'Donnell, P.C. (Alexandria, VA)

Practice focus. O'Donnell's practice is centered on bankruptcy and restructuring, commercial litigation, and business/corporate work, not on patent prosecution or portfolio enforcement. His firm bio describes representation of banks, businesses, and individuals in commercial disputes, loan workouts, and complex chapter 11 cases across Virginia, Maryland, and D.C. The single patent case in which he appears — Centripetal Networks, Inc. et al. v. Palo Alto Networks, Inc., in the Eastern District of Virginia (Nos. 2:21-cv-00137 / 1:21-cv-00313) — was a network-security patent dispute over next-generation firewall, DNS-security, and threat-intelligence technology, and he appeared in the "local counsel" role rather than as trial counsel on the patent merits.

Side preference. On the tracked data he appears once, on the plaintiff side, and he has no tracked defendant-side patent appearances. That single plaintiff appearance reflects Centripetal's use of Virginia local counsel rather than a patent-enforcement practice on O'Donnell's part; the substantive plaintiff-side representation was led by Kramer Levin (Paul Andre, Lisa Kobialka, James Hannah, and others). Nothing in the available record indicates a NPE/PAE plaintiff practice or an operating-company defense practice.

Firm and background. He has practiced at Henry & O'Donnell, P.C. (also styled Henry & O'Donnell, PC) in Alexandria, Virginia, where he is a named member; the firm is Chambers-ranked in Bankruptcy/Restructuring. He was admitted in Virginia in 1989, in Maryland in 2010, and is admitted in federal courts in D.C.; he earned his J.D. with honors from George Mason University School of Law (1989) and a B.S. in accounting with honors from George Mason University (1986). He served as an adjunct professor at George Mason from 2001 to 2004, teaching Secured Transactions and the UCC. No prior patent-focused firm or in-house role appears in the public record.

Notable matter and PTAB. In the Centripetal matter, a Virginia jury returned a $151.5 million verdict on Jan. 31, 2024, finding Palo Alto's next-generation firewalls infringed all four asserted patents; the court subsequently granted partial JMOL of non-infringement as to one patent and reduced the award to roughly $113.6 million while denying a new trial (Law360, Oct. 31, 2024). Any weight to be given O'Donnell personally in that result is limited by his local-counsel designation. The related invalidity fight proceeded at the PTAB — Palo Alto Networks, Inc. v. Centripetal Networks, Inc., IPR2022-00182 (with IPR2022-01151, IPR2022-01199) — and on Oct. 22, 2025 the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the Board's obviousness decision on U.S. Patent No. 9,917,856 for failure to consider copying evidence. There is no indication O'Donnell appears regularly in IPR/PGR proceedings, and none of the public sources reviewed links him to those filings.