Kevin Martin O'Donnell

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Kevin Martin O'Donnell — Henry & O'Donnell, P.C. (Alexandria, Va.)

Specialty / focus. O'Donnell's tracked patent work is limited to a single matter in which he served as local counsel, and the public record is consistent with that being an occasional rather than core practice. His own firm and directory listings describe his practice as bankruptcy/business reorganization, business litigation, and business/corporate law — not intellectual property (Super Lawyers profile, Henry & O'Donnell firm listing). The technology at issue in his tracked case was cybersecurity/network-security patents (threat-intelligence traffic filtering), i.e., a software/networking dispute, but there is no evidence of a sustained technology-area specialty or of patent prosecution experience.

Side preference. The tracked data show 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side, and the filings confirm he was retained by the plaintiff, Centripetal Networks, Inc. This should not be read as NPE-side patent prosecution; it reflects a Virginia local-counsel role for an out-of-state patent boutique, not a plaintiff's patent practice. Court filings in the related E.D. Va. action Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Keysight Technologies, Inc. (No. 2:22-cv-00002) also list him as counsel for Centripetal, again in a local-counsel posture (Docket Nos. 8, 49) — that matter is not in the tracked case list.

Firm context. Henry & O'Donnell, P.C., 300 N. Washington St., Alexandria, Va. He has been licensed in Virginia since 1989 and is a long-tenured member of that firm; I found no verifiable record of prior firms relevant to patent litigation. Firm colleague Jeffery T. Martin, Jr. also appeared on the Centripetal filings. He is not identified in any source I found as a registered patent attorney.

Notable case and outcomes. Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., No. 2:18-cv-00094 (E.D. Va.) is the career-highlight matter. Per the docket, O'Donnell filed the notice of exhibits, oppositions, and the pro hac vice certifications for Centripetal's lead trial counsel (Paul J. Andre, Lisa Kobialka, James Hannah) in early 2018; the substantive litigation was led by that out-of-state team. The result is well documented: after a 22-day bench trial, Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr. found willful infringement and entered what was then the largest patent award in U.S. history — roughly $1.9 billion in damages plus royalties, totaling more than $2.75 billion. On June 23, 2022, the Federal Circuit (Dyk, J., joined by Taranto and Cunningham) reversed the denial of Cisco's recusal motion and vacated the judgment because the judge's wife held Cisco stock, remanding to a different judge; the Supreme Court denied cert on December 5, 2022; and on remand Judge Elizabeth Hanes ruled in December 2023 that Cisco did not infringe. O'Donnell's name does not appear in the appellate or merits rulings — his contribution was procedural and local-counsel work at the district court.

PTAB / IPR. No verifiable record of O'Donnell appearing in IPR, PGR, or other PTAB proceedings. The extensive IPR activity in the Centripetal–Cisco dispute (Cisco filed numerous petitions against nine of the eleven asserted patents) was handled by the parties' national patent counsel, and the IPRs are separate proceedings from his district-court appearances.

Bar / education. Admitted in Virginia in 1989 (Va. State Bar No. 30086); J.D., George Mason University School of Law (now Antonin Scalia Law School), 1989, per his Super Lawyers profile. No other bar admissions were verified.

Caveat: the single tracked appearance substantially understates neither nor overstates his patent exposure — the verifiable record indicates he is a Virginia bankruptcy/commercial litigator whose patent-caseload consists of local-counsel engagements in E.D. Va.