Kevin S. Katona

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Let me verify a few leads: current employment, the tracked case, and IPR activity.

Let me verify current role and check PTAB/IPR activity and other cases.

Practice focus. Kevin S. Katona is a Pittsburgh-based IP litigator whose tracked patent work sits in the mechanical/consumer-products space — his one tracked appearance is Aspex Eyewear, Inc. et al. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc., an eyewear patent case (magnetic clip-on lens frames) in D. Mass. and the Federal Circuit. Directory and firm descriptions of his Reed Smith practice list a broader industry mix including medical devices, health care, genotyping, pharmaceuticals, mining, railway braking systems, printing and imaging, robotics, software, financial services, and communications/media, with work spanning claim construction, infringement, invalidity, inequitable conduct, and IP diligence/licensing, plus prosecution and opinion work. Notably, no Wi-Fi/standards-essential-patent or large-scale NPE docket is evidenced for him in the available sources.

Side preference. Available data skews defense-side. The tracked case list shows 0 plaintiff-side and 1 defendant-side appearance, and the same pattern holds in the matters I could verify: he was defense-side in Aspex Eyewear (for Altair Eyewear) and filed a pro hac vice application for defendant Med3000 Inc. in Medsquire LLC v. Spring Medical Systems, Inc. (C.D. Cal.). He also appears as part of the Reed Smith team for Highmark in an N.D. Tex. patent matter in which Judge Means awarded $4.7 million in attorney's fees (per the N.D. Tex. blog's Nov. 2010 report); Highmark's posture there was defensive/DJ rather than as an offensive patentee. This is a thin sample, so treat any "defense-only" characterization as preliminary.

Firm context and notable matters. Reed Smith LLP (Pittsburgh) is his tracked firm, listed in the structured data as of counsel; older public directory listings describe him as a senior associate in the firm's IP group. USPTO TTAB filings from 2015 list "Kevin S. Katona" as Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. (Pittsburgh), indicating he later moved in-house; I could not confirm his current employer from a firm-published or news source, so that transition should be verified before reliance. On outcomes, the most prominent tracked matter is Aspex Eyewear — the district court entered judgment for Altair that the '054 patent was invalid (Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc., 818 F. Supp. 2d 348 (D. Mass. 2011)) and found the '811/'896 patents not infringed, and the Federal Circuit affirmed (Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. Altair Eyewear, Inc., 484 F. App'x 565 (Fed. Cir. 2012)); Katona is listed as of counsel on the Federal Circuit brief.

PTAB/IPR and credentials. I found no IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances attributed to him in the sources searched; he does not appear to be a regular PTAB practitioner, though the absence of indexed records is not proof of no PTAB work. Martindale reports admission to the Pennsylvania bar (2003), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and registration to practice before the USPTO, with a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (2003) and a prior graduate degree from Duquesne; the education line rests on a single directory source and should be confirmed.

Disambiguation note: several references to a "Dr. Katona" testifying as a damages/technical expert (e.g., in Pictiva Displays v. Samsung) concern a different individual, as do public records for a Kevin R. Katona and a Kevin Reid Katona. The TTAB filings and Martindale entry above are consistent with the Reed Smith attorney.