Kirk L. Kalian

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Note on sourcing: Public web searches for this attorney returned no independent results — no firm bio, bar record, or press coverage for a "Kirk L. Kalian" could be verified, and one search engine result conflated the name with an unrelated Chicago attorney (Kal Shah). The following is drawn primarily from the authoritative case list and from the docket materials of the one tracked matter; items that could not be independently confirmed are flagged.

Specialty / focus areas. The single tracked appearance is EcoFactor, Inc. v. Resideo Technologies, Inc., a patent-infringement suit filed in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas (No. 6:22-cv-00069, filed Feb. 14, 2022). The asserted patents (U.S. Pat. Nos. '382 and '890) concern smart-thermostat and HVAC energy-management technology, and the accused products are Resideo's T5/T6/T9/T10 Pro smart thermostats and supporting servers, apps, and sensors. On this record the practice area is consumer/connected-device and building-automation patent litigation — not Wi-Fi standards, pharma, or mechanical cases, for which no appearance is tracked.

Side preference. The tracked data show 1 of 1 appearances on the plaintiff side, with the case role recorded as counsel. That is consistent with representing patent owners in enforcement/licensing campaigns rather than defending operating companies: EcoFactor is a patent-holding entity that has filed a large volume of suits in the Western District of Texas asserting its thermostat patents. The count is a single data point, so it supports only a tentative inference of plaintiff-side/NPE-adjacent work, not a demonstrated practice mix.

Firm context. The case list attributes the appearance to Susman Godfrey. That attribution could not be corroborated by web search; the complaint document located for EcoFactor v. Resideo lists plaintiff's counsel from the firm Russ August & Kabat (raklaw.com addresses), not Susman Godfrey. No prior-firm history or in-house role could be verified. Treat the Susman Godfrey affiliation as reported by the underlying data rather than independently confirmed.

Notable case. EcoFactor v. Resideo is the only tracked matter. In it, EcoFactor asserted the '382 and '890 patents against Resideo's smart thermostats, and the court denied Resideo's transfer motion, weighing the fifteen related EcoFactor cases already pending in the district — including EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 6:20-cv-00075-ADA, which had proceeded to trial there on related thermostat technology. No verdict, settlement, or appeal outcome specific to Kalian's involvement in the Resideo case is documented in the materials reviewed.

PTAB / IPR experience. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB filings attributable to this attorney were found. There is no evidence of a regular PTAB practice.

Bar / education. Not reliably sourced; omitted.