Krysta K. Pachman

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Let me look up the tracked patent case and check for PTAB/IPR activity.

Let me verify her education, bar admission, and prior firm history, plus the disposition of the district court case.

Krysta Kauble Pachman — Susman Godfrey LLP (Los Angeles)

Specialty / focus. Pachman is a generalist commercial trial lawyer at Susman Godfrey whose IP work sits at the intersection of technology and complex business disputes rather than in a single technical silo. Her verified patent matters involve graphics processing and cloud/remote-rendering software (the tracked Intellectual Pixels v. Sony suit over U.S. Patent No. 10,681,109, "Image Display System with Visual Server," asserted against PlayStation Now, Remote Play and Share Play), GPU graphics patents originally developed at 3DLabs (ZiiLabs v. Apple and Samsung), and automated database technology (Sentius v. Microsoft). The bulk of her docket is non-patent: class actions (privacy/data breach, securities, antitrust, copyright) and high-stakes contract and Lanham Act arbitrations. Firm and directory bios describe her practice as spanning "patent cases, trademark & copyright matters" alongside class actions. I did not find Wi-Fi-standard or pharmaceutical patent work attributable to her.

Side preference. The tracked data shows one patent appearance, on the plaintiff side (as counsel of record for Intellectual Pixels Limited) — consistent with Susman Godfrey's plaintiffs-side orientation. Her broader IP and commercial practice is genuinely two-sided: firm bios state she represents both plaintiffs and defendants, and she has served as court-appointed lead or co-lead counsel in several plaintiff class actions. On the patent side specifically, the verifiable record is patent-owner/plaintiff-side assertion rather than defense of operating companies.

Firm context. She is a partner in Susman Godfrey's Los Angeles office (1900 Avenue of the Stars), where she has spent her practice. Prior to joining the firm she clerked for the Hon. Philip S. Gutierrez, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. No in-house or prior law-firm affiliation appears in the sourced record.

Notable cases and outcomes. In the tracked matter, the outcome was adverse to her client and is worth flagging: Sony petitioned for IPR (IPR2021-00237), the Board initially found the claims not unpatentable (June 2022), the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded for lack of substantial evidence (No. 2022-2118, Oct. 13, 2023, nonprecedential), and on remand the Board held claims 1–12 unpatentable as obvious (June 5, 2024). A divided Fed Cir panel affirmed on July 10, 2026 in a precedential opinion authored by Judge Dyk (Intellectual Pixels Ltd. v. Sony Interactive Ent. LLC, No. 2024-2174), with costs to Sony. I could not verify a final disposition of the underlying C.D. Cal. infringement action (No. 8:20-cv-01422), which was overtaken by the IPR. On the patent side she also helped defeat summary judgment and oppose Daubert motions in ZiiLabs v. Apple and Samsung (settled on the eve of trial after Apple took a license) and handled the Daubert motions in Sentius v. Microsoft (settled shortly after those rulings). Her most prominent reported wins are non-patent: a $987 million Lanham Act/contract arbitration award for Everly Health, confirmed in 2025 at over $1.03 billion; a $330 million arbitration award for an independent power producer; $100 million in In re Pattern Energy; the Spotify royalty settlement in Ferrick v. Spotify; and co-lead counsel appointment in the Blackbaud data-breach MDL.

PTAB / IPR experience. Her tracked patent case generated a full IPR through two final written decisions and two Federal Circuit appeals, but the PTAB-side representation was handled by Armond Wilson LLP, not Pachman. There is no sourced indication that she appears regularly before the PTAB in IPR/PGR proceedings; her patent experience appears to be district-court focused.

Bar / education. Admitted to the California bar in December 2011 (SBN 280951); also listed as admitted in Kansas. J.D., UCLA School of Law (2011); B.A. in political science and communication studies, magna cum laude, Northwestern University.