Kyle A. Ceuninck

Kyle A. Ceuninck is a registered patent attorney and an Associate in Ballard Spahr's Intellectual Property Department, focusing on patent litigation and trade secret misappropriation. His practice spans a diverse range of technology areas, including payment systems, website building tools, mechanical devices, telecommunications equipment, biomedical devices, business methods, and software.

Ceuninck represents clients in both the defense and assertion of patent rights in federal courts across the country. While his tracked case, Monticello Enterprises LLC v. Starbucks Corporation, involved defending Starbucks, his broader experience includes successfully defending large corporations against significant infringement claims as well as asserting patents for clients. He has been part of jury trial teams that successfully defended against infringement claims seeking hundreds of millions in damages and achieved non-infringement jury verdicts in multi-million dollar patent suits.

A notable outcome includes securing summary judgment and dismissal of patent infringement claims in Monticello Enterprises LLC v. Starbucks Corporation (W.D. Tex., 2026), where the court found that sublicense agreements covered the use of mobile payment systems like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay. He has also been involved in appellate proceedings before the Federal Circuit, contributing to a team that obtained a vacatur of a lower court's non-infringement ruling at summary judgment. Ceuninck also represents clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

He earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2018 and a B.S. from Florida State University in 2015. He is admitted to practice in Georgia and Florida, as well as several U.S. District Courts, including the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia.