Kyle A. Lonergan

Kyle A. Lonergan — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / technology areas. Lonergan's tracked patent work is concentrated in a single enforcement campaign: Voxer's July 2025 suits in the District of Delaware against Google/YouTube (Voxer, Inc. v. Google, LLC, No. 1:25-cv-00873) and Amazon/AWS/Twitch (Voxer, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-00872). Both assert five "Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus" patents (U.S. Patent Nos. 10,142,270; 10,511,557; 11,146,516; 11,777,883; 11,658,929) covering store-and-stream video messaging, network reception, and live-streaming — i.e., software/telecommunications, not pharma or mechanical. Two of these patents previously produced a $206 million jury verdict for Voxer against Meta in the Western District of Texas (2023), later vacated after settlement (2024); the Google case had a motion to dismiss pending as of late 2025, and the Amazon case drew a March 2026 source-code-protective-order ruling from Judge Gregory B. Williams.

Side preference. Two of three tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, representing patent holder Voxer against operating companies; one tracked appearance is defendant-side (Fenwick & West, lead counsel, in Voxer v. Amazon). The plaintiff-side role is corroborated by the public docket — McKool Smith's Kyle A. Lonergan signed Voxer's filings in the Google case. The Fenwick & West defendant-side appearance could not be independently verified in available sources.

Firm context / caveat. The verifiable Kyle A. Lonergan is a Principal (and Managing Principal of the New York office) of McKool Smith, where his published practice is complex commercial and bankruptcy litigation — trustee work for estates including Rite Aid, Endo, Tops, and Millennium — not patent litigation; he was previously an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. That profile sits uneasily with the tracked patent docket, so name-sharing between two attorneys is possible; the Fenwick & West affiliation in particular should be treated as unverified.

PTAB / bar / education. No regular IPR/PGR practice was found (though PTAB denial of institution occurred in Voxer's earlier Meta litigation, not in cases tied to this attorney). J.D., Stanford Law School (2000); B.A., Yale (1992); M.E.S., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (1995); admitted New York (2001) and the S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., Second, Third, Fifth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits.