Kyle G. Gottuso

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Kyle G. Gottuso — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Gottuso's tracked patent work centers on wireless networking and broadband/ISP infrastructure. His largest tracked matter, CommWorks Solutions, LLC v. RCN Telecom Services, LLC (S.D.N.Y.), involved nine patents covering Wi-Fi/802.11 provisioning, contention-free traffic detection, WMM/802.11 QoS and time-based wireless access — asserted against an ISP defendant. His other tracked matter, the Commerce Bancshares dispute with Intellectual Ventures II, concerns network-monitoring and online-banking/encryption security technology. His Armstrong Teasdale bio describes a broader IP litigation practice spanning patent, copyright and trademark, and lists experience with electronic voting machines, medical devices, electric motors, chemical manufacturing and integrated-circuit card programming equipment. Nothing in the record indicates pharma or life-sciences work; the emphasis is electrical/software/network technology and mechanical-electrical devices.

Side preference. The tracked data is overwhelmingly defense-side: 5 defendant-side appearances against 1 plaintiff-side. Both categories effectively arise from just two matters — CommWorks v. RCN, where he appeared for defendant RCN across four entries, and Commerce Bancshares v. Intellectual Ventures II, where he acted for the bank (both as defendant to IV's infringement counts and as counterclaim plaintiff/IPR petitioner against IV). The practical profile is defense of operating companies — a regional ISP and a bank — against NPE/PAE assertions, though his firm bio also describes offensive enforcement results for patent-owner clients (e.g., asserting a medical device company's patents against a direct competitor and defeating multiple IPRs filed against that client).

Firm context. Gottuso is based in St. Louis and is listed as a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP; the firm announced his elevation among attorneys effective January 1, 2026. He joined Armstrong Teasdale in March 2020 as of counsel after eight years in St. Louis private practice. Prior to that he was an associate in Senniger Powers' IP litigation group (from 2012), and later a partner at Stinson LLP (elected January 2020). CommWorks v. RCN is the Armstrong Teasdale-era matter in this dataset; Commerce Bancshares reflects his Senniger Powers years.

Notable cases, PTAB and credentials. In CommWorks v. RCN, the S.D.N.Y. case ended by joint stipulation of dismissal with prejudice in March 2023, each side bearing its own fees and costs — no infringement or validity finding on the public record. In the Commerce Bancshares line, the PTAB in IPR2014-00801 found U.S. Patent 6,715,084 claims 26, 28 and 30–32 anticipated (claim 33 not shown anticipated); the Federal Circuit in Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Inc., No. 2016-1519 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 27, 2017), affirmed cancellation of those claims in the parallel IBM proceeding (IPR2014-00682) and dismissed the Banks' appeal and cross-appeal as moot. Gottuso appears in PTAB proceedings with some regularity, generally as backup counsel via pro hac vice admission (e.g., IPR2019-00527/00531 for a patent owner, IPR2023-00613 for Quasar Science, and IPR2023-01219 for Videndum in the Rotolight lighting-patent IPRs), and his bio cites a successful motion to amend in a covered business method review. He holds a J.D. (2012, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif) and a B.A. in English (2009, magna cum laude) from the University of Missouri; he is admitted in Missouri, the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, and the Federal Circuit. His published admissions do not list USPTO registration, consistent with his pro hac vice PTAB appearances alongside registered lead counsel.