Lawrence McDonough

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Lawrence Gordon McDonough (professionally "Larry McDonough") is a Silicon Valley patent litigator; the docket name should be distinguished from unrelated attorneys of the same name (e.g., a Minnesota housing lawyer and a Michigan patent prosecutor).

Specialty / focus. His practice is patent litigation, Federal Circuit appellate work, and ITC proceedings, with an electronics/software emphasis: network and network-security technologies, encryption, smartphones and wireless devices, microprocessor architecture, memory and storage (including solid-state drives), video compression, and semiconductor fabrication. In the Intellectual Ventures banking campaign he worked on patents covering online-banking security — certificate management, packet filtering, intrusion detection, and public-key encryption.

Side preference. The tracked data shows a patent-owner orientation: 2 plaintiff-side appearances, 0 defendant-side. That matches his firm's stated focus on representing patent owners. His firm bio notes he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants and has worked within joint defense groups, so the plaintiff/NPE-side skew in this dataset likely understates his defense work.

Firm context. He is currently a partner at Alberti Lim & Tonkovich LLP (Burlingame, CA), the successor to Feinberg Day Kramer Alberti Lim Tonkovich & Belloli and Kramer Alberti Lim & Tonkovich — the "Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson" name in the Commerce Bancshares docket reflects that lineage. He previously litigated at Howrey & Simon, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, and Fish & Richardson.

Notable tracked matters. Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (W.D. Mo., No. 2:13-cv-04160) and Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc. (N.D. Ala., No. 2:13-cv-01106), both part of IV's multi-bank firewall/security litigation. These ended adversely to his client: the '084 firewall patent was invalidated at the PTAB and the Federal Circuit affirmed in 2017 (Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Nos. 2016-1519 et al.), and the Compass action was dismissed with prejudice after stays pending IPR. Other matters listed on his firm profile include OpenTV/Nagravision v. NFL Enterprises (E.D. Tex.), Broadband iTV v. AT&T/DirecTV/Dish (W.D. Tex.), IV v. Motorola Mobility, AudienceScience v. Google/YouTube, and Enova v. Seagate.

PTAB / IPR. The principal IPRs arising from his tracked cases (IPR2014-00801, -00724, -00786, -00682) were filed by the opposing banks, placing his client on the patent-owner side of those proceedings; I could not verify from public sources whether he personally served as counsel of record in specific IPR filings, so I would not state that as established. His firm markets a record of IPR victories, but that is a firm-level claim, not attributed to him individually.

Bar / education. Admitted in California, New York, and the District of Columbia, and registered before the USPTO; J.D. with honors, George Washington University; B.S. in electrical engineering, SUNY Binghamton. (Source: firm bio; the $172.5M E.D. Tex. verdict cited by his firm is a firm-level result and is not tied to him in available sources.)