Lindsey Staubach

Specialty / focus areas. Lindsey Staubach's tracked and searchable work centers on patent litigation and PTAB practice in athletic footwear/apparel and consumer-product technologies. Her most prominent matters involve Nike's knit-footwear and upper-construction patents (e.g., claim-construction arguments over "throat area" in Nike v. Skechers), and her Unified Patents work spans location-tracking, speech-recognition, and automotive telematics patents. One aggregator also lists her as patent-owner counsel in a semiconductor/display dispute (Samsung Display v. JOLED, W.D. Tex.), though that source is not independently verified.

Side preference. Her single tracked appearance is plaintiff-side (Nike v. New Balance), and she consistently appears for operating-company plaintiff Nike in district court and as patent owner in IPRs. Notably, she also worked the other side as petitioner/requestor counsel for Unified Patents in IPRs and an ex parte reexamination — so she has genuine experience on both sides of the patent bar, not a pure NPE or pure defendant practice.

Firm context. She was a Senior Associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (Washington, DC), where she worked with Michael Harris and Aaron Bowling on the Nike portfolio. A PTAB filing states she left the firm effective October 17, 2025; her current firm is not verified. A database listing suggests she may previously have been at Covington & Burling, but I could not confirm that via a firm bio or court opinion.

Notable cases / outcomes. Tracked case: Nike v. New Balance Athletics (D. Mass. 1:23-cv-12666), where she appeared at a motion-to-stay hearing and the case later settled in part with dismissal of claims over U.S. Patent 9,730,484. She also appeared in Nike v. Skechers (C.D. Cal.), including a September 2024 claim-construction hearing, and in Nike v. Lululemon (D. Mass.). In her Unified Patents work, the Broadphone tracking patent was found invalid in reexamination (2024), and an IPR was instituted against Mel NavIP's speech-recognition patent (2023).

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — she appears regularly at the PTAB, both as backup counsel for patent owner Nike (IPR2025-00142 and IPR2025-00151, from which she was withdrawn upon leaving A&P) and as petitioner counsel for Unified Patents in IPRs and reexaminations.

Bar / education. USPTO registration No. 76,738 (confirmed via PTAB filings); law school and state-bar details were not reliably sourced and are omitted.