Louis Norwood Jameson

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Louis Norwood ("Woody") Jameson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Jameson is a first-chair patent trial lawyer whose docket centers on complex electronics and communications technologies. Chamber/legal directory and firm descriptions tie his practice to cybersecurity and network security software, semiconductors, fiber-optic and optical communications, Wi-Fi/IEEE 802.11 (a/g/n/ac standards) wireless networking, cable television and set-top box technology, MPEG decoding, VoIP, internet infrastructure, online banking transactions, data storage, and data-center cooling/thermal management. He also handles some life-sciences-adjacent mechanical work (prosthetic knee implants for Wright Medical) and maintains a parallel trademark, trade dress, copyright, and false-advertising practice. He chairs Duane Morris's global Intellectual Property Practice Group (roughly 90–100+ attorneys).

Side preference. The tracked record is entirely defense-side — 0 plaintiff, 2 defendant — and that matches his practice profile: he has spent most of a ~35-year career defending operating companies (Cisco, AT&T, Verizon, Broadcom, SAP, Time Warner, Cox, Charter, RIM/BlackBerry-type hardware makers, Digital Realty, TSMC) against NPE/PAE and competitor assertions in the Eastern District of Texas, District of Delaware, and Northern District of California. He is not a plaintiff-side NPE counsel. That said, he is not strictly a one-way practitioner; published matter lists show selective plaintiff-side and declaratory-judgment work (e.g., a plaintiff jury verdict for Affinity Labs against Volkswagen and Hyundai in E.D. Tex., and DJ actions for TSMC). The two-case sample in the structured list is too small to characterize his overall mix beyond confirming he is, by default, defense counsel.

Firm context and notable matters. He has been a Duane Morris partner in Atlanta since 2002 and chaired its IP group; before that he was a partner (1996–2002) and associate (1988–1995) at King & Spalding in Atlanta. The most prominent tracked case is Centripetal Networks v. Cisco Systems (E.D. Va.), where he was lead counsel for Cisco: after Cisco lost a $2.75 billion judgment that the Federal Circuit vacated on judicial-recusal grounds (Centripetal Networks, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc., 38 F.4th 1025 (Fed. Cir. 2022)), the retrial on remand ended in a complete defense win — in December 2023 the court found no infringement of the '193, '806, or '176 patents, and the '856 patent claims were separately invalidated in IPR; final judgment followed in June 2024, with a further Federal Circuit appeal (No. 24-2097) in which he remained counsel of record. In Valtrus Innovations Ltd. v. Digital Realty Trust (E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap), he was principal defense counsel for Digital Realty in a seven-patent data-center cooling and thermal-management suit that was dismissed with prejudice in January 2025 by joint motion after resolution. Other reported results include the first-ever E.D. Tex. summary judgment of non-infringement (MyMail v. AOL/EarthLink, affirmed at 476 F.3d 1372 (Fed. Cir. 2007)), a defense verdict for Cisco in Eon Corp. IP Holdings wireless-modem litigation, a complete Section 337 defense verdict for Scientific Atlanta at the ITC, and defenses for Time Warner, Cox, Charter, and Verizon in the Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Wi-Fi standard cases (one reported as the CSIRO v. Cisco 802.11 matter in which the patentee sought roughly $31 million).

PTAB/IPR. IPR practice is integral to his litigation strategy — he has used IPR stays and invalidation outcomes to drive results (e.g., the '856 patent in Centripetal; Crossroads Systems v. Cisco/NetApp, where the IPRs invalidated all asserted claims; the Cobblestone Wireless stay motions). Duane Morris is regularly ranked among the most active petitioner-side PTAB firms and he oversees that group, but the public record I could verify shows him as district-court lead counsel and IPR strategist rather than as a named lead attorney on specific PTAB filings.

Bar and education. J.D., magna cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law (1988); B.A. in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1984); admitted in Georgia (also listed as a registered foreign lawyer at Duane Morris's London office). Chambers USA has ranked him Band 1 for IP in Georgia, and he has been named to Best Lawyers and Lawdragon litigation guides.