Matthew A. Sklar

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One more check on the distinct Verisk/EagleView docket and Sklar's PTAB involvement.

Matthew A. Sklar — McCarter & English, Newark, NJ

Practice focus. Sklar is a partner in McCarter & English's intellectual property group, with a litigation-first practice spanning patent infringement, licensing and trade secret disputes, and trademark/trade dress, plus IP counseling, due diligence and risk assessment. His technical profile is software- and data-heavy at the case level — every one of his tracked patent matters arises from the long-running EagleView/Verisk-Xactware dispute over aerial-imagery-based roof estimation software (U.S. Patents on roof estimation and pitch determination) — while his published practice description also lists pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, medical devices, electronics and consumer products. His academic/technical background is a BS in chemical engineering (Cornell, 2002), with prior industry work in pharma and consumer products, not telecom or standards work; no Wi-Fi/SEP or life-sciences patent litigation is evident in his tracked record. His IP docket is not purely patent: he also handles trademark enforcement and data-breach/MDL defense, and is frequently retained as New Jersey local counsel in securities and commercial matters.

Side of the "v." The structured list records 2 plaintiff-side and 3 defendant-side appearances, but all five trace to a single multiparty commercial rivalry, and the underlying client in each was Xactware Solutions/Verisk Analytics — i.e., the accused infringer on the infringement claims and the challenger in the parallel PTAB/Federal Circuit proceedings. In substance this is a defense-side practice representing operating companies, not a patent-assertion or NPE practice; McCarter's work for EagleView's adversary, not for a non-practicing entity, accounts for the plaintiff-side docket designations.

Notable matters. He was part of the McCarter trial team (with Scott S. Christie, among others) in EagleView Technologies v. Xactware Solutions (D.N.J. 1:15-cv-07025), tried September 2019. The result was adverse to his client: a jury found willful infringement of six claims across five patents and awarded EagleView $125 million in lost profits; the court denied JMOL/new trial (Sept. 2020), entered a permanent injunction (Oct. 2019), and enhanced damages by trebling the award to $375 million plus fees (Feb. 2021). Sklar was on the appellate team in Xactware Solutions, Inc. v. EagleView Technologies, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2020–21) challenging that judgment; oral argument was held October 8, 2021, and the parties settled in November 2021, dismissing the appeal while the district court refused to vacate the judgment. Earlier, he appeared on the McCarter team in Xactware Solutions, Inc. v. EagleView Technologies, Inc., No. 18-1053 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 6, 2019), which affirmed the PTAB's final written decisions upholding EagleView's patents in four IPRs (IPR2016-00589 through -00592) — an unfavorable outcome. His firm bio also claims a favorable jury verdict and Federal Circuit affirmance for a medical device manufacturer, and early-motion success for a flash-memory maker, but those matters are described generically and are not independently verifiable by name.

PTAB/IPR, firm and bar context. His verifiable PTAB exposure runs through the EagleView/Xactware IPRs and the resulting Federal Circuit appeals, and he has published on IPR practice (including a 2015 alert on IPR efficiency and standing post-Azure Networks); the record does not show him as a recurring lead IPR petitioner's counsel outside that dispute, so PTAB work appears occasional rather than a core specialty. He has spent his career at McCarter & English (no prior firm identified), where IAM Patent 1000 has ranked him as a leading patent professional (2024–2026) and WTR 1000 has listed him for New Jersey trademark work. He is admitted in New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia, is admitted to the Federal Circuit, the Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Supreme Court, D.N.J. and the E.D./S.D.N.Y., and clerked for Judge Mary Ellen Coster Williams of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims after earning his JD from George Washington University Law School (2008). Bar admissions come from his firm bio and a third-party directory rather than a primary court record; treat the jurisdiction list as firm-reported.