Matthew Satchwell

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Matthew Satchwell — DLA Piper (Chicago)

Specialty / focus. Satchwell is a first-chair patent litigator whose practice concentrates on high-technology and manufacturing disputes — software, semiconductors and integrated circuits, mobile communications devices, automotive components, power electronics, navigation, and communications technology, with the firm also describing him as handling industrial and life sciences clients. His most distinctive niche is Section 337 litigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission; IAM Patent 1000 calls him a "leading expert" in Section 337 investigations, and he is a repeat speaker on ITC practice. He is also a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 58,870) and litigates in plaintiff-heavy district courts including Delaware, the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, and the Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California.

Side preference. He sits firmly on the defense/respondent side. The tracked docket — 0 plaintiff-side versus 2 defendant-side appearances — is consistent with his public profile: he routinely represents operating technology companies as respondents or defendants against NPE/PAE and competitor suits, including LG Electronics, Google (as co-petitioner), KIOXIA, and automotive manufacturers (Denso, Mazda, Hyundai, Subaru, Volvo). I found no verified record of him prosecuting patent infringement claims for a patent-owning plaintiff.

Firm context. He is a partner at DLA Piper (US) and serves as the firm's US Chair of Patent Litigation, co-leading the global patent litigation practice with Gualtiero Dragotti in Milan. Before joining DLA Piper in 2013 he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis; he joined DLA Piper's Chicago office alongside Paul Steadman and was subsequently elevated to lead the firm's US patent litigation group. I found no in-house affiliation.

Notable matters and PTAB/IPR work. The most prominent tracked matter is the SpaceTime3D campaign (three-dimensional webpage/UI patents): Satchwell represented LG Electronics as defendant in SpaceTime3D, Inc. v. LG Electronics Inc., No. 2:22-cv-00049 (E.D. Tex.) and as petitioner in IPR2023-00577 on U.S. Patent 8,881,048, where LG and SpaceTime3D filed a confidential settlement and license agreement and jointly moved to terminate in May 2023 (LGE was likewise terminated from the joined Google proceeding, IPR2023-00578). Related Apple IPRs over the same family went to final written decisions adverse to the petitioner and were affirmed by the Federal Circuit at Nos. 25-1022/1051/1082 — Apple's counsel, not Satchwell's, handled those appeals. He also represents KIOXIA in MonolithIC 3D Inc. v. KIOXIA Corp., No. 2:25-cv-01160 (E.D. Tex.), where he obtained an unopposed stay pending the parallel ITC investigation (April 2026). PTAB work is a regular part of his practice: DLA Piper's bio states he was lead counsel in one of the first AIA inter partes reviews (IPR2013-00026, on behalf of automotive client Denso, concerning U.S. Patent 6,029,111), and he has appeared as lead or backup counsel in numerous IPRs for LG, Mazda, Hyundai, Subaru, and Volvo, with the firm describing him as routinely arguing and winning PTAB hearings.

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois and before the USPTO; also admitted to the Federal Circuit and several district courts (E.D. Tex., E.D. Mich., N.D. Ill., W.D. Okla.). J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School; B.A. (Physics and History), Washington University in St. Louis, 2003.

Caveats: One tracked entry ("Untitled case") is unidentified in the source data and I have not characterized it. The AKD Partners page reproducing DLA Piper biography text appears to be third-party content mirroring DLA Piper's profile; it is not treated here as evidence of current employment. Directory rankings cited above (Chambers Band 2 for Illinois IP in 2026; Legal 500; Patexia Top 100 ITC respondents and Top 100 patent litigators, 2026) are sourced from the firm's and directories' own pages.