Melissa C. Neri

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Professional Summary — Melissa C. Neri

Focus areas. The tracked matters reflect a single, tightly focused patent campaign: Cloud Byte LLC v. Dell Inc. and Dell Technologies Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00637-JRG (E.D. Tex., Marshall Div., filed Aug. 5, 2024), which asserts seven patents — U.S. Patent Nos. 7,739,544; 9,482,632; 9,560,177; 9,629,265; 9,651,320; 9,900,249; and 10,628,273 — directed to data storage and storage-area networking (disk-array rebuild, storage virtualization) and to server/ICT hardware monitoring (thermal and cooling-fan control in PowerEdge-class equipment). The technology profile is enterprise storage, networking, and computer hardware/software. I found no sourced indication of Wi-Fi/standards, pharmaceutical, or mechanical practice.

Side preference. All three tracked appearances are plaintiff-side (3 plaintiff / 0 defendant), and in the PTAB proceeding she is listed on the patent-owner side. In practice this is patent-monetization work for a non-practicing entity: Cloud Byte has been publicly characterized as an NPE by Unified Patents, and the district court record shows the patents were held by NEC Corporation until Cloud Byte acquired them in 2024 and sued Dell shortly after. The sample is very small (three appearances, one campaign), so this should be read as a snapshot rather than an established pattern across both sides of the "v." — there is no tracked defense-side work.

Firm context and identity caveat. The tracked data lists Maynard Nexsen for the IPR matter. I could not independently verify a Maynard Nexsen practice-page biography for a patent litigator named Melissa C. Neri; the only directory listing I located is a Birmingham, Alabama entry for "Melissa C. Neri" at Maynard Nexsen PC under general litigation. Separately, a Melissa Neri admitted to the California bar on Dec. 19, 2023 (Emory University School of Law) is associated with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in San Francisco — and Quinn Emanuel (Yury Kapgan, Ryan Goldstein, Brian Mack, James Glass) is plaintiff's counsel of record for Cloud Byte in the district court case and the IPRs. These may be the same person or two different attorneys sharing the name; I was unable to confirm which, and I found no reliable prior-firm history for either. That ambiguity should be resolved with the source docket before relying on the firm attribution.

Notable matters, PTAB experience, and bar/education. Dell responded to the district court suit with a coordinated IPR series (IPR2025-01284 through -01287, filed July 14, 2025). In IPR2025-01286 ('632 patent) and IPR2025-01287 ('265 patent), the Director denied institution on discretionary (Fintiv) grounds on Nov. 20, 2025, and Dell's refund requests were granted in January 2026 — a favorable outcome for the patent owner. On the parallel track, Unified Patents' ex parte reexamination of the '544 patent was granted by the Central Reexamination Unit on Feb. 11, 2025 on all challenged claims, and the PTAB petitions stressed that rejection. In the district court, Judge Rodney Gilstrap granted Cloud Byte's motion to dismiss Dell's § 287 marking counterclaims (Dkt. 273, Jan. 29, 2026). No verdict, settlement, or Federal Circuit appeal is documented in the sources I reviewed. Bar/education: if the California licensee record is the same person, active California bar membership (No. 353554, admitted Dec. 19, 2023) and a J.D. from Emory — but treat both as unconfirmed pending disambiguation.