Michael P. Kahn

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Michael P. Kahn — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Kahn is a first-chair patent infringement and trade secret litigator whose practice spans a wide technical range — life sciences and pharmaceuticals, medical devices, engineering, consumer products and communications, along with chemical, computer science, electrical, e-commerce, materials science, mechanical engineering and software (Akin Gump/Legal 500 practice description; Akin Gump new-partner announcement, Sept. 2015). His trial work is in district courts nationwide and before the ITC, and he also handles IP licensing, portfolio strategy and IP due diligence. The tracked docket is consistent with that breadth: negative-pressure wound-therapy devices (mechanical/medical), autonomous-vehicle perception and machine learning (software/AI), push-to-talk and live-video streaming networks, and consumer e-commerce. Note the caveat that the six tracked matters are a small sample and not a reliable proxy for the full technical scope of his career.

Side preference — genuinely mixed. The tracked data splits evenly (3 plaintiff-side, 3 defendant-side), and both halves are meaningful. His plaintiff-side work includes Voxer, Inc. (an operating company) and Perceptive Automata LLC, a non-practicing entity asserting autonomous-driving perception patents against Tesla. His defense-side work is largely operating-company defense against assertion campaigns: Lyft against Excalibur IP and The Gap against Linfo IP (both NPEs associated with well-known monetization campaigns), plus Solventum, the 3M healthcare spinoff, in the Wound Healing Technologies matter. On the two-sided Wound Healing docket entry, the public IPR record (IPR2025-01042) corroborates his work for Solventum as defendant; he is listed on both sides in the source data, and I could not independently reconcile that duplicate.

Firm context. Kahn has been a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's intellectual property practice in New York since September 2015, when he joined from Ropes & Gray, where he was also a partner. He began his career at Fish & Neave, before its combination with Ropes & Gray. He is repeatedly recognized in IAM Patent 1000 (2024, 2025 and 2026 editions) and is listed as a key practitioner in Legal 500's U.S. patents litigation rankings.

Notable matters and outcomes. Voxer, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (D. Del., filed July 15, 2025) — Voxer sued Amazon, AWS, Twitch and Google on the same network-reception patents behind its $206 million jury win against Meta in 2022, which was later vacated following a settlement (Law360). That Meta result is context for the patents, not a result I can attribute to Kahn. Perceptive Automata LLC v. Tesla, Inc. — Tesla filed five IPRs (IPR2025-01573 through -1577) against the asserted autonomous-vehicle patents; the W.D. Tex. case was stayed (Apr. 2026) and terminated (June 2026). Wound Healing Technologies Corp. v. Solventum Corp. (W.D. Tex. No. 6:24-cv-589) — Solventum petitioned for IPR of the '404 wound-dressing patent and the district court stayed the case pending review.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — he represents clients in inter partes review proceedings (Akin Gump announcement; his declaration appears in the Solventum IPR2025-01042 petition record), and the Perceptive and Wound Healing matters both center on parallel IPR campaigns.

Bar / education. Licensed in New York since 2002; J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2001; B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1998 (Legal 500; Super Lawyers). I did not find a reliable source confirming registration as a patent attorney before the USPTO, so I have not stated it.