Michael V. Caracappa

Michael V. Caracappa — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Michael V. Caracappa is a managing associate at FBT Gibbons LLP (formerly Gibbons P.C.) in Newark and New York, where he is primarily a commercial and white-collar litigator rather than a patent specialist. His firm biography describes a practice centered on complex commercial disputes and criminal defense, with intellectual property disputes, e-discovery, and regulatory investigations as secondary components. The single tracked patent-docket appearance fits that profile: he served as local counsel for defendant Save On SP, LLC in Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. v. Save On SP, LLC (D.N.J. 2:22-cv-02632), entering his appearance in March 2023 and withdrawing two months later. That case — a commercial/ERISA dispute over J&J's copay-assistance program rather than a patent-infringement matter — reflects his exposure to the healthcare/pharma space, but there is no evidence he handles Wi-Fi, software, or mechanical patent litigation. (Note: a different attorney, John Michael Caracappa of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, is the patent/ITC litigator in materials science and mechanical arts; do not conflate the two.)

Side preference and firm context. His tracked work is entirely defendant-side — one appearance, as local counsel for an operating-company defendant — consistent with a broader defense-side commercial practice at Gibbons/FBT Gibbons. Before Gibbons, he clerked for U.S. Magistrate Judge Zahid N. Quraishi (D.N.J.) and New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Walter F. Timpone. His publications include an analysis of the District of Delaware's protective-order ruling in the Hatch-Waxman case Amicus Therapeutics US, LLC v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., but that reflects firm commentary, not a personal appearance.

Notable matters, PTAB, and credentials. No verdicts, Federal Circuit appeals, or settlements are attributable to him from the tracked record; the J&J v. Save On SP case remains pending in D.N.J. No personal IPR/PGR appearances were found, and he should not be characterized as a regular PTAB practitioner. He holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law (Order of the Coif; admitted New Jersey 2018, New York 2020) and a B.A. from Montclair State University, and he has been named a New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star (Business Litigation, 2023–2026). Overall, he is best characterized as a general commercial litigator with incidental patent-docket exposure rather than an established patent trial lawyer.