Michael V. Solomita

Michael V. Solomita — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Solomita is a New York-based patent litigator whose practice spans high-technology sectors: semiconductors and DRAMs, consumer electronics and wireless (Bluetooth, cellular, digital signal processing), imaging (laser printers, digital/video cameras), medical sensors and devices, and digital-health software — the latter reflected in his tracked matter for Teladoc Health involving telemedicine and goal-tracking platform patents. A former Lockheed Martin aerospace engineer, he also handles prosecution (firm bios cite thousands of applications) and licensing, per his Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein and Norton Rose Fulbright biographies.

Side preference and firm context. The tracked docket shows one appearance — plaintiff-side Lead Counsel for Teladoc in Teladoc Health Inc. v. Data Health Partners Inc. — but public records show a genuine both-sides practice. He has spent much of his career defending operating companies, particularly Japanese electronics manufacturers (including a 15-plus-year defense of a major printer maker, and two in-house secondments to Panasonic in Japan), while also running plaintiff-side campaigns such as Teladoc's multi-patent assertions against American Well in Delaware and an ITC action yielding a final exclusion order. One caveat: the tracked records list his firm as "Solomita Law," but court and PTAB filings and firm bios through 2026 place him as a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (New York), where he landed via Chadbourne & Parke (2016) after stints at Sheppard Mullin (2014) and IP boutique Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein. I could not verify a current firm named "Solomita Law" tied to him.

Notable cases and PTAB/IPR experience. In the tracked dispute — the D. Del. action Data Health Partners v. Teladoc Health, No. 1:23-cv-00160, and the companion IPRs bearing the tracked caption — Solomita represents Teladoc. In May 2024, Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves denied Teladoc's § 101 motion to dismiss, holding the asserted goal-tracking patents eligible, while dismissing Data Health's pre-suit willful-infringement claims; the case remained pending into late 2025. He is counsel for Teladoc as petitioner in IPR2024-00616, IPR2024-00618, and IPR2026-00391, and earlier led IPR petitions at Sheppard Mullin (e.g., IPR2016-00101). His firm bio confirms regular PTAB work challenging and defending validity; Patexia's 2023 PTAB report ranked him in the top 10% of attorneys representing patent owners and top 17% overall. Other verified results include invalidating Kimberly-Clark's diaper patent for First Quality (Federal Circuit rehearing denied 2011; cert denied 2012) and an ITC final exclusion order in the lithographic-plate matter.

Bar / education. J.D., magna cum laude, New York Law School (1997); B.S. in aerospace engineering, Polytechnic University (1992); New York bar (1998); Federal Circuit (2010); U.S. Supreme Court (2011); registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 53,940).