Mitch Stockwell

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Good material. Let me verify a few specifics — notable case outcomes, prior firm history, and PTAB activity.

Let me verify the Verizon/Cox VoIP jury verdict and his PTAB footprint.

Professional Summary — Mitch (Mitchell G.) Stockwell

Specialty and focus. Stockwell is an Atlanta-based IP litigator whose practice centers on patent infringement, trade secret, and related licensing disputes. His firm biography describes work across a broad range of technologies — cable and telephony communications, wireless/standards work (GSM, NMTS, and VoIP), software, e-commerce, electronics, medical devices (including knee and hip systems), and athletic footwear and equipment (Kilpatrick profile). Reported matters confirm this breadth: VoIP/packet-switched telephony (Verizon v. Cox), digital set-top box and on-screen guide technology (ARRIS), angioplasty catheters (Voda), and footwear patents (Nike/adidas). Chambers describes him as an experienced IP litigator with particular strength in complex patent and trade secret disputes for technology-sector clients (Chambers USA).

Side preference. The authoritative tracked dataset for this review contains only a single appearance, on the plaintiff side. That record is plainly incomplete relative to his actual docket; the publicly reported matters show he works both sides and, if anything, more often defends operating companies accused of infringement (Cox Communications, adidas, ARRIS, Chrysler/Mercedes-Benz, YP/Thryv) while also representing patent owners and individual inventors (Dr. Jan Voda, Peach State Labs). He is not an NPE/PAE-focused filer. This should be flagged to the reader as a limitation of the tracked data, not as a reliable side-preference indicator.

Firm context. Stockwell is a partner in the Atlanta office of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (the firm was known as Kilpatrick Stockton before its 2011 combination with Townsend and Townsend and Crew). I found no reliably sourced evidence of prior law firms; his bar admission dates to 1993 and his professional footprint is consistently Kilpatrick-affiliated.

Notable matters and outcomes. The most prominent result is Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP, 140 S. Ct. 1367 (2020), where he handled the PTAB and Federal Circuit phases of the firm's representation and the Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Board's invalidation of the asserted claims (Kilpatrick announcement). In Voda v. Medtronic, he argued the Federal Circuit appeal that affirmed a roughly $10 million willful-infringement verdict for a catheter patent (Fed. Cir. Rule 36 judgment; Law360). He argued the defense appeal in Verizon v. Cox Fibernet, where the Federal Circuit affirmed a jury verdict of no infringement of six VoIP patents and invalidity of two (opinion). He also obtained a defense judgment (with an attorney-fee award affirmed on appeal) for Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz in the Taurus/Orion patent litigation, and a stipulated non-infringement ruling for adidas in Nike v. adidas (Shox patents). The Nike/adidas knitted-footwear ITC action (Inv. No. 337-TA-1289) settled on confidential terms before the evidentiary hearing.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — substantial. His firm biography states he has handled more than 45 post-grant proceedings before the USPTO, and he appears as lead or backup counsel in numerous IPRs on both petitioner and patent-owner sides, including the Click-to-Call IPR (IPR2013-00312), Cox Communications matters, Sanford L.P. (DYMO) as patent owner, ARRIS as petitioner, and adidas IPRs against Nike (PTAB filings). He is a registered patent attorney (Reg. No. 39,389).

Bar / education. J.D., University of Virginia School of Law (1993); B.S., Virginia Military Institute (1990); admitted in Georgia (1993), the Federal Circuit, and the Eleventh Circuit (Martindale).