Natalie Flechsig

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Natalie Flechsig — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Flechsig's tracked patent work is concentrated in geospatial/aerial-imagery technology: three of her four listed appearances are for Eagle View Technologies / Pictometry International, asserting patents covering aerial roof measurement, 3D building reconstruction, and image-analysis-based property analytics. Web-searchable dockets also place her on the Kirkland trial team in Gigamon Inc. v. Apcon, Inc. (E.D. Tex.), a network-security/packet-switching patent dispute, and on the Kirkland team in the Care N' Care / TriZetto v. Integrated Claims Systems covered business method reviews, which concerned insurance-claims processing patents. Her broader docket (e.g., Motorola Solutions v. Hytera) is IP-adjacent but trade secret rather than patent.

Side preference. All four tracked appearances are plaintiff-side, representing patent owners/asserting parties (Eagle View Technologies and Pictometry). On the public record she is a patent-owner-side litigator rather than a defender of operating companies. Note one caveat: web sources (the EDTX IP blog's trial-team acknowledgment) also place her on the Apcon defense team in the 2021 Gigamon trial, a defense verdict; that appearance is not reflected in her tracked case list, and the listing appears to be a supporting team role rather than lead counsel.

Firm context. Kirkland & Ellis throughout — originally the Chicago office (300 N. LaSalle), now the San Francisco office (555 California Street). No prior firm or in-house role is disclosed in the sources reviewed.

Notable cases and outcomes. Eagle View Technologies v. Nearmap US, Inc. (D. Utah, filed 2021) is the most prominent tracked matter; Flechsig is listed as trial counsel. The district case was stayed in August 2025 pending PTO and Federal Circuit proceedings, and the parties announced a confidential settlement in May 2026. She is also listed on Eagle View Technologies v. GAF Materials LLC (D. Utah, filed 2021); no public outcome for that case was identified. Note that the high-profile merits outcomes in the EagleView/Nearmap patent family — the PTAB's obviousness findings against the '961 and '436 patents, affirmed by the Federal Circuit on February 3, 2026, and the 2024 denials of institution on the '648 and '657 patents — were handled by Haynes Boone on EagleView's behalf, so those results are not attributable to her.

PTAB / IPR experience. She has documented PTAB experience, appearing as back-up counsel at the April 2016 oral hearing in the related covered business method reviews CBM2015-00062/-00063/-00064 (Care N' Care Insurance / TriZetto v. Integrated Claims Systems); argument was presented by Gianni Cutri, and the Board invalidated the claims, with the Federal Circuit summarily affirming in 2018 (Integrated Claims Systems v. Care N' Care, Nos. 2016-2527 et al.). Her listed PTAB appearances are on the petitioner side; the record reviewed does not show her as lead counsel in IPR/PGR proceedings.

Bar / education. Not reliably sourced in the materials reviewed; docket and directory entries list her as an intellectual property attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in San Francisco, but no confirmed bar admissions or law school information was found.