Olivia C. Schmitz

I'll research this attorney's professional background before drafting.

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The name appears at Greenberg Traurig but I need to disambiguate from another Schmitz. Let me dig further.

Research note: Public sourcing on this attorney is thin. Searches returned no Greenberg Traurig profile page, no Law360/Reuters coverage, and no court opinions naming Olivia C. Schmitz individually. Results for "Schmitz" + Greenberg Traurig + patent litigation resolve mostly to Kassidy Schmitz, a different Greenberg Traurig attorney (Washington, DC; mechanical engineering; American University Washington College of Law) — not the same person and not included below. The summary below therefore rests on the tracked docket entry plus one co-authored publication, with gaps flagged.

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Specialty / focus areas. The single tracked matter places her in consumer-electronics patent litigation: Universal Electronics, Inc. v. Roku, Inc., where plaintiff Universal Electronics (UEI) has asserted its remote-control and RF/wireless-connectivity patent portfolio against streaming-device maker Roku. That technology space — remote control, set-top/streaming hardware, and wireless interface patents — is the only practice area directly evidenced by the case record. One additional data point: a 2022 review article, Intellectual Property Protection in Neurosurgery: An Overview (Dykeman DJ, Schmitz O, Dagi TF), lists her affiliation as "Harvard Law School, c/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Boston," which is consistent with exposure to medical-technology/life-sciences IP issues, though the affiliation line alone does not establish a practice concentration. Note the article's co-author David J. Dykeman co-chairs Greenberg Traurig's Global Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group, not her.

Side preference. Her tracked appearance count is 1 plaintiff-side and 0 defendant-side, and the single case is on the patent-owner side of a first-filed infringement action. That is too small a sample to support a characterization of side preference; the honest read is "patent owner / plaintiff side, based on one matter," not a demonstrated NPE- or operating-company orientation. Worth noting that UEI is itself an operating company with a long licensing and enforcement history, so the one data point is not an NPE/PAE representation.

Firm context. Greenberg Traurig LLP is the only firm associated with her tracked appearance. I found no verified evidence of prior firms in her patent litigation career, so any earlier-firm history should be treated as unknown rather than assumed. One related but distinct fact: Greenberg Traurig itself substituted in as counsel of record for UEI in the client's PTAB matters in August 2024, replacing Alston & Bird (see the updated counsel notice in IPR2021-00455). That is a firm-level substitution and should not be read as her own lateral move — I could not verify where she practiced before Greenberg Traurig.

Notable cases / PTAB experience. The prominent tracked matter is Universal Electronics, Inc. v. Roku, Inc., in which she is listed as back-up counsel rather than lead or first-chair. UEI's campaign against Roku spans both district court and the PTAB, and the Greenberg Traurig team has been active on the Patent Owner side of IPRs covering UEI patents including U.S. Patent No. 10,325,486 (IPR2021-00455), handled by lead counsel James J. Lukas, Jr. and back-up counsel Gary Jarosik, Benjamin P. Gilford, and Patrick J. Owens. I found no IPR, PGR, or Section 337 filing naming Olivia C. Schmitz herself as counsel, so her personal PTAB appearance record is unverified — do not represent her as a regular IPR practitioner on this record.

Bar / education. Not reliably sourced. The best available indicator is the 2022 publication affiliation tying her to Harvard Law School and a Greenberg Traurig Boston address; no bar admission or degree information for her could be confirmed in any citable source. Omit from any filing or bio pending direct verification with the firm.