Patrick J. Owens

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Specialty / focus. Patrick J. Owens is a member of Greenberg Traurig's Intellectual Property Litigation practice, based in the firm's Chicago office. His tracked matters center on augmented-reality and location-based mobile gaming software — the ImagineAR/Imagine AR patents covering the interplay between real-world location data and virtual environments, asserted against Niantic's Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, Peridot, Monster Hunter Now and related titles. That software/§ 101-eligibility exposure is the dominant substantive theme in his docket. He is also a registered patent attorney with a mechanical-engineering background (former design engineer at Milwaukee Electric Tool and senior project mechanical engineer at Focal Point Lights, with his own pre-Greenberg Traurig patent filings on powered tools and cut-off tools), so mechanical and electro-mechanical subject matter is a plausible part of his practice, though it does not appear in the tracked case list.

Side and role. The tracked data shows three appearances — one plaintiff-side, two defendant-side — but the party labels are less informative than they look. In the substantive dispute, ImagineAR, Inc. v. Niantic, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-01252 (D. Del.), he is docketed among the Greenberg Traurig attorneys representing the patent owner and plaintiff, ImagineAR. The PTAB-captioned "defendant" entries (Unified Patents v. ImagineAR; the Niantic IPRs) likewise reflect the patent owner's position as respondent. On these facts he reads as a patent-owner/enforcement-side litigator working for an asserting AR company rather than a routine defense-side counsel for operating companies — but with only three tracked appearances, that is a description of a small sample, not an established pattern.

Firm context and outcomes. He is at Greenberg Traurig (the firm that ImagineAR publicly retained in September 2024 for portfolio enforcement), working alongside James J. Lukas, Jr. (PTAB lead counsel), Matthew Levinstein, Sean Patchin, Benjamin Gilford and Erik Bokar, with Delaware local counsel handling the district court filings. The headline outcome is adverse to his client: on April 7, 2026, Judge Joshua D. Wolson granted Niantic's motion for judgment on the pleadings and invalidated U.S. Patent Nos. 10,946,284, 11,484,797, 11,666,827 and 12,070,691 under 35 U.S.C. § 101, entering final judgment for Niantic and closing the case; that followed a September 8, 2025 ruling invalidating the '592 patent on the same basis. Niantic also filed IPR2025-01273 through -01276 against ImagineAR's patents.

PTAB / IPR. He appears as part of the Greenberg Traurig team defending ImagineAR's patents in the PTAB proceedings (listed in service and protective-order signature blocks and correspondence for the Niantic IPRs), though he is not one of the counsel formally designated under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8 in the IPR2025-01273 mandatory notices, where Lukas is lead and Jarosik, Gilford and Bokar are back-up. The Unified Patents v. ImagineAR PTAB matter appears in the tracked data; I was unable to independently verify his specific role in it. His overall IPR footprint is therefore team-level rather than a record of personally leading petitions.

Bar / education. Admitted in Illinois and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; J.D., magna cum laude, Chicago-Kent College of Law (Order of the Coif; editor-in-chief, Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property); B.S., Mechanical Engineering, cum laude, Marquette University.

Caveats. I could not verify the third tracked entry — "Local Counsel, Potter Anderson & Corroon." The Potter Anderson firm is Delaware-based, and no Delaware admission or prior Potter Anderson affiliation appears in his Greenberg Traurig bio; the tracked entry may involve a different attorney of the same name, and the case is untitled in the source data. Treat the firm-history element of this profile as limited to Greenberg Traurig unless that entry is confirmed.