Peter Mikhail

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Peter Mikhail — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Every tracked appearance for Mr. Mikhail is a patent-infringement suit brought by Intellectual Ventures (IV) entities against financial institutions. The underlying technology in these matters is computer networking and network/online-banking security — the asserted IV patents covered intrusion detection, packet filtering, security-certificate management, and centralized "data collection and processing" over networks. Based on the tracked docket, his practice is concentrated on software/network-technology patents rather than pharma, chemical, or mechanical arts, though the case list is small (six appearances) and does not support broader claims about his full technical range. A separate 2013 court filing (Nalco Co. v. Turner Design, N.D. Cal. 3:13-cv-02727) lists him as counsel of record, indicating some coverage of other technology areas as well.

Side preference. He is exclusively plaintiff-side: the authoritative counts are 6 plaintiff appearances and 0 defendant appearances. In practice this means he has worked almost entirely for patent owners/monetization entities — in this instance, as outside litigation counsel to Intellectual Ventures, one of the most active NPE/PAE plaintiffs — rather than defending operating companies. No defense-side representation appears in the tracked data.

Firm context. Two patent-litigation boutiques appear: Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson LLP (Menlo Park, CA), where he held the most tracked roles (associate, trial counsel, PHV counsel) and was IV's outside counsel on the bank suits; and Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles), where he was listed as of counsel in the IV I & II v. PNC matter. Court filings confirm him as a Feinberg Day attorney bearing California State Bar No. 214638 (pmikhail@feinday.com). His current firm is not established by the tracked list or the sources reviewed, and I could not verify his firm history before Feinberg Day or any prior boutique/AmLaw firm roles from reliable sources.

Notable cases and outcomes. The prominent tracked matters are Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (where he is listed as trial counsel) and the related IV campaigns against PNC Financial Services Group and BBVA Compass Bancshares. Publicly reported outcomes in these IV bank cases went against the patent-owner side: the PTAB invalidated asserted claims in the related IPRs (e.g., IPR2014-00801 against the '084 patent), and the Federal Circuit affirmed (see Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Compass Bank / Commerce Bancshares, Fed. Cir. Dec. 9, 2016; IV II v. JPMorgan Chase/Citigroup, Fed. Cir. Dec. 17, 2018). Because those decisions post-date and run contrary to his clients' positions, they should be read as adverse results rather than wins attributable to him.

PTAB / IPR experience. The IV bank litigation was heavily paralleled by IPR and covered-business-method proceedings that drove the district-court outcomes, so Mr. Mikhail's matters were closely intertwined with PTAB practice. However, the tracked appearances are all district-court; the structured data does not affirmatively show him as counsel of record in any specific IPR/PGR, and I could not verify direct PTAB filings under his name.

Bar / education. Admitted in California (State Bar No. 214638), confirmed via federal court filings. Education and additional admissions are not reliably sourced in the material reviewed and are therefore omitted.

Note on disambiguation: Several individuals share this name, and some public-records aggregators conflate them; I did not rely on those sources, and unsourced firm/education details for a similarly named attorney were excluded.