Rachel K. Clapp

Attorney summary — Rachel K. Clapp (Dontzin Nagy & Fleissig)

Tracked record and side of practice. Ms. Clapp's tracked litigation record consists of only two matters, both on the defense side (0 plaintiff-side appearances), with Dontzin Nagy & Fleissig of record in each. One of the two is identified in the tracked data as a local-counsel role, which typically signals participation in a multi-firm defense team rather than lead responsibility for the merits. Because the underlying matters are untitled in the source data, no technology area can be assigned to either case from the tracked list alone, and neither is identified as a patent case in the available record. The defense-only profile is consistent with the firm's general practice posture rather than with NPE/PAE-side prosecution of claims.

Firm context. Ms. Clapp's firm, Dontzin Nagy & Fleissig LLP, is a New York commercial-litigation boutique (formerly at 980 Madison Avenue, now 31 East 62nd Street) known principally for high-stakes business, securities, and financial-institution defense work rather than as a patent prosecution shop. Her name appears alongside the firm's founding partners in an earlier signed filing by the predecessor "Dontzin Law Firm LLP" dated November 30, 2012, indicating a long tenure with the firm or its predecessor. Searches of currently indexed DNF attorney rosters and pro hac vice submissions did not surface a current firm biography for her, and I could not verify her present practice setting through firm or court sources; public professional-profile aggregators suggest a later move to a legal-services organization, but that is not a source I would treat as reliable for this profile and I have not relied on it.

Patent-specific and PTAB experience. No IPR, PGR, or CBM filings listing Ms. Clapp as counsel were located, so there is no verified PTAB practice to report for her personally. At the firm level, DNF counsel appeared for defendants in PTAB covered-business-method review CBM2014-00157 concerning U.S. Patent No. 6,314,409 (claim-construction hearing transcript lists Tibor L. Nagy for the defendants), and the firm has appeared for financial-institution defendants such as JPMorgan Chase in patent-adjacent litigation; those are firm-level, not attributable to Ms. Clapp.

Notable cases, bar, and education. I could not verify any verdict, settlement, or Federal Circuit outcome attributable to her by name, and the two tracked matters cannot be named. Similarly, no reliably sourced bar-admission or education information was located, so those details are omitted here rather than reported secondhand. In short, the verifiable record supports a description of a defense-side general commercial litigator at a New York boutique with at most incidental patent exposure — not an established patent-litigation or PTAB specialist — and the limited sample size (two matters) means any characterization of specialty should be treated as provisional.