Rebecca Gentilli

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Rebecca ("Becca") Gentilli — patent litigation summary

Specialty / focus. Ms. Gentilli is an intellectual property litigator at Ropes & Gray whose publicly documented practice centers on U.S. International Trade Commission Section 337 investigations and the trade-remedy machinery around them — exclusion orders, cease-and-desist orders, general exclusion orders, modification/rescission and enforcement proceedings, advisory opinions, and CBP Part 177 ruling practice. She is a recurring contributor to Ropes & Gray's Talkin' Trade podcast series on ITC practice (2022), where her segments address ancillary post-violation proceedings and enforcement of Section 337 exclusion orders by Customs. Her one tracked litigation appearance, Roku, Inc. v. Universal Electronics Inc., involves consumer electronics and remote-control/media-device technology — i.e., streaming devices, set-top boxes and smart TV control — rather than pharma or mechanical subject matter. No district court patent docket beyond that single matter is reflected in the tracked data.

Side preference. The tracked data show one plaintiff-side appearance and zero defendant-side appearances, reflecting her role for Roku as petitioner/complainant rather than as a respondent or accused infringer. That single data point is too thin to establish a durable side preference; her ITC-focused writing is deliberately side-neutral in tone, covering remedies and enforcement strategy from both complainant and respondent perspectives. Readers should not treat the 1–0 plaintiff split as evidence of an NPE/PAE-oriented practice — Roku is an operating company.

Firm context. She is at Ropes & Gray, where she appears alongside the firm's ITC/IP litigation group (Matthew J. Rizzolo, Matthew R. Shapiro, Brendan McLaughlin). No prior firm history is reflected in the tracked data, and I could not verify any earlier employer from reliable sources.

Notable matters and outcomes. The tracked matter, Roku, Inc. v. Universal Electronics Inc., sits within a multi-front dispute between Roku and UEI spanning ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1200 (Roku as respondent) and 337-TA-1263 (Roku as complainant), related district court actions, and PTAB proceedings. Verifiable results in that dispute (not attributed to Ms. Gentilli individually): the Federal Circuit affirmed the ITC's violation finding against Roku on UEI's '196 patent, 90 F.4th 1367 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 19, 2024), rehearing denied, and the Supreme Court denied Roku's cert petition in January 2025; in the companion appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's invalidation of claim 10 of Roku's '875 patent, dismissed Roku's appeal of the 1263 determination as moot, and vacated the ITC's '511 patent findings, No. 23-1317 (Fed. Cir. June 17, 2025). Ms. Gentilli's specific contribution to those outcomes is not documented in the sources reviewed; the Federal Circuit filings identify other Ropes & Gray attorneys as counsel of record.

PTAB / IPR. She has substantive PTAB exposure and academic grounding in it: she authored A Free Bite at the Apple: How Flawed Statutory Drafting Has Undermined the Purpose of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, 67 Duke L.J. 1579 (2018), analyzing IPR estoppel and institution practice. Her tracked appearance in the Roku–UEI dispute falls within the family of IPRs Roku filed against UEI patents. The available sources do not show her as lead or first-named PTAB counsel in any proceeding, so a claim that she "appears regularly" before the Board is not supported.

Bar / education. Duke University School of Law (J.D.; author of a 2018 Duke Law Journal note). Bar admission state(s) and admission date could not be verified from the sources reviewed.