Robert Bailey

Robert Bailey serves as Senior IP Counsel at NetApp, Inc., focusing his practice on intellectual property matters for the global data management and cloud computing company. His work primarily involves patent litigation and strategic patent portfolio management, particularly in technology areas such as software, networking, and data storage.

In his in-house role, Mr. Bailey operates predominantly on the defendant side, defending NetApp against patent infringement claims. Prior to joining NetApp, he accrued over a decade of experience in private practice as both an associate and a partner, where a significant portion of his work encompassed patent prosecution and patent litigation, handling patent families with both U.S. and European members.

A notable matter for Mr. Bailey includes representing NetApp in Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al. v. NetApp, Inc. (E.D. Tex., 2:25-cv-00517), where NetApp is a defendant in a patent infringement suit. In a related action, NetApp, Inc. also filed a declaratory judgment complaint against Valtrus Innovations Ltd. and Key Patent Innovations Ltd. in the Southern District of New York, seeking determinations of non-infringement for six U.S. Patents. These patents, originally from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, concern technologies relevant to NetApp's products, including systems utilizing Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), SANtricity on E-Series controllers, ONTAP, and Kubernetes integration.

While his background includes patent prosecution, specific regular appearances in PTAB or IPR proceedings for Robert Bailey (NetApp) are not explicitly detailed in publicly available records.