Robert W. Litvack

Specialty / Focus Areas
Robert W. Litvack's tracked practice centers on patent litigation involving software and mobile-communications technology. His single tracked matter — Kyocera Corp. v. SoftView LLC — concerned U.S. Patent Nos. 7,831,926 and 7,461,353, which covered rendering and zooming HTML-based web content on handheld device screens. That places his work in the software/browser-technology space rather than pharma, mechanical, or life sciences.

Side Preference & Firm Context
All tracked appearances are on the defense side (1 defendant appearance, 0 plaintiff appearances), representing operating companies — specifically Kyocera, a major electronics manufacturer, against an NPE/PAE patent holder. He appeared as counsel at Troutman Sanders (now Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders after the 2017 merger). No in-house role is indicated.

Notable Case & IPR Context
The Kyocera v. SoftView matter is notable for its PTAB posture: Kyocera's inter partes review petitions (IPR2013-00004 and IPR2013-00007, the latter joined with Motorola's IPR2013-00257) resulted in PTAB decisions in March 2014 finding all challenged claims unpatentable, which the Federal Circuit affirmed in Softview LLC v. Kyocera Corp., 592 F. App'x 949 (Fed. Cir. 2015). This flags IPR/PTAB experience at least in that matter, though no broader pattern of regular PTAB appearances could be verified. Note that counsel of record on the Federal Circuit appeal were from Katten Muchin Rosenman and Kilpatrick Townsend, so Litvack's role appears to have been at the district court/IPR-petition stage.

Bar / Education
Not reliably sourced. Web searches for "Robert W. Litvack" are complicated by a same-name namesake in unrelated Canadian criminal proceedings and by memorial materials for a deceased Montreal lawyer (Robert S. Litvack); no bar admission, education, or firm biography could be independently verified, so those credentials are omitted rather than risk misattribution.