Savannah H. Carnes

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Savannah H. Carnes — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Carnes is an associate at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg (RJLF), based in Washington, D.C., whose practice is centered on complex intellectual property litigation — patent, trademark, and trade secret disputes — with a strong trial component. Her tracked and firm-reported matters span cloud/hyperscale data storage (Kove IO v. Amazon Web Services, N.D. Ill.), enterprise storage and messaging software (Valtrus Innovations v. SAP, E.D. Tex.), molecular diagnostics and genomics (Ravgen v. LabCorp; Bruker Cellular Analysis matters against 10x Genomics/AbCellera), and consumer media-delivery technology (VideoLabs/VL Collective v. Netflix). Her undergraduate training in molecular cellular biology underlies the life-sciences side of that docket; her firm bio also cites appellate briefing for Broadcom, VideoLabs, and Kove IO on patent validity, claim construction, and remedies.

Side preference. Her work is predominantly on the patent-owner/plaintiff side — the structured data shows two plaintiff-side appearances against one defendant-side appearance among three tracked matters, and her most prominent reported results (Kove, Ravgen) were plaintiff verdicts. The defendant-side work is real but secondary: she appeared for the Nokia entities in TQ Delta, LLC v. CommScope (E.D. Tex.) while at an earlier firm, and her tracked Federal Circuit appearance in the VideoLabs/Netflix dispute is a defensive-side posture. The pattern is best described as a mixed practice weighted toward representing patent owners and NPE-adjacent licensing entities, rather than a career-long operating-company defense practice.

Firm context and notable matters. She joined RJLF as an associate in November 2022; before that she entered an appearance out of The Dacus Firm, P.C. (Tyler, Texas) in September 2022. Her headline results at RJLF: a $525 million jury verdict for Kove IO against Amazon Web Services on three cloud-storage patents, which grew to a $673 million total award after the court added roughly $148 million in interest — reported as the largest standing patent victory of 2024 and among the ten largest patent verdicts of the past decade — and a $272.5 million verdict for Ravgen against LabCorp in non-invasive prenatal testing patents. On the tracked appellate matters: in VL Collective IP, LLC v. Netflix, Inc., No. 25-1132, the Federal Circuit affirmed (Aug. 10, 2026, nonprecedential) the PTAB's finding that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,440,559 were unpatentable; and in Valtrus Innovations Ltd. v. SAP America, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00021-JRG, she is listed as of-record counsel for the patent owner in the E.D. Tex. litigation, which survived SAP's intra-district transfer challenge (Fed. Cir. mandamus denied, No. 25-118, Apr. 10, 2025). One tracked appearance — a plaintiff-side Federal Circuit matter — is uncaptioned in the provided data, so no case name or outcome is asserted here.

PTAB/IPR, bar, and education. Her PTAB exposure appears largely derivative of district court and appellate work: she is counsel in disputes that generated numerous IPRs (the VideoLabs–Netflix IPR2023-00630/00891 proceedings, and the SAP–Valtrus IPRs IPR2025-00414 through -00420), but I did not verify her as a named PTAB counsel of record in those filings, so a regular first-chair IPR practice should not be assumed. She is admitted in California (State Bar No. 335438, admitted 2021) and the District of Columbia, and is a 2020 J.D. graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law (B.A., molecular cellular biology, UC Berkeley, 2014). She clerked for Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III (E.D. Tex.) and Judge Richard G. Taranto (Fed. Cir.), and co-authored a 2026 Law360 analysis of post-Halo enhanced-damages outcomes.