Savannah Harman Carnes

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Savannah Harman Carnes — patent litigation summary

Focus areas. Carnes's practice centers on complex IP litigation (patent, trademark, trade secret) with a technical emphasis on computer hardware/software and life sciences. Her representative matters span cloud storage and data management (Kove IO), semiconductor and computer-architecture patents covering processor bus coherency, fault-tolerant storage and messaging middleware (Valtrus Innovations v. SAP, E.D. Tex.), molecular diagnostics and non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (Ravgen), and life-science instrumentation/spatial biology and antibody discovery (Bruker Cellular Analysis). Her undergraduate training is in molecular and cellular biology, and her bios describe her as managing core technical issues in matters involving biology and data systems.

Side preference. She works predominantly on the patent-holder/plaintiff side — the tracked appearance is on the plaintiff side (0 defendant-side tracked appearances), and firm materials describe plaintiff-side verdicts for Kove IO, Ravgen, and patent-licensing entities Valtrus Innovations/Key Patent Innovations. Her patent defense work is real but secondary: at her prior firm, The Dacus Firm, P.C. (Tyler, Tex.), she appeared for Nokia in TQ Delta, LLC v. CommScope Holding Co., No. 2:21-cv-00310 (E.D. Tex.), and she has represented Bruker Cellular Analysis as a defendant against 10x Genomics and AbCellera. So: patent-owner–leaning, with operating-company defense experience.

Firm context. She has been at Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP since November 2022, based in Washington, D.C., following her time at The Dacus Firm. Note a discrepancy in the source data: the tracked case list records her role as "of counsel," while RJLF's own website currently lists her as an Associate. She clerked for Judge Amos L. Mazzant III (E.D. Tex.) and Judge Richard G. Taranto (Fed. Cir.).

Notable matters. The most prominent tracked matter is the Valtrus Innovations Ltd. v. SAP America, Inc. dispute (E.D. Tex. No. 2:24-cv-00021-JRG), in which she entered an appearance for Valtrus in February 2024; the Federal Circuit's precedential order in In re SAP America, Inc., No. 2025-118 (Apr. 10, 2025), denied SAP's mandamus petition seeking intra-district transfer out of Marshall. She was not listed among appellee counsel on the Federal Circuit order itself. Her largest verified result is Kove IO, Inc. v. Amazon Web Services, Inc., No. 1:18-cv-08175 (N.D. Ill.), where she was a member of the RJLF trial team that obtained a $525 million jury verdict (April 2024) on all three asserted cloud-storage patents, plus $148 million in interest in the August 20, 2024 final judgment — a $673 million total award. She is also credited on the team that secured a $272.5 million verdict for Ravgen against LabCorp.

PTAB / IPR experience. The record available to me does not show her personally appearing as counsel of record in IPR/PGR proceedings. The Valtrus dispute generated SAP IPR petitions (e.g., IPR2025-00416, -00418) against Valtrus's patents, so she has been on the patent-owner side of a matter with parallel PTAB proceedings, but I could not verify a PTAB appearance under her name. Treat her IPR experience as unconfirmed rather than established.

Bar / education. J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law (2020); B.A., Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley (2014). Admitted in the District of Columbia (per firm bio); California State Bar records show admission in February 2021 and list an intellectual property practice area. Firm bio also cites admission to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.