Vinay K. Malik

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Vinay K. Malik — patent litigation summary

Focus and side of practice. Malik's tracked patent litigation footprint is small — two appearances, both on the plaintiff/patent-owner side (2 plaintiff, 0 defendant) — so any pattern is a weak signal rather than an established specialization. The subject matter is electronics and financial-services software: the bank-patent campaign asserting encryption, transaction-processing and web-interface patents, plus one matter docketed with Feinberg Day as trial counsel. His technical training (electrical engineering; telecommunications engineering) is consistent with networking, wireless and computer-implemented subject matter, and directory practice descriptions list cloud computing, cybersecurity, networking, biometrics and wearables. Nothing in the record shows pharma, life sciences or mechanical work. Because both tracked plaintiffs are patent holders — one of them a large patent aggregator — his observable litigation exposure is to monetization-side plaintiffs rather than to accused operating companies; he does not appear in the tracked data as defense counsel.

Firm context. Malik is currently a partner at Mannava & Kang P.C. and founder/president of VKM Law Group, with a practice concentrated in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and D.C. His two litigation appearances run through plaintiff-side patent boutiques: Feinberg Day (Feinberg Day Alberti & Thompson, formerly Feinberg Day Kramer Alberti Lim Tonkovich & Belloli, Burlingame, CA) as trial counsel, and Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles) as of counsel. Earlier positions reported in directory profiles include a student associate role at Finnegan Henderson, an associate role at DLA Piper, in-house counsel at Accenture LLP managing part of Accenture's IP portfolio, and an of-counsel stint at a patent litigation boutique (described as involving depositions, witness preparation, source-code review and motion practice).

Notable matters and outcomes. The most prominent tracked case is Intellectual Ventures I & II LLC v. PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (W.D. Pa.), part of IV's multi-defendant campaign against banks. The public outcome evidence is adverse to the patent owner: in the related CBM2014-00030, the PTAB held all claims of the '382 patent unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101 (final written decision, Apr. 24, 2015), and IV's parallel bank-litigation claims were invalidated in district court and affirmed on appeal in Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Financial Corp., 850 F.3d 1332 (Fed. Cir. 2017). I found no verdict, settlement, or Federal Circuit result attributable personally to Malik, and the second tracked matter is not identified in the source data.

PTAB/IPR, bar and education. No IPR or PGR papers were found naming Malik as counsel, so I cannot confirm regular PTAB practice — the IV patents at issue were subject to PTAB proceedings, but his name does not appear on the filings I could review. Bar and education data: admitted in Virginia (2007), D.C. (2008), New York and New Jersey, and registered with the USPTO; J.D., George Mason University School of Law (magna cum laude); M.S., Telecommunications Engineering, RMIT; B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Mumbai. These come from legal directories rather than firm or court sources. One caveat: several unrelated individuals share this name, and while the Virginia/D.C./N.J. patent attorney matches the name appearing on the Intellectual Ventures federal docket, I could not conclusively confirm they are the same individual or find a current firm bio page for him.