Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc.

I'll research this case. Note the case number is an IPR (IPR2024-01310) at the PTAB, so I'll verify the underlying district court litigation, parties, patent, and procedural posture.

I have strong foundational data. Let me verify the Final Written Decision outcome, the Director Review status, and details on the parties and parallel E.D. Tex. litigation.

I have solid grounding. Let me verify the FWD outcome, any Federal Circuit appeal, and the Director Review status.

Case Overview: Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc. (IPR2024-01310)

Parties and their roles. This is not a district court infringement action; it is an inter partes review before the PTAB, captioned Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc. (d/b/a PANDA Interactive), IPR2024-01310, challenging U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218 (the "'218 patent"). The petitioner, Genius Sports Ltd., is a Guernsey-incorporated, London-headquartered, NYSE-listed sports-technology operating company that supplies official sports data, live streaming, and betting technology/content to sportsbooks and leagues (SEC Form 20-F; complaint ¶¶23–24). It is a practicing company, not an NPE, and is represented by Kirkland & Ellis (lead counsel W. Todd Baker). The patent owner, SportsCastr Inc. d/b/a PANDA Interactive, is a Delaware operating company that practices the asserted technology through its consumer video-social app (SportsCastr) and its B2B live-streaming platform (PANDA Studio) for sports media, affiliates, and betting operators; it was an early NFL Players Association-licensed platform (Complaint, 2:23-cv-00471, Doc. 1 ¶¶14–21). SportsCastr is represented before the Board by King & Spalding (Brian Eutermoser) and, after a June 2025 counsel substitution, Cahill Gordon (Andrew J. Cochran). The underlying infringement suit is SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (E.D. Tex., Marshall Div.), filed Oct. 5, 2023, with a parallel suit against Sportradar Group AG, No. 2:23-cv-00472-JRG, both before District Judge Rodney Gilstrap (PO Updated Mandatory Notices, June 20, 2025; FWD Paper 47 at 4).

Patent, accused technology, and posture. The '218 patent — titled "Systems, Apparatus and Methods for Rendering Digital Content Relating to a Sporting Event with Online Gaming Information" (Institution Decision, Paper 10 at 8) — claims a low-latency, one-to-many "socket" architecture in which a control server periodically retrieves event information (including "online gaming information," i.e., betting odds/spreads) over the Internet, a socket server pushes that information in real time to many viewer devices over a dedicated "event socket"/event-information channel, and a web server hands each client the media-source address and socket address so the video stream and synchronized betting/event data arrive over separate channels. SportsCastr accuses Genius Sports' streaming/betting-integration products — LiveData, LiveTrading, Genius Trading Services, BetVision, and In-Play MultiBet — of infringing claims 1–30 of the '218 (and three family patents, '687, '697, '088) by delivering live video with overlaid, WebSocket-pushed gaming/event data (Complaint ¶¶17, 115–133). Procedurally: the Petition (claims 1–15) was filed Aug. 23, 2024; after supplemental §325(d) briefing, the Board (APJs Parvis, Hudalla, Fenick) instituted on all claims and all grounds on Mar. 17, 2025 (Paper 10); the reconstituted trial panel (APJs Dang, Jurgovan, Belisle) heard oral argument Dec. 18, 2025 and issued a Final Written Decision on Mar. 13, 2026 holding all challenged claims 1–15 unpatentable over Ellis (US 2014/0229992), Spivey (US 2016/0036910), and Herzog (US 2015/0163379), while denying Genius' motion to exclude (Paper 47). Patent Owner filed a Director Review request on Apr. 2, 2026; Genius filed its authorized response Apr. 9, 2026, and Director Review remains pending. (In the sibling IPR2024-01311 covering claims 16–30, Patent Owner filed a notice of appeal on May 6, 2026.)

Why it matters. The case is notable on several fronts. First, it is the '218 prong of a coordinated six-petition IPR campaign by Genius against the SportsCastr/PANDA patent family (IPR2024-01305/-01307 on the '687, -01308/-01309 on the '697, -01310/-01311 on the '218), with co-defendant Sportradar filing "copycat" petitions (IPR2025-00273, -00275) seeking joinder — a classic joint-defense strategy by the two dominant official sports-data/betting suppliers facing the same E.D. Tex. suit (Sportradar Joinder Motion, Mar. 21, 2025). Second, the technology sits at the intersection of live sports streaming and in-play sports betting, a high-value market where low-latency, synchronized odds/score delivery is commercially critical — the parties' experts (Stephen Wicker for Genius; Aviel Rubin and others for PANDA) hotly contested whether Spivey's "topic queues" constitute the claimed "event sockets." Third, the Board applied the E.D. Tex. claim-construction order (Aug. 25, 2025) construing "event socket" as "a socket dedicated to a particular event," citing the Board's then-recent precedential Revvo Technologies decision — highlighting the growing district-court/PTAB construction interplay. Finally, with trial before Judge Gilstrap scheduled for late January 2026 (Docket Control Order, Aug. 5, 2024) and the FWD finding every asserted claim unpatentable, the pending Director Review (and likely Federal Circuit appeal, as flagged by the -01311 notice) will determine whether the '218 patent survives to support the Texas litigation. Caveat: I could not verify from available sources whether the E.D. Tex. trial actually occurred or was stayed/settled, or the current disposition of the Director Review; those facts should be confirmed against PACER/PTAB dockets.

Key Legal Developments & Outcome — Genius Sports / SportsCastr (PANDA Interactive) Patent Dispute

Important framing note

The docket in the case metadata — IPR2024-01310 — is a PTAB inter partes review, not the district court infringement suit. The underlying infringement litigation is SportsCastr Inc. (d/b/a PANDA Interactive) v. Genius Sports Ltd., et al., No. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (E.D. Tex., Marshall Div.), consolidated for pretrial purposes with the companion suit against co-defendant Sportradar, No. 2:23-cv-00472-JRG (lead case). U.S. Patent No. 11,039,218 ("the '218 patent") is one of four patents asserted in that litigation (with '687, '697, and '088). Below is the chronology across both tracks, with the PTAB track detailed since it is the named proceeding.

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I. Filing & initial pleadings (district court)

• 2023-10-04 — SportsCastr/PANDA sent Genius a demand letter (notice of the '687, '218, and '697 patents). (PANDA Rog Responses, Ex. 1020, IPR2024-01305)
• 2023-10-05 — PANDA filed two complaints in E.D. Tex., Marshall Division, each with jury demand: (1) against Genius Sports Ltd. and affiliated Maven entities (2:23-cv-00471-JRG, member case) and (2) against Sportradar Group AG and Sportradar AG (2:23-cv-00472-JRG, lead case), alleging infringement of the '687, '218, and '697 patents under 35 U.S.C. §§ 271(a)–(c), including willfulness. (Compl., 2:23-cv-00471, Dkt. 1; Mem. Op. & Order, 2:23-cv-00472, Dkt. 224, at 1–2, filed 2025-06-10)
• 2024-02-08 — Sportradar's U.S. subsidiaries filed a declaratory-judgment action in Delaware, Sportradar US LLC et al. v. Sportscastr, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-00170 (D. Del.), seeking noninfringement declarations on the same three patents. (D. Del. Dkt. 1; briefing summarized in DocketAlarm entry, D. Del. Dkt. 23)
• 2024-03-08 — PANDA amended the E.D. Tex. complaint to add Sportradar AG (the manufacturer); the amended pleading added the '088 patent (11,871,088) on 2024-03-15. (Delaware action briefing, D. Del. Dkt. 23, ¶¶ 16–17)
• The docket reflects a First Amended Docket Control Order (Dkt. 93) and, later, operative amended pleadings: PANDA's Second Amended Complaint (vs. Sportradar, Dkt. 126) and Third Amended Complaint (vs. Genius, Dkt. 127), both filed 2025-02-14, adding Sherman Act and Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act claims. (Mem. Op. & Order, Dkt. 224, at 2–3)
• Answer/counterclaims: I did not locate a specific, dated answer or counterclaim filing for Genius in the public search results; the docket shows extensive invalidity-contentions practice (below) and counsel of record (Kirkland & Ellis for Genius; King & Spalding and Cherry Johnson for PANDA). The specific answer date is not well-sourced here.

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II. Pre-trial motions of substance

• 2024-02-09 — Sportradar moved to dismiss the E.D. Tex. case for lack of personal jurisdiction or, alternatively, to transfer to Delaware. The E.D. Tex. denied the motion in a memorandum opinion and order (date not captured, but referenced in the D. Del. briefing). (D. Del. Dkt. 23, ¶ 27)
• 2024-03-15 — PANDA moved in Delaware to dismiss, transfer, or stay the Sportradar DJ action under the first-to-file rule. Outcome of that motion was not captured in my searches. (D. Del. Dkt. 11; D. Del. Dkt. 23)
• 2025-03-07 — Sportradar moved to amend the Docket Control Order to address PANDA's new antitrust claims (Dkt. 142); Genius joined (Dkt. 146). Granted 2025-03-28 (Dkt. 154), extending non-patent deadlines by up to 75 days. (Mem. Op. & Order, Dkt. 224, at 3)
• 2025-03-31 — Sportradar moved to strike PANDA's antitrust allegations (Dkt. 158); Genius joined (Dkt. 162). Denied by Judge Rodney Gilstrap in a Memorandum Opinion and Order (Dkt. 224, signed 2025-06-10, filed 2025-06-11), holding the Docket Control Order permitted the amendments. (Dkt. 224)
• ~2025-05-23 — Sportradar separately moved under Rule 12(b)(6) to dismiss Counts V and VI (antitrust) of the Second Amended Complaint on timeliness, plausibility, market-definition, and market-power grounds. (Ex. 1057, IPR2025-00273, filed 2025-05-23)
• Stay pending IPR: The IPR petitions (below) included Sotera-type stipulations by Genius (Ex. 1014 series, IPR2024-01310), i.e., commitments not to pursue in district court the same grounds raised in the IPRs. No stay order was located; the case proceeded on a parallel track through discovery and trial scheduling.

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III. Claim construction (Markman)

• 2024-09-23 — Scheduling/Docket Control Order (Dkt. 53) set the claim-construction sequence, with a Markman hearing before Judge Gilstrap in Marshall; deadlines were later amended by the First Amended Docket Control Order (Dkt. 93).
• 2024-10-08 — The parties filed their P.R. 4-3 Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement (Dkt. 69), later amended. (Joint CC Statement, 2:23-cv-00471, Dkt. 69; amended version attached as Ex. 2003 in IPR2024-01305)
• ~2025-04-08 — An updated joint statement (also filed in the Sportradar IPR record) shows the parties agreed on constructions for "and/or" and "at least one of," with a 3-hour Markman hearing anticipated and no live witnesses; disputed terms included preamble limiting-effect issues, "event socket," and related socket-server terms across the '687, '218, '697, and '088 patents. (P.R. 4-3 Joint CC Statement, Ex. 2003, IPR2025-00273)
• Markman ruling: I did not locate the text or date of Judge Gilstrap's actual claim-construction order in public sources. The case plainly reached the claim-construction stage (joint statements and hearing scheduling are documented), but the substantive construction ruling is not well-sourced here.

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IV. Discovery milestones with strategic significance

• 2024-08 onward — PANDA's interrogatory responses (served and filed as Ex. 1020 in the IPRs) established PANDA's willfulness theory (notice via the 2023-10-04 letter, alleged copying of its platform after a 2018 demo) and its damages/royalty contentions. (Ex. 1020, IPR2024-01305)
• 2024-12-09 — Genius served Second Supplemental Invalidity and Subject-Matter Eligibility Contentions covering all four asserted patents, expressly incorporating prior art and combinations from the parallel IPR petitions. (Ex. 2047, IPR2025-00273, docketed 2025-04-21)
• 2025-08-14 — Deposition of PANDA's expert (Rubin) taken, used in the '218-patent IPRs. (Ex. 1063, IPR2024-01305, filed 2025-08-22)
• 2026 (post-February) — After Panda-Sportradar settlement (below), Genius moved to compel disclosure of the Panda-Sportradar settlement agreement, arguing it is relevant to damages, license-value, and validity in the Genius case. Outcome not captured. (ScaleJuris, "Genius Sports Seeks Disclosure of Panda-Sportradar Settlement")

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V. Trial, verdict, post-trial motions

• Trial: The consolidated E.D. Tex. cases were scheduled for trial to commence 2026-02-27. (ScaleJuris, "Panda Interactive and Sportradar Settle...")
• Settlement (Sportradar only): In February 2026, PANDA and Sportradar announced a settlement and jointly requested a 30-day stay of the E.D. Tex. proceedings to finalize terms and file a dismissal. The Sportradar case therefore never went to verdict. Terms were confidential. (ScaleJuris, same)
• Genius case: No trial or verdict is documented as of the latest available sources; the case remained active into 2026, with the settlement-discovery dispute pending. No JMOL, new-trial, or fee motions were located (and none would be expected absent a verdict).
• Related new litigation: On 2026-05-11, Genius's affiliate Genius Sports SS, LLC sued SportsCastr Inc. in the Southern District of New York (No. 1:26-cv-03900), asserting Genius-owned patents (10,769,446; 11,120,271; 11,383,405) against PANDA Studio — effectively a counteroffensive in the broader dispute. (Justia docket, SDNY)

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VI. Parallel PTAB IPR/PGR proceedings and their effect

Genius-filed IPRs (petitions filed 2024-08-23): Genius petitioned against all three family patents, splitting claims across six IPRs: IPR2024-01305 & -01307 ('687), IPR2024-01308 & -01309 ('697), and IPR2024-01310 ('218, claims 1–15) and IPR2024-01311 ('218, claims 16–30).

IPR2024-01310 (the named case) — procedural history:

• Petition (Paper 1) challenging claims 1–15 of the '218 patent on obviousness grounds combining Ellis, Herzog, and Spivey references; PANDA filed a Preliminary Response (Paper 7) plus supplemental briefing on discretionary denial under § 325(d) (Papers 8–9); Genius replied (2025-02-10). (DocketAlarm; Petitioner's Reply, Paper 8)
• Institution granted on all challenged claims and all grounds. (FWD, Paper 47)
• PANDA Response (Paper 16), Genius Reply (Paper 24), PANDA Sur-reply (Paper 27). PANDA's merits defense argued Spivey's "topic queues" are not the claimed "event socket," that the Ellis/Spivey combination was inoperable, and pressed objective indicia (copying, commercial success). (PANDA Response, PTACTS)
• Oral argument held 2025-12-18 before APJs Thu A. Dang, Stephen E. Belisle, and Jon M. Jurgovan at USPTO headquarters (transcript also covering IPR2024-01305/01311, filed 2026-01-07). (Hearing transcript, IPR2024-01305 Paper 45)
• Genius moved to exclude portions of Ex. 2001 and Exhibits 2006–2016 (Paper 35); PANDA opposed.
• Final Written Decision (Paper 47), issued 2026-03-13: The Board determined all challenged claims 1–15 unpatentable by a preponderance of the evidence under 35 U.S.C. § 318(a), and denied Genius's motion to exclude. (FWD, Paper 47)

Related IPR outcomes: The companion '218 IPR (IPR2024-01311, claims 16–30) and the '697 IPR (IPR2024-01308) likewise produced Final Written Decisions on 2026-03-13 with "all challenged claims unpatentable" and denial of the corresponding motions to exclude. (DocketAlarm PTAB search results)

Sportradar "copycat" IPRs: On 2024-12-11, Sportradar filed six parallel petitions (including IPR2025-00273 for '218 claims 1–15 and IPR2025-00275 for claims 16–30), seeking joinder under 37 C.F.R. § 42.222(b) with the Genius IPRs. (Sportradar Updated Mandatory Notices, IPR2025-00273, Paper 8)

Director Review: A Director Review request was filed in IPR2024-01310 around 2026-03-13 (docketed as an email "Subject: IPR2024-01310 Director Review Request") and, per the case metadata, remains pending as of today (2026-08-29). (ipverse.greyb.com PTAB case page)

Effect on the litigation:

• The Genius and Sportradar IPR campaigns put every asserted claim of the '687/'697/'218 family at risk before the scheduled February 2026 trial; Genius's Sotera-type stipulations limited duplicative invalidity litigation in E.D. Tex.
• The 2026-03-13 Final Written Decisions invalidating all challenged '218 claims (and the parallel family-patent FWDs) gutted the patent-infringement theories against Genius and Sportradar on the family patents.
• The Sportradar settlement (February 2026, before the FWDs) mooted the Sportradar track; the Genius track remained active with the settlement-disclosure dispute, and the new SDNY action (2026-05-11) shifted Genius onto the offensive with its own patents.

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VII. Present posture (as of 2026-08-29)

1. IPR2024-01310: Final Written Decision (2026-03-13) holding claims 1–15 unpatentable; Director Review pending.
2. E.D. Tex. Genius case (2:23-cv-00471): Active; no verdict; post-settlement discovery dispute pending; likely to be substantially impacted by the IPR invalidations.
3. E.D. Tex. Sportradar case (2:23-cv-00472): Settled February 2026, dismissal anticipated; confidential terms.
4. SDNY case (1:26-cv-03900): New Genius-vs.-SportsCastr patent suit filed 2026-05-11.

Source-strength caveats: The FWD content, IPR docket papers, and E.D. Tex. orders (Dkt. 224, Dkt. 53, Dkt. 69) are well sourced. Not well sourced: Genius's formal answer/counterclaims date; the substance of the Markman ruling; the Delaware DJ action's final disposition; and the current status of Genius's motion to compel the Panda-Sportradar settlement. Those items should be verified on PACER before being relied upon.

I'll research the counsel of record for this case. Note that IPR2024-01310 is an inter partes review before the PTAB, so the analogous "plaintiff" party is the Petitioner, Genius Sports Ltd. I'll confirm the counsel of record from the PTAB docket and related sources.

I have strong initial results. Let me verify the complete current counsel list (post-withdrawal), the hearing transcript counsel, and the related district court case to make sure I capture everyone accurately.

I have the core counsel list confirmed. Let me gather brief background details on the key attorneys to provide the requested experience notes.

Important framing note

IPR2024-01310 is an inter partes review before the PTAB, not a district court patent infringement case. The party corresponding to "plaintiff" is the Petitioner, Genius Sports Ltd. (The underlying infringement suit is SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (E.D. Tex.), where SportsCastr is the plaintiff and Genius Sports is the defendant — that posture is reversed from the caption you provided.) The counsel of record below is for Genius Sports Ltd. as Petitioner in the IPR.

Counsel of record for Genius Sports Ltd. (Petitioner / "plaintiff" analog)

Per Petitioner's updated designation of lead/back-up counsel and Power of Attorney filed December 5, 2025 (PTAB, IPR2024-01310; mirrored in the related IPR2024-01307/01308 dockets), and the oral-hearing transcript of December 18, 2025:

1. W. Todd Baker — Lead Counsel

• Firm/Location: Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004 (USPTO Reg. No. 45,265).
• Note: K&E partner and lead counsel across the entire family of six related Genius Sports v. SportsCastr IPRs (IPR2024-01305, -01307, -01308, -01309, -01310, -01311); he personally argued the December 18, 2025 oral hearing for the '218 patent. Sources: Updated designation/power of attorney (Dec. 5, 2025); hearing transcript (entered Jan. 7, 2026, covering IPR2024-01305 et al., including IPR2024-01310).

2. Nikhil Rama Krishnan — Backup Counsel

• Firm/Location: Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 333 West Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654 (Reg. No. 68,879).
• Note: Appeared with Baker at the December 18, 2025 oral hearing; listed as backup counsel in the updated December 5, 2025 designation. No specific biography was verifiable in my search, so I can't characterize his prior matters beyond this docket.

3. Jeanne M. Heffernan, P.C. — Backup Counsel (pro hac vice)

• Firm/Location: Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 401 W. Fourth Street, Austin, TX 78701 (other filings list 401 Congress Avenue, Austin).
• Note: Designated backup counsel after Dinnella's withdrawal (see below); also lead district-court counsel for Genius Sports in the co-pending E.D. Tex. litigation (SportsCastr v. Genius Sports, 2:23-cv-00471-JRG), where she signed the Sotera stipulation and is listed on district-court filings alongside James Lomeo, Joshua Simmons, and Patrick Arnett. Sources: Board Order Granting Motions to Withdraw Counsel (Paper 36, Nov. 24, 2025); Genius Sports' Sotera Stipulation (Ex. 1021, IPR2024-01305).

4. Socrates L. Boutsikaris — Backup Counsel (pro hac vice, added late in the proceeding)

• Firm/Location: Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004.
• Note: K&E associate; former USPTO patent examiner for 6+ years; patent litigator with district-court experience in medical device, oil & gas, 5G, and video streaming matters; also counsel for Genius in the co-pending E.D. Tex. litigation; argued at the December 18, 2025 hearing as a LEAP practitioner (granted additional argument time). Sources: Declaration of Socrates L. Boutsikaris (Ex. 1071, Dec. 9, 2025); LEAP request/order (Dec. 12, 2025); hearing transcript.

5. Michael T. Dinnella — Former backup counsel (withdrawn)

• Firm/Location: Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Austin, TX (Reg. No. 82,580; later listed with a personal email).
• Note: Was backup counsel on the petition but terminated his employment with Kirkland & Ellis; the Board granted his unopposed withdrawal on November 24, 2025 (IPR2024-01310, Paper 36, granting the motion at Paper 34). He is no longer counsel of record in this proceeding.

If you actually meant the district court infringement case

In SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (E.D. Tex. Marshall Div., filed Oct. 5, 2023), the plaintiff SportsCastr is represented by King & Spalding LLP (Christopher C. Campbell, Matthew D. Wood, Britton F. Davis, Patrick Lafferty) and Cherry Johnson Siegmund James PLLC (Greg Love, Mark Siegmund, William Ellerman), with Scheef & Stone's Michael C. Smith as local counsel — while Genius Sports (defendant) is represented by Kirkland & Ellis (Heffernan, James Lomeo, Joshua Simmons, Patrick Arnett). Sources: Joint claim construction filing (Feb. 7, 2025) entered as Ex. 2003 in IPR2025-00273; E.D. Tex. docket in 2:23-cv-00471-JRG.

Bottom line

For the IPR as captioned in your metadata (Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc., IPR2024-01310), the petitioner's counsel of record are W. Todd Baker (lead) and Nikhil R. Krishnan, Jeanne M. Heffernan, and Socrates L. Boutsikaris (backup) — all Kirkland & Ellis LLP — with Michael T. Dinnella having been formally withdrawn in November 2025. No filings are sealed that would obscure counsel, and all named attorneys appear on the public PTAB docket.

Preliminary clarification on the "case" and the "defendant"

The matter in the metadata — Genius Sports Ltd. v. SportsCastr Inc., IPR2024-01310 — is an inter partes review at the PTAB, not a district-court patent infringement case. In that proceeding the parties are Petitioner Genius Sports Ltd. and Patent Owner SportsCastr Inc. (d/b/a PANDA Interactive). Treating the patent owner as the "defendant" side (per the case metadata), the counsel of record for SportsCastr are identified below, with the important caveat that SportsCastr changed lead counsel mid-proceeding (July 2025).

The underlying infringement litigation is SportsCastr Inc. v. Genius Sports Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-00471-JRG (E.D. Tex.) (and the related Sportradar case, 2:23-cv-00472), where the roles are reversed: SportsCastr is the plaintiff and Genius Sports is the defendant. I flag that distinction at the end.

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Counsel of record for SportsCastr Inc. (Patent Owner / "defendant") in IPR2024-01310

Current counsel (after substitution granted July 2025)

1. Andrew J. Cochran — Lead Counsel

• Firm/Office: Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, 32 Old Slip, New York, NY 10005 (Reg. No. 69,620; acochran@cahill.com; 212-701-3000).
• Source: Patent Owner's Updated Mandatory Notices, Paper 19 (June 20, 2025) (PTAB IPR2024-01310); Order Granting Patent Owner's Motions to Substitute Lead Counsel, 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 (entered July 9, 2025, covering IPR2024-01305, -01307, -01308, -01309, -01310, -01311, and IPR2025-00251/-00252).
• Experience note: Partner at Cahill (confirmed by his email signature in the PTAB record). He is the one who requested authorization to substitute lead counsel for SportsCastr across the entire Genius Sports and Sportradar IPR waves (May 14, 2025 email to the PTAB), indicating he took over the defense of the PANDA streaming-patent portfolio mid-litigation. His broader patent litigation resume is not detailed in the record I found.

2. Colleen Tracy James — Backup Counsel

• Firm/Office: Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, 32 Old Slip, New York, NY 10005 (Reg. No. 52,295; ctracyjames@cahill.com).
• Source: Same Updated Mandatory Notices (Paper 19) and the July 9, 2025 substitution Order.
• Experience note: A USPTO-registered practitioner (Reg. No. 52,295); served as the designated back-up for SportsCastr in IPR2024-01310 and the parallel IPRs after the Cahill substitution. No specific notable past cases were identified in the available record.

Former counsel of record (withdrawn effective July 9, 2025)

The Board's substitution Order expressly withdrew the attorneys designated in Patent Owner's prior mandatory notices (Paper 4): Brian Eutermoser, Mikaela Stone, and Kevin J. Duffy — all of King & Spalding LLP.

3. Brian Eutermoser — Former Lead Counsel (King & Spalding LLP, Denver)

• Firm/Office: King & Spalding LLP, 1401 Lawrence Street, Suite 1900, Denver, CO 80202 (Reg. No. 64,058; beutermoser@kslaw.com).
• Source: Notice of Filing Date Accorded (Sept. 24, 2024) listing Eutermoser and Mikaela Stone as Patent Owner counsel; Patent Owner's Updated Mandatory Notices (Paper 19, signed by Eutermoser as "Counsel for Patent Owner"); July 9, 2025 substitution Order (withdrawal); GreyB/IPVerse counsel lists show "Respondent Counsel: Eutermoser, Brian et al."
• Experience note: He was SportsCastr's original PTAB lead across the entire Genius Sports IPR wave (IPR2024-01305 through -01311) and the Sportradar IPRs (IPR2025-00265 et seq.), and King & Spalding was publicly identified as PANDA's litigation counsel in the underlying E.D. Tex. cases (Content+Technology, "Monumental Lawsuit in Sports Betting Arena Could Reshape Industry"). I did not find a fuller bio in the sources retrieved.

4. Mikaela Stone — Former Backup Counsel (King & Spalding LLP)

• Listed as Patent Owner counsel in the Notice of Filing Date Accorded (Sept. 24, 2024); withdrawn by the July 9, 2025 Order. No office address or notable-cases detail appeared in the retrieved record.

5. Kevin J. Duffy — Former Backup Counsel (King & Spalding LLP)

• Identified only in the July 9, 2025 substitution Order as one of the prior-notice attorneys withdrawn. No further detail surfaced in the available record.

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Post-substitution docket confirmations

• Nov. 24, 2025 Order Granting Motions to Withdraw Counsel (37 C.F.R. § 42.10) — This order concerns Petitioner's counsel (withdrawal of backup counsel Michael T. Dinnella for Genius Sports; W. Todd Baker and Jeanne M. Heffernan of Kirkland & Ellis continued). It confirms that as of late November 2025 the Patent Owner's counsel of record were Andrew J. Cochran and Colleen Tracy James (Cahill Gordon & Reindel). (See Order in IPR2024-01305, Paper 35, covering IPR2024-01310 at Paper 34.)
• Oral argument (Dec. 18, 2025) — Patent Owner's demonstratives were filed Dec. 17, 2025 (Paper 44). The hearing transcript (Paper, Jan. 7, 2026) would show who argued, but I did not retrieve it; the counsel of record at that time were Cochran/James.
• Director Review (pending) — Patent Owner filed a Request for Director Review on April 2, 2026; the Final Written Decision issued March 13, 2026, and the proceeding is currently pending Director Review. The signatory of the Director Review request was not in the sources I retrieved, but the counsel of record remains Cochran/James absent a further substitution. Nothing indicates any filings are sealed.

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If you meant the underlying district court infringement case (2:23-cv-00471, E.D. Tex.)

Note the role reversal: there, SportsCastr is the plaintiff and Genius Sports (and affiliated Maven entities) are the defendants. Per the E.D. Tex. docket calendar (exhibited in a related IPR, IPR2025-00269, Ex. 1052) and the company's public announcement, King & Spalding LLP represented SportsCastr/PANDA, with Texas-based and other attorneys on the SportsCastr side including Patrick Michael Lafferty, Gregory Phillip Love, Brett Aaron Mangrum, Edward Moss, Ari B. Rafilson, Rahul Sarkar, Mark Douglas Siegmund, and Matthew David Wood. The Genius Sports defendants in that case are represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP (e.g., Jeanne M. Heffernan, James John Lomeo, Joshua L. Simmons, Patrick Arnett, W. Todd Baker, Guy Ruttenberg, Kevin M. Neylan Jr., Samuel Carno Leifer). If the user's question is directed at the E.D. Tex. case rather than the IPR, I can pull the full appearance list for either side separately.

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Bottom line

In IPR2024-01310, the counsel of record for SportsCastr Inc. (patent owner/respondent) are:

• Andrew J. Cochran (lead, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York) — current, since July 2025.
• Colleen Tracy James (backup, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York) — current, since July 2025.
• Brian Eutermoser, Mikaela Stone, Kevin J. Duffy (King & Spalding, Denver) — former counsel of record, withdrawn by Board order July 9, 2025.

I did not fabricate any attorney bios; the experience notes above are limited to what is supported by the PTAB docket, the substitution order, the mandatory notices, and the trade-press announcement cited.