Counsel registry

Dority & Manning

10 case appearances — 3 as plaintiff counsel · 7 as defendant counsel.

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Attorneys

Roles

backup counsel4
PTAB counsel2
defense merits counsel (patent)2
IPR counsel2
backup counsel (PTAB)2
counsel2
defense counsel2
backup counsel (Piper Networks)2
defendant counsel2
of counsel2

Cases (10)

Δ defendantMetrom Rail, LLC v. Ground Transportation Systems USA Inc. (formerly Thales; now Hitachi Rail GTS USA Inc.) et al.Steven A. Moore · backup counsel (PTAB)
Δ defendantMetrom Rail, LLC v. Ground Transportation Systems USA Inc. (now Hitachi Rail GTS USA Inc.) et al.Steven A. Moore · of counsel
Δ defendantMetrom Rail, LLC v. Ground Transportation Systems USA Inc. (subsequently Hitachi Rail GTS USA Inc.) et al.Steven A. Moore · PTAB counsel
Δ defendantMetrom Rail, LLC v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority et al.Nicole Cunningham · defense merits counsel (patent)
π plaintiffSiemens Mobility, Inc. et al. v. Metrom Rail, LLCSteven A. Moore · backup counsel
Δ defendantSiemens Mobility, Inc. et al. v. Metrom Rail, LLCNicole S. Cunningham · IPR counsel
π plaintiffSiemens Mobility, Inc. v. Metrom Rail, LLCNicole S. Cunningham · counsel
π plaintiffSiemens Mobility, Inc. v. Metrom Rail, LLCNicole S. Cunningham · backup counsel (Piper Networks)
Δ defendantSiemens Mobility, Inc. v. Metrom Rail, LLCNicole S. Cunningham · defense counsel
Δ defendantSiemens Mobility, Inc. v. Metrom Rail, LLCNicole S. Cunningham · backup counsel

Further reading

Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories (2012)
The two-step framework defendants now recite from memory comes from Mayo, not Alice. Mayo is the often-overlooked but doctrinally essential ancestor of every modern § 101 motion.
District court vs. PTAB: where to fight a patent challenge
Every defendant who actually fights a patent ends up choosing — sometimes implicitly — between district court invalidity, PTAB IPR, or both in parallel. The trade-offs are not symmetric; the choice often determines the case.
The Patent Scam (2017): a documentary on the patent troll industry
Most people learn about patent trolls only when they get sued by one. The Patent Scam does the work of making the problem concrete before that happens.
Patent law glossary
Sixty-plus patent-law terms, defined in one or two sentences each, with a link to the deeper article. The universal landing pad when an article uses a term you don't know.
How to read a patent claim
A patent has a 50-page specification, a fancy abstract, and a row of figures. Lawyers and courts look at none of that. They look at the claims.

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