Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Firm overview. Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is headquartered at One New York Plaza, New York, with its other primary offices in Washington, DC and London. It is a full-service BigLaw firm, not an IP boutique. ALM data puts it at No. 53 on the 2025 Am Law 200 ($1.136B gross revenue for 2024) and No. 52 on the 2026 Am Law 200 ($1.218B for 2025), with roughly 718–740 attorneys (NLJ 500 No. 74–76; Global 200 No. 63); 2024 PEP was $5.184M. Corporate/M&A, private equity, asset management, and real estate — not IP — are its core revenue drivers, so IP litigation sits inside a broad litigation department rather than defining the firm.

IP litigation specialty. The tracked case list is a single technology story: LED/display backlighting ("light emitting panel assemblies") used in automotive lighting and LCD backlighting, litigated against Acacia-backed NPE Innovative Display Technologies. The firm's own practice description (2022 launch of its current IP litigation push) covers patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, and unfair competition, with antitrust overlap, across high-tech, consumer products, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Publicly reported matters include representing Bloomberg in a Northern District of California patent dispute brought by Core Optical Technologies, and PTAB work for Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics in the diagnostics/life-sciences space. The earlier (2015-era) practice description under Scott W. Doyle listed telecommunications, semiconductors, photolithography, computer hardware/software, digital cameras, medical devices, and biotechnology. I found no well-sourced evidence of a Wi-Fi/SEP or standards-essential patent specialty.

Side preference. The tracked counts are 2 plaintiff and 2 defendant, but all four appearances arise from one client relationship and one dispute family — Mercedes-Benz versus Innovative Display Technologies. In substance, Mercedes-Benz was the accused infringer in the Eastern District of Texas and the IPR petitioner at the PTAB; the "plaintiff" entries correspond to captions in which Mercedes-Benz was the named petitioner. Read functionally, the dataset reflects defending operating companies against NPE assertions rather than prosecuting NPE/PAE claims. The firm's broader record is mixed — it has also acted for patent owners (Longhorn as patent owner in IPRs) and for defendants (Bloomberg). There is no evidence of a plaintiff-side contingency patent practice.

Notable cases. The central tracked matter is Innovative Display Technologies LLC v. Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc. and the parallel Mercedes-Benz USA LLC v. Innovative Display Technologies LLC proceedings (E.D. Tex. No. 2:14-cv-535, consolidated into No. 2:14-cv-201), in which Fried Frank filed a coordinated IPR campaign in December 2014 and April 2015 against multiple IDT "Light Emitting Panel Assemblies" patents (including U.S. Patents 6,755,547; 7,384,177; 7,404,660; 7,434,974; and 8,215,816). At least one petition, IPR2015-01113 on the '660 patent, was denied institution on July 2, 2015; outcomes of the remaining petitions and the district court case are not fully verified in the sources reviewed. Fried Frank's 2015 arrival announcement also cited Doyle-era Mercedes/Daimler wins — a District of New Jersey summary judgment affirmed by the Federal Circuit, and a Northern District of Illinois judgment on the pleadings invalidating a driver-impairment patent — though those are firm-reported results I did not independently verify.

PTAB/IPR practice. The firm has a verified PTAB practice on both sides: as petitioner in the Mercedes-Benz/IDT IPR campaign, and as patent owner counsel for Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics in Spectrum Solutions LLC v. Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC (e.g., IPR2021-00847), where Nicole Jantzi was lead counsel and Paul Schoenhard back-up. No public report supports a firm-wide IPR filing volume figure, so any scale claim would be unsupported.

Key partners. Current leadership: Nicole M. Jantzi (Washington, DC), head of the IP Litigation Practice since 2022, registered patent attorney, Chambers USA–ranked for IP: Litigation, Legal 500 (Patents: Litigation; Trade Secrets), IAM Patent 1000, and Managing IP Top 250 Women in IP; Paul M. Schoenhard (Washington, DC), IAM Patent 1000–ranked trial lawyer who regularly works with Jantzi; and Michael A. Kleinman (New York), recognized for IP litigation. Historically, Scott W. Doyle founded and led the practice from 2015 until he departed for Greenberg Traurig in 2018, with Jonathan R. DeFosse — the two attorneys of record on every tracked matter here.

Caveat: the tracked data is thin (four appearances, 2014–2015, all one client) and predates the current IP litigation leadership. It should be treated as a historical data point rather than a current measure of the firm's patent litigation volume.