ND Galli Law

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ND Galli Law — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Firm overview. ND Galli Law LLC is a small IP-and-litigation boutique, not BigLaw. It was founded in 2015 by Nicole D. Galli and is headquartered at One Liberty Place, 1650 Market Street, Philadelphia, with a second office at 136 Madison Avenue, New York; a Best Lawyers firm profile also lists Louisville, Kentucky as a location. World IP Review's 2025 USA Trade Secrets profile describes the firm as having grown from one lawyer to six with paraprofessional support — a headcount consistent with a boutique rather than a regional or AmLaw-scale practice; no AmLaw 200 ranking exists for the firm. It has been WBENC-certified as a women's business enterprise since 2017. Rankings are individual- and practice-level rather than firm-wide: Chambers USA ranks Galli individually in Intellectual Property – Pennsylvania (Band 4, 2024 and 2026 editions), and Best Law Firms 2026 lists the firm Regional Tier 1 for Litigation – Intellectual Property (Philadelphia), Tier 2 for Patent Law, and Tier 3 for Commercial Litigation.

IP litigation specialty. The firm's own description centers on "commercial litigation, including all forms of intellectual property litigation," with patents, trade secrets and IP-ownership disputes as the core technical work, plus trademark/TTAB proceedings, copyright, trade dress and licensing litigation. Trade secrets is the most publicly documented strength — Galli is a founding member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 12 and co-chaired drafting teams on trade secret governance and DTSA model jury instructions, and the firm is listed in WIPR's USA Trade Secrets Rankings. On the patent side, the tracked matters involved smartphone user-interface technology — location-server-based automatic refreshing of phone displays — not Wi-Fi/standard-essential patents. Characterizing the firm as a Wi-Fi standards shop would not be accurate; its publicized technology footprint is electronics/software, life sciences (via of-counsel Deanne Cevasco's molecular biology background), energy, automotive, manufacturing, consumer products and fashion.

Side preference. The tracked docket is entirely plaintiff-side: two appearances, zero defendant-side, both for the same client, Local Intelligence, LLC. Public reporting identifies Local Intelligence as an affiliate of Dominion Harbor Enterprises, i.e., a patent monetization entity, so the firm's tracked patent work is plaintiff/patent-holder representation rather than defense of operating companies. That said, the sample is very narrow, and the firm's overall practice is mixed — its public profile and Law360 activity include trade secret, trademark and commercial matters on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. The fair read is a small mixed-practice IP boutique whose tracked patent docket happens to be NPE-side; it is not an NPE-only plaintiffs' shop.

Notable tracked cases. In Local Intelligence, LLC v. HTC America, Inc. (N.D. Cal. 5:17-cv-06437, Judge Edward J. Davila), Galli served as lead trial counsel. HTC moved to dismiss the asserted patents (U.S. Nos. 8,903,067, 9,084,084 and 9,219,982) as ineligible under § 101; the court denied the motion in April 2018, relying on Core Wireless Licensing v. LG Electronics and finding the claims to a specific improvement in user-interface technology non-abstract. In Local Intelligence, LLC v. LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. (D. Del. 1:18-cv-00271, Judge Richard G. Andrews), Galli was lead counsel with Charles P. Goodwin, asserting the '982 and '067 patents. That case was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice in September 2018 before LG answered, and the HTC case closed the same month before claim construction. No verdicts, damages awards or Federal Circuit appeals are publicly verified for either matter; reporting indicates the asserted family was returned to its original owner (TP Lab) in 2019.

PTAB/IPR and key personnel. No public record of IPR, PGR or CBM filings by ND Galli Law was located, and no public report supports a material PTAB practice; the tracked matters were district court only, and the firm's IP practice center of gravity appears to be district court litigation, trade secret counseling and IP monetization strategy rather than AIA trial work. Key practitioners: Nicole D. Galli (founder and managing member; Chambers-ranked, Best Lawyers in Patent Law every year since 2021; previously Dewey Ballantine, Pepper Hamilton and Benesch); Charles P. Goodwin (named on the LG docket, but no separately verified public profile was located); Deanne Cevasco (joined 2023; patents, trade secrets and molecular biology); and Nancy Saltzman (of counsel, joined September 2025, leading the firm's new AI practice).

Caveat: appearance counts here reflect only the two tracked federal patent matters and likely understate the firm's full docket — Law360 lists roughly two dozen matters for Galli, including trade secret and trademark cases — so the plaintiff-side skew should be read as a characteristic of the tracked patent sample rather than a definitive statement of the firm's overall client mix.