Stevens & Lee

I'll research Stevens & Lee's profile before drafting.

Let me look into the two tracked cases and the firm's PTAB work.

Let me verify the Unified Patents v. Consumeron matter and the firm's PTAB scale.

Stevens & Lee — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Firm overview. Stevens & Lee is a full-service regional firm founded in 1928 and headquartered at 111 North Sixth Street, Reading, Pennsylvania. It has grown to roughly 197–200+ attorneys across 16 offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Florida and Rhode Island, the most recent addition being a Providence, RI office via the 2024 merger with Duffy & Sweeney. Law.com's NLJ 500 ranks it 217th nationally by headcount (2025); it is not currently listed in the Am Law 200, though it appeared there historically (ranked 192 in the 2013 Am Law 200, per Philadelphia Business Journal). It is best characterized as a Mid-Atlantic regional full-service firm with a small, litigation-focused IP group rather than an IP boutique or BigLaw platform. William P. Thornton, Jr. is President and CEO; Ernie Choquette is Chairman.

IP litigation specialty. The firm's IP practice is led out of New Jersey and New York and is concentrated in electrical/computer and life-sciences technologies. IAM Patent 1000 (2025) lists Stevens & Lee among the top patent firms in New Jersey and recognizes four shareholders as leading patent professionals. Publicly described technical experience includes solid-state lighting/LEDs, solid-state memory, camera sensors, semiconductor processing, software, optics, telecommunications, medical devices (including fiber-optic and luer-access valve devices), athletic footwear, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals/biologics. Anania's bio notes service as local counsel in more than 50 Hatch-Waxman suits in the District of New Jersey, and both Anania and Eisenberg maintain Federal Circuit appellate practices.

Side preference. On the tracked record the firm skews defense-side: 0 plaintiff-side and 2 defendant-side appearances. Both tracked matters are defensive — representing Volvo Car USA as local counsel against NPE plaintiff Vision Works IP, and representing patent owner Consumeron in a PTAB dispute with Unified Patents. The small sample limits any firm-wide inference, and the firm's own attorney biographies describe work for both patent owners and defendants; Eisenberg's profile states he has served as counsel in IPRs "on behalf of patent owners and defendants." There is no basis in the tracked data or public materials to describe the firm as an NPE/PAE-side filer.

Notable tracked matters. Vision Works IP Corp. v. Volvo Car USA LLC (D.N.J. No. 2:24-cv-02021, filed March 8, 2024) is an NPE suit asserting five automotive sensor/monitoring patents ('558, '935, '251, '769, '125) against Volvo's 4-C Active Chassis, Remote Start, Start/Stop and Pilot Assist features; Stevens & Lee (Mark H. Anania) appeared as local counsel. IAM separately notes Anania's work "for Volvo" in complex disputes. The asserted patents were also targeted by Unified Patents — the '935 patent drew an ex parte reexamination final rejection in March 2024, and Unified ran a PATROLL prior-art contest on the '558 patent — though those challenges are not attributable to Stevens & Lee. Anania's published results also include summary judgment of invalidity on 45+ claims for a New Jersey medical device maker (S.D. Cal.), a willful-infringement/validity jury verdict for an international medical device manufacturer (S.D.N.Y.) affirmed in relevant part on appeal, and a Federal Circuit affirmance of summary judgment for a pharmaceutical company in a precedent-setting patent term adjustment case.

PTAB/IPR and key partners. The tracked Unified Patents v. Consumeron LLC matter is a PTAB proceeding in which Michael B. Eisenberg served as lead counsel for patent owner Consumeron; Consumeron's remote-acquisition/delivery patents were also the subject of a parallel NPE campaign against Instacart, where separate IPRs handled by other counsel ended in all challenged claims being held unpatentable. The firm does not publish firm-level IPR filing volume, and no public report supports a specific scale figure; the practice appears to be a counsel-and-defense capability rather than a high-volume petitioner shop. Practice leaders, per the firm site and IAM Patent 1000, are IP co-chairs Mark H. Anania (litigation; New Jersey) and John Maldjian (prosecution/strategy), alongside Michael B. Eisenberg (IP litigation and IPR counseling; former law clerk to Judge Timothy B. Dyk, Federal Circuit) and Elliott J. Stein (IP transactions and licensing).

Note: the two-case tracked list is a small sample; where docket specifics for the Consumeron PTAB matter could not be independently verified (e.g., IPR number), I have not asserted them.