The Garden Law Firm

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The Garden Law Firm — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Firm overview. The Garden Law Firm, P.C. is a small Alexandria, Virginia practice, with a mailing address at 901 N. Pitt Street, Suite 325, Alexandria, and an additional Washington, D.C. address at 1725 I Street, N.W., Suite 300 (Martindale-Hubbell attorney profile for Kevin R. Garden). It is not a BigLaw firm or an IP boutique. Its self-described core practice is federal lands and government contracts work — concessioners, guides and outfitters, Forest Service and National Park Service permitting, bid protests, FOIA and administrative litigation — summarized in its own client newsletters as representing "clients nationwide in matters related to all manners of federal land use and management" (gardenlawfirm.com, Federal Lands Update). No AmLaw, Chambers, or Legal 500 ranking for the firm or for an IP litigation practice was located; the firm does not appear in those directories on the sources checked. Law360's firm page for "Garden Law Firm" lists five tracked matters, all administrative (FOIA/APA), with no patent matters.

IP litigation specialty. There is no evidence of a dedicated, standalone patent litigation practice. The firm's only tracked patent docket is Lab Technology LLC v. Alaio, Inc. et al., No. 1:25-cv-01234 (E.D. Va., filed July 24, 2025, Judge Rossie D. Alston, Jr.), a § 271 infringement suit in which Kevin Garden appeared for defendants Bitrix, Inc. and Alaio, Inc. Bitrix, Inc. is the Alexandria, Virginia-based U.S. affiliate of the Bitrix24 CRM/cloud software vendor, and the accused technology in the Lab Technology campaign family concerns telephony and communications software (the '982 display-refresh patent and related voice-messaging/location patents). The patents-in-suit in the E.D. Va. action were not verified from the docket; I have not confirmed which claims are asserted. Beyond that, Garden's own bio through his of-counsel affiliation with Int'l Legal Counsels PC (femida.us) describes software, IT, and security-company work in "copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets," contract disputes, and TTAB and GAO matters — patent infringement is not listed as a stated specialty (femida.us; legal-counsels.com).

Side preference. The firm's tracked record is entirely defense-side: 0 plaintiff appearances, 1 defendant appearance, as lead counsel. In Lab Technology v. Alaio, it is defending an operating software company against an assertion by an NPE — the plaintiff, Lab Technology LLC (a New Mexico entity), is represented by Rabicoff Law LLC, a firm known for filing numerous patent-assertion suits against telecom, cloud, and consumer-electronics defendants. The record shows no representation of patent owners or NPEs.

Notable cases and outcomes. The single tracked matter is early-stage and pending. Docket activity through September 19, 2025 shows Garden's notice of appearance for Bitrix, Inc. (Aug. 19, 2025), an amended complaint against Alaio, Inc. (Aug. 27, 2025), and consented extensions of the answer deadline, most recently to October 18, 2025. No verdict, claim construction ruling, Federal Circuit appeal, or publicly reported settlement exists. Related litigation by the same plaintiff against other defendants in the same campaign has terminated via voluntary dismissal or settlement, but nothing indicates those matters involved this firm. Garden's better-documented litigation record is administrative: FOIA and APA challenges involving the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service, and a Ninth Circuit appeal, per Law360's firm profile.

PTAB / IPR practice. No inter partes review or post-grant proceeding filed or defended by the firm or by Kevin Garden was identified in public searches, and there is no public report describing a PTAB practice or filing volume. Treat the firm as a district-court defense shop of one attorney on the patent side, without a documented PTAB capability.

Key partners / practice leaders. Only one attorney is reliably identified in connection with this matter: Kevin R. Garden, member, The Garden Law Firm, P.C. (Notre Dame, B.A. 1986; American University Washington College of Law, J.D. 1989; admitted Virginia 1989, D.C. 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 1990, Ninth Circuit 2001, per Martindale). He also serves as senior litigation counsel/of counsel to Int'l Legal Counsels PC (femida.us). No other partner or IP litigation leader was found on the firm's site, Martindale, or industry directories; firm size and attorney count are not publicly confirmed beyond the small-office addresses above, so no headcount figure should be cited.

Caveats: the case list above is the only authoritative record of this firm's patent appearances, and it consists of a single, still-open 2025 defense matter. Characterizations of the firm as having a "patent litigation practice" in the institutional sense are not supported by the sources reviewed.