Jaime Cardenas-Navia

Jaime Cardenas-Navia is a trial attorney who focuses on high-stakes patent infringement disputes. He regularly litigates against or on behalf of Fortune 500 companies in cases with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. His experience spans a variety of technologies, including video streaming, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), solar panels, nutritional formulations, and the design and manufacture of smartphones, tablets, cameras, printers, and scanners. Most recently, Jaime played a pivotal role in securing a $673 million total award in a patent infringement case for tech startup, Kove.  

Clients commend Jaime as “an excellent lawyer,” noting that his skills are “far more deadly than anyone realizes.” His achievements have earned him recognition in Crain’s New York Business 40 Under 40, Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under, Law360’s Rising Stars, The National Law Journal’s Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar and Super Lawyers New York Metro Rising Stars lists.

Updated Oct 2025

• Kove IO. Secured a $673 million patent infringement verdict for Kove against Amazon Web Services, whose patented technology covers the foundational innovations that enable and empower cloud data storage. The judge upheld a $525 million verdict and added $148 million in interest during post-trial motions. The win was the top standing patent verdict of 2024 and ranked among the top 10 verdicts of the decade. It also earned Law360’s Legal Lions of the Week recognition twice and contributed to the firm receiving Law360’s IP Practice Group of the Year honor for 2024.
  
  
• Droplets. Secured a $27 million patent infringement verdict for New York-based tech startup Droplets against Yahoo. Guided the Yahoo case from discovery through trial, and then examined multiple key trial witnesses. Droplets’ engineers fundamentally changed the way websites work—making them fast and interactive instead of slow and static. Immediately after the Yahoo verdict, RJLF secured a favorable settlement for Droplets in its co-pending case against Nordstrom.
  
  
• VideoLabs. Leading a series of patent infringement cases for VideoLabs in courts across the country, enforcing a portfolio of patents that covers foundational video technologies in bet-the-company litigation. Cases against Amazon and Apple resolved after less than a year of litigation. Continuing to represent VideoLabs against Netflix and Meta.
  
  
• Koninklijke Philips. Litigated a set of patents that cover essential user interface and security features in mobile computing devices against device manufacturers and software developers, including Microsoft, Google, Acer, ASUS and HTC.  

• Intellectual property

• Technology and telecommunications

• J.D. - Georgetown University Law Center - 2013
• B.S. - Swarthmore College - 2007
• B.A. - Swarthmore College - 2007

• Hispanic National Bar Association    

• New York    
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York    
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois    
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit