Anthony Q. Rowles

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Anthony Q. Rowles ("Tony Rowles") — Irell & Manella LLP, Newport Beach/Los Angeles. Bar: California (2014); registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 68,673). Education: J.D., Harvard Law School (2014, cum laude); B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2011). Sources: Irell firm bio, Martindale, Super Lawyers, PTAB powers of attorney.

Focus areas. Public practice descriptions point to high-tech patent litigation rather than a chemistry/pharma or standards-licensing specialty: mobile remote deposit capture and imaging software (USAA matters), haptics/touch-feedback hardware (Immersion), semiconductor processor architecture (Intel v. Future Link Systems), and memory-module technology (Netlist v. Samsung trial team, per Irell news). His background is electrical/computer engineering, and he handles district court cases, Federal Circuit appeals, ITC Section 337 investigations, and PTAB post-grant work, plus IP licensing and ownership disputes. Note: I found no public source tying him to Wi-Fi/802.11 standards-essential patent or FRAND work; that technology emphasis is not supported by anything I could verify.

Side preference. The tracked list shows two appearances, both plaintiff-side, both at Irell & Manella, both as lead counsel — consistent with his role as lead counsel for patent owner USAA in its mobile-deposit campaign. The wider public record, however, is mixed rather than NPE/PAE-oriented: he worked for patent owner Immersion (ITC/D. Del.), for Netlist (trial-team member in Netlist v. Samsung), and for defendant/counterclaimant Future Link Systems in Intel's declaratory judgment action. His clients are operating companies and research/technology holders asserting patents, not PAEs.

Notable matters and PTAB. Most prominent: USAA v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (E.D. Tex.) — the Irell team won a $200M jury verdict and willfulness finding (Nov. 2019) and a further $102.8M verdict (Jan. 2020) on mobile remote deposit capture patents, with the team having blocked institution of seven CBM/IPR petitions in the PTAB. He is also credited in firm materials with the Markman argument and technical domestic-industry case in Immersion v. Apple (ITC and D. Del.; settled confidentially just before the Chief ALJ's decision), and with post-summary-judgment trial strategy in Intel v. Future Link Systems (D. Del.; confidential settlement before trial). He also appeared for USAA in the Federal Circuit appeal USAA v. PNC Bank, N.A. (No. 25-1341). His PTAB practice is substantial and ongoing: lead counsel in USAA petitioner-side IPRs (e.g., IPR2021-01248, IPR2022-00050) and appointed lead counsel for USAA as patent owner in IPR2025-01326 (Regions Bank v. USAA, Aug. 2025). I did not verify post-trial or appellate outcomes of the USAA-Wells Fargo verdicts, individual IPR final written decisions, or the PNC appeal result.

Caveat on the tracked list. The two tracked entries are untitled and appear to be USAA-related matters; the counts above should be read as a two-case sample, not a full litigation history, and the plaintiff/defendant split drawn only from that sample would understate his defense-side work. Firm history: Irell & Manella appears to be his only firm since at least 2015 (pro hac vice filings as an Irell associate that year); he was elected to the partnership effective January 1, 2022 and is listed in the firm's current bio as a member of its Management Committee. No in-house or prior-firm affiliation was found in publicly available sources.