Benjamin Mathes Haber

Benjamin Mathes Haber — Patent Litigation Summary

Specialty / focus. Haber is an IP litigator at O'Melveny & Myers (Los Angeles) focused on complex patent and technology-intense disputes, with a physics background (B.A., University of Colorado Boulder) and experience spanning mobile communications, voice/UI and software, video processing, aerospace systems, and medical devices, per his firm bio. His practice is heavily weighted toward PTAB trial work: he has appeared in dozens of IPR/PGR proceedings on both sides and is ranked by Chambers USA (2025) in Patent Trial and Appeal Board — Nationwide, where the directory describes him as representing both petitioners and patent holders, particularly in the tech industry.

Side preference. The tracked matter data shows a strictly defense-side profile to date (1 defendant appearance, 0 plaintiff). Web-verified IPR and litigation work confirms this: he has served as lead or back-up IPR counsel for Google, Samsung, Disney, Infineon, and Uber, i.e., operating companies fending off NPE/PAE patent assertions. His firm bio notes that he has appeared for both petitioners and patent owners before the PTAB, so his practice is not exclusively defense, but his public record is dominated by defending technology companies.

Firm context. Haber is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers. Before joining the firm he served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, where he helped draft the 2019 Revised Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and PTAB trial-procedure rules. Earlier in his career he worked as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Northrop Grumman, and he teaches patent law as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School. A directory listing suggests an earlier stint at Irell & Manella, but that is not independently confirmed.

Notable cases, PTAB experience, and credentials. His most prominent matter is Parus Holdings, Inc. v. Google LLC, where he served as IPR lead counsel for Google. The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB's unpatentability findings on Parus's voice-browser patents in a precedential 2023 opinion (Nos. 2022-1269, -1270, Judge Lourie), and later affirmed § 101 invalidity of the '402 patent (2025); in the related '705-patent appeal, the Federal Circuit agreed with Google's claim-construction positions and vacated/remanded the Board's decision (July 2026) — consistent with his bio's account of complete victories on three of four related IPRs. He is a regular PTAB practitioner, with multiple instituted IPRs on behalf of Samsung (smart-ring patents), Infineon, and Disney also verifiable in the record. He is admitted to the California Bar (2012), registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 67,129), and holds a J.D. from Loyola Law School (magna cum laude, Order of the Coif).