Brendan F. McLaughlin

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Brendan F. McLaughlin — patent litigation summary

Focus areas. McLaughlin's practice centers on intellectual property litigation across the ITC, PTAB and district courts (Fish & Richardson profile and published commentary). The technologies in his documented matters cluster around consumer electronics and device-interoperability: the Roku–Universal Electronics dispute over remote-control/codeset and HDMI protocol-configuration technology (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1200), streaming and set-top hardware, software/web-page generation and mobile-gaming technology in the IPRs he has worked on (Express Mobile; Supercell v. Gree), and audio/Bluetooth headset technology (GN Audio/Jabra). Standard-essential wireless/consumer-device portfolios appear to be a recurring thread rather than pharma, chemical or mechanical work.

Side preference. The tracked data show a single appearance, on the plaintiff/petitioner side as back-up counsel in Roku, Inc. v. Universal Electronics Inc., and that is consistent with a practice that is genuinely mixed rather than NPE/PAE-focused. Public filings show him acting both for petitioners (Roku in IPRs against UEI; Ropes & Gray on the Express Mobile joinder petition, IPR2022-00518) and for patent owners (Supercell v. Gree, IPR2020-01619), and defending operating companies as respondents/defendants (Roku in the 2020 ITC investigation; Samsung in E.D. Tex.). His ITC work for Ropes & Gray was substantially respondent-side defense of technology companies, though the firm also used him in complainant-side matters.

Firm context. He is currently an associate at Fish & Richardson P.C. in Washington, D.C. (joined in the first half of 2025; D.C. Bar No. 1671658, per a December 2025 notice of appearance in E.D. Tex.). Before that he was an associate (and earlier law clerk) in Ropes & Gray's IP litigation group in Washington, D.C. (roughly 2019–2024), where his work was concentrated in the firm's Section 337/ITC practice alongside partners Matthew Rizzolo and Scott McKeown. He also served as a judicial law clerk to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the Eastern District of Texas (2024–2025), which is documented in public filings.

Notable matters and PTAB/ITC experience. The most prominent tracked matter is the Roku–Universal Electronics campaign. McLaughlin's name appears on Roku's response to UEI's ITC complaint (Inv. No. 337-TA-1200). On the UEI side of that dispute, the Commission issued a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist order against Roku, which the Federal Circuit affirmed in January 2024 (Roku, Inc. v. ITC, No. 2022-1386), with certiorari denied in January 2025; separately, Roku's own affirmative ITC action against UEI was terminated with a finding of no violation, and its asserted patents were invalidated at the PTAB. He has meaningful IPR experience as back-up counsel rather than lead, and he writes and speaks on ITC/PTAB interaction (including Ropes & Gray's "Talkin' Trade" podcast and a Westlaw article on Director Vidal's discretionary-denial guidance). Education could not be confirmed from a firm-published source; third-party profile aggregators list a Georgetown Law J.D., but treat that as unverified. Note also that the Law360 attorney profile associates him with a different single matter (Organovo v. Cellink, W.D. Tex. 2021), which conflicts with the tracked Roku appearance — worth confirming with him directly.