David E. Ross

Now let me verify the patent cases and his bar/education credentials.

David E. Ross — Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP (Wilmington, DE)

Specialty / focus. Ross's tracked patent docket is narrow and specialized: all four matters involve the same dispute family over LCD backlighting/display-panel patents (e.g., U.S. Patent Nos. 6,755,547; 7,300,194; 7,384,177; 7,434,974; 7,404,660; 7,537,370; 8,215,816), asserted in the District of Delaware. These are optical/mechanical consumer-electronics display patents, not Wi-Fi/standards, pharmaceuticals, or software. More broadly, his practice is not a patent practice. Firm and directory biographies (Ross Aronstam & Moritz; Chambers, Legal 500, Benchmark) describe him as a Delaware corporate and commercial trial lawyer focused on Court of Chancery disputes — M&A litigation, fiduciary duty, earnout/contract, and trade secret matters. Patent work appears as an ancillary, local-counsel function rather than a core specialty.

Side preference. Exclusively defense-side: 0 plaintiff-side appearances versus 4 defendant-side, in each instance representing LG operating companies (LG Display Co., Ltd.; LG Display America; LG Electronics, Inc.; LG Electronics U.S.A.). Opposing parties were Delaware Display Group LLC and Innovative Display Technologies LLC, entities in the Acacia/PAE-style assertion pattern. His role was local counsel in three of the four cases and "counsel" in one (LG Electronics, Inc. v. Innovative Display Technologies LLC). Nothing in the record shows him prosecuting for NPEs or acting as plaintiff's counsel.

Firm context. Founding partner of Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, the Wilmington litigation boutique formed (originally as Seitz Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, renamed after Collins J. Seitz, Jr. joined the Delaware Supreme Court in 2015) by lawyers from Wachtell Lipton, Weil Gotshal, and Kellogg Huber. Before the founding he was a partner at Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz (Delaware Chancery practice) and, from 2001–2008, a partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. He is not in-house.

Notable matters and PTAB. The most prominent tracked matters are the Delaware display-patent actions Delaware Display Group LLC et al. v. LG Electronics Inc. et al., No. 1:13-cv-02109 (D. Del.) and Delaware Display Group LLC et al. v. LG Electronics, Inc. et al., No. 1:15-cv-01221 (D. Del.), both before Judge Andrews; a November 6, 2015 claim construction opinion in the related consolidated cases (citing earlier Texas Markman rulings in IDT v. Acer and IDT v. Hyundai) is the clearest verifiable outcome, and the NC/PAE patents were also the subject of a large parallel IPR campaign. On that IPR campaign, however, the petitions were filed by LG's national counsel (Mayer Brown), and Ross does not appear as counsel of record on the PTAB papers — so there is no reliable basis to describe him as a PTAB practitioner. His higher-profile litigation wins lie outside patent law: he was Delaware counsel to Tesla/Elon Musk in In re Tesla Motors, Inc. Stockholder Litigation (SolarCity acquisition, affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court in 2023), served as counsel to Facebook in derivative and Cambridge Analytica-related matters, and has been recognized in Delaware Chancery earnout and M&A disputes (the firm was Delaware co-counsel in the Auris Health/Fortis earnout case against Johnson & Johnson, though that trial team was led by other Ross Aronstam partners).

Bar / education. Admitted in Delaware in 2008 (earlier admissions in New Jersey and Maryland 1995, D.C. 1996, Pennsylvania 2001; U.S. Supreme Court 2001), per Martindale-Hubbell and Lawyers.com. Education is reported inconsistently across directories: the most common listing (Martindale, Lawyers.com, Lexinter) is B.A., Johns Hopkins University (1994) and J.D., Columbia University (1995); one aggregator bio lists UVA/NYU instead. The Columbia/JHU credentials appear in more independent sources but should be confirmed against the firm or the Delaware bar before reliance.