Ellyar Y. Barazesh

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Ellyar Y. Barazesh — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Barazesh's practice centers on post-grant proceedings at the USPTO — inter partes review and post-grant review before the PTAB, plus an active ex parte reexamination docket — alongside district court patent litigation and patent prosecution/counseling. His technical foundation is electrical engineering: he examined video compression and imaging applications as a USPTO patent examiner, and his practice spans computer hardware and software, memory, networking (including Wi-Fi/IEEE 802.11 SEPs), control systems, AI, location tracking, video/image processing, semiconductors, encryption, GUIs, and medical devices, with claimed depth in autonomous vehicles/UAVs. The tracked docket mirrors this — Wi-Fi/SEP reexamination challenges to the Malikie Innovations portfolio, and graded-dopant semiconductor patents in the Greenthread dispute.

Side preference. Predominantly defense-side, though he is not a single-side practitioner at the PTAB. Tracked appearances are 2 defendant / 1 plaintiff, and the sole "plaintiff" matter is Unified Patents' challenge to an NPE-owned patent — functionally a defensive filing. His in-house tenure at Unified Patents, where his work targeted deterrence of NPE/PAE assertions, and his representation of operating companies (Dell, onsemi) reinforce that orientation. His firm bio states he represents both petitioners and patent owners in IPR proceedings, so he is best described as a defense-focused practitioner with two-sided PTAB experience rather than an NPE/PAE-side filer.

Firm context. He is a Senior Associate in Baker Botts' Intellectual Property group in Austin. Prior roles: Senior Patent Counsel in-house at Unified Patents (joined Oct. 2020; departed by mid-2023), Senior Associate at WilmerHale, and associate at Stoel Rives; earlier, student associate/patent agent at Finnegan and a USPTO patent examiner.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. PTAB/IPR work is a core, recurring part of his practice — the firm bio describes involvement in "dozens" of IPRs. Verifiable matters include: Unified Patents v. Malikie Innovations (Baker Botts; ex parte reexamination challenges to Malikie/Key Patent Innovations Wi-Fi SEP patents, 2025); Unified Patents v. MemoryWeb (IPR2021-01413), where he filed a petitioner request for Director Review in May 2023; Unified Patents v. Torchlight Technologies (IPR2022-01500); and the onsemi v. Greenthread IPR series (IPR2023-01242/-01243/-01244 and IPR2024-00263–00266), where he served as back-up counsel on a Baker Botts team led by Roger Fulghum. In the first Greenthread series the Director granted review, vacated the final written decisions, and remanded on the § 315(b) privity/real-party-in-interest issue — a point Greenthread contested — with petitioner's rehearing request denied in May 2025. He also appears in Silicon Motion IPR2024-01236 and a Longhorn Automotive (Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners) challenge. His tracked Pedersen v. Unified Patents matter (defendant, while in-house at Unified) is reflected in the case list, but I was unable to verify its substance from the sources reviewed.

Bar / education. Admitted in Texas and the District of Columbia, and registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 74,096); some third-party profiles also list Oregon, likely from his Stoel Rives tenure. J.D., Georgetown University Law Center (2017; Leon Robbin Patent Award); B.E.E., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2012).