John A. Rubino

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Attorney Summary — John A. Rubino

Specialty / focus areas. Rubino's publicly docketed patent work clusters in electrical, computer, networking/storage, and automotive-adjacent technologies, handled for patent-owner clients. Beyond the tracked matter, web-searched dockets show appearances for Longhorn HD LLC (asserted against Huawei, Inventec, Advantech, Splunk, Bullitt Group, Noon Technology), NorthStar Systems LLC and ServStor Technologies LLC (NEC, Lenovo), Slyde Analytics LLC (Garmin), Modena Navigation LLC (Mazda), and AutoBrilliance LLC (Honda — vehicle sensor alignment). The tracked case, Volkswagen Group of America v. Longhorn Automotive Group, involves image-reconstruction/imaging patents (e.g., U.S. 8,085,192 and 8,265,353) asserted against a group of automakers (Volkswagen/Audi, Mazda, Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Volvo). No pharma, life-sciences, or standard-essential/Wi-Fi practice is evident in the searchable record.

Side preference. The practice is overwhelmingly patent-owner / plaintiff-side. The tracked data's single "defendant" entry is a function of the IPR caption: Longhorn Automotive Group is the patent owner/respondent opposing Volkswagen's petition, so Rubino is defending the patent (defendant-side in the VW v. Longhorn framing) while elsewhere appearing as counsel for asserting entities. Note that the one tracked appearance substantially understates the activity visible in public dockets (E.D. Tex. filings from roughly 2022–2025), so the 0-plaintiff / 1-defendant count should be read as a dataset artifact rather than a reliable side-preference indicator on its own.

Firm context. Currently Rubino IP (Short Hills, NJ), where he is USPTO Reg. No. 71,543 and NY Bar No. 5020797. Rubino IP regularly appears in tandem with Fabricant LLP (Rye, NY) and the Truelove Law Firm on the Longhorn matters; Fabricant LLP's principals (Alfred R. Fabricant, Vincent J. Rubino III, Peter Lambrianakos) were previously the Brown Rudnick IP group. Caution on name disambiguation: Law360 maintains a "John A. Rubino — Brown Rudnick (New York)" attorney page listing Longhorn HD cases, but those Brown Rudnick matters were led by Vincent J. Rubino III, and I could not verify from a firm bio that John A. Rubino himself practiced at Brown Rudnick. Treat the Brown Rudnick link as unconfirmed.

Notable cases / outcomes. The most prominent matter is the Longhorn Automotive campaign. In the pair of Volkswagen IPRs (IPR2025-00925 and IPR2025-01064), the Director/Acting Director granted Longhorn's requests for discretionary denial under § 314(a) (Fintiv), and the parallel Nissan (IPR2025-01089) and Koito (IPR2025-00955) petitions were likewise denied; IPR2025-01064 was later recorded as terminated-settled. Volkswagen then sought a writ of mandamus, and in In re Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., No. 26-123 (Fed. Cir.), the panel (Dyk, Reyna, Hughes, per curiam) denied the petition, holding non-institution decisions are committed to the Director's discretion and rejecting VW's nondelegation theory — a favorable appellate outcome for Rubino's client. Rubino is listed on the Federal Circuit related-case filings for the Longhorn matters.

PTAB / IPR experience. Yes — PTAB work is a recurring part of the practice, on the patent-owner side. He is named as back-up counsel in Patent Owner Mandatory Notices and related papers for Longhorn Automotive Group, with PTAB filings routed through Fabricant LLP.

Bar / education. Admitted in New York (Bar No. 5020797); registered to practice before the USPTO (Reg. No. 71,543). Education is not reliably sourced in the material reviewed and is therefore omitted.