Jonathan Ma

Jonathan Ma is a patent litigation attorney at Russ August & Kabat, where his practice is concentrated on intellectual property matters across a range of sophisticated technologies. He has significant experience handling litigation from pre-filing analysis through post-trial motions. Ma's technological focus areas include mobile devices and laptops, networking hardware and software, wireless communications, targeted online advertising, semiconductor processing, multi-core processors, containerization, application migration, and Wi-Fi 6 standard-essential patents (SEPs).

Ma primarily represents plaintiffs, appearing on the plaintiff side in 22 of his 27 tracked cases, often for patent assertion entities (PAEs). His client roster has included Datonics LLC, Intent IQ, LLC, Redstone Logics LLC, VirtaMove Corp., Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology Inc., and Cobblestone Wireless LLC. Conversely, he has defended clients in five tracked cases, demonstrating experience on both sides of patent disputes.

Among notable outcomes, Ma represented the plaintiff in patent infringement litigation that secured a $122 million jury verdict against Amazon relating to targeted online advertising, a dispute that subsequently settled with a license agreement. He has been involved in significant cases for Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology Inc., which assert Wi-Fi 6 SEPs and have engaged in FRAND/RAND discussions with major implementers like Samsung. His work with Cobblestone Wireless LLC has involved cases concerning 3GPP carrier aggregation and wireless network technologies against companies such as Apple, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, often resulting in dismissals with prejudice, suggesting confidential settlements.

While his firm's publicly available biography does not explicitly detail his individual PTAB engagements, cases involving his clients, such as Datonics/Intent IQ and Redstone Logics, have seen "numerous Inter Partes Review ('IPR') patent-office wins" and ongoing IPR proceedings. Additionally, patents asserted by his clients like Intent IQ, Cobblestone Wireless, and Wilus Institute have been subject to ex parte reexamination, affirming patentability for some claims. Ma earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2016, where he served as an Articles Editor for both the California Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He was admitted to practice in California in 2016.