Kyril Vladimir Talanov

Specialty / focus. Kyril Vladimir Talanov is a Houston-based patent litigator whose practice is concentrated on plaintiff-side patent and trade-secret disputes across software/communications and electronics technologies (email/webmail platforms, wireless and Bluetooth-related standards, smartphones, oilfield tools, and medical devices). He holds a chemical engineering degree and worked as a process engineer at ExxonMobil and Black & Veatch before law school; per his prior firm AZA's published bio, he "emphasizes his practice on patent litigation." The two tracked cases — Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Mailgun Technologies, Inc. and Peter Henrik Pedersen v. Ziff Davis, Inc. — both involve an individual inventor's campaign asserting a single email-management patent (U.S. 6,965,920) against email marketing and webmail providers.

Side preference. All tracked appearances are plaintiff-side (2–0), and his broader docket confirms a consistent plaintiff/patent-owner posture: appearances for CTD Networks v. Microsoft, Ortiz & Associates v. Ricoh USA, WFR IP v. Apple, M4siz v. Target, and similar cases, virtually always alongside firm founder William P. Ramey III. No tracked or readily searchable defendant-side work surfaced.

Firm context. Talanov currently practices at Ramey LLP (formerly Ramey & Schwaller LLP) in Houston, where he appears with Ramey on high-volume W.D. Tex. patent assertions. Before that he was an IP associate at Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing (AZA), joining in November 2012.

Notable cases/outcomes. The Mailgun case was dismissed with prejudice under a joint stipulation (settlement) before Judge Albright, with each side bearing its own fees; the Ziff Davis matter is part of the same campaign. His most prominent reported result is Rembrandt Wireless v. Samsung (E.D. Tex., Marshall), where the AZA trial team — including Talanov — won a $15.7 million jury verdict in February 2015 on Bluetooth "enhanced data rate" patents, which Judge Gilstrap upheld on post-trial motions. PTAB/IPR: no evidence of regular IPR practice; a Unified Patents-derived database shows a small number of PTAB appearances, all as patent owner, which is consistent with his NPE-side district court work. Bar/education: Texas bar (2010); J.D., University of Houston Law Center (2010); B.S. chemical engineering, Texas Tech University (2002) — per AZA's announcement and Martindale.