Ranganath Sudarshan

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Ranganath ("Ranga") Sudarshan — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus areas. Sudarshan is a Washington, D.C.-based patent litigator whose docket is unusually technology-diverse. Reported matters span satellite/broadband communications and standards issues, semiconductors and integrated circuits (including claim-construction work in Network System Technologies and Bell Semiconductor v. Texas Instruments), consumer electronics and smartphones, fiber optics, and 5G network deployment (advising Reliance Jio). He has also handled patents in mechanical and consumer-goods areas — off-the-road tires, textiles/bedsheets, syringes, nutritional supplements, cosmetics, agrochemicals, and expandable arrowheads — consistent with a generalist IP trial practice rather than a single technology niche. He holds a master's degree in computer science in addition to his law degree.

Side preference. The structured tracking data reflect a single appearance, on the defense side, and web-verifiable matters are predominantly defensive: he has represented Texas Instruments, Samsung, and Indo Count Global as defendants against NPE-type plaintiffs. He is not exclusively a defense lawyer, however — he co-led Covington's plaintiff-side representation of Elbit Systems in its satellite-internet suit against Hughes Network Systems. On the available record, he is best characterized as defense-leaning but not defense-only.

Firm context. Sudarshan has spent his patent litigation career at Covington & Burling LLP, where he is a partner. His first position after law school was as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Notable cases and outcomes.

• Elbit Systems Land and C4I v. Hughes Network Systems — co-led the Covington team for Elbit; obtained a $21 million jury verdict (2017) and an eventual $33 million settlement (December 2019) after appeal, per Law360's Rising Star profile of him.
• Thales Visionix v. Elbit Systems (helmet-mounted display for the F-35) — Covington defense team won on invalidity, with the court siding with Elbit on every material issue (National Law Journal "IP Hot List" coverage, 2016).
• Lexmark International v. Impression Products (Fed. Cir.) — appeared as counsel for Texas Instruments in its amicus/interest filing on patent exhaustion.
• Third Eye Surveillance v. United States (Ct. Fed. Cl.) — represented Elbit Systems of America as defendant-intervenor; he also maintains a government-contracts IP practice at the Court of Federal Claims.
• Wapp Tech Limited Partnership v. Apple — listed among Covington counsel of record.

PTAB / IPR experience. He appears in PTAB proceedings alongside his district court work, including the Texas Instruments IPR involving the Kang patent (IPR2020-01691) arising out of Bell Semiconductor v. TI; treat his PTAB practice as established but not demonstrably high-volume on the public record reviewed.

Bar / education. J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law (2006); admitted in D.C. (2007) and to the Federal Circuit bar (counsel, 2009). He has authored articles on patent practice, including Nuisance-Value Patent Suits, 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 159 (2008), and a 2024 piece on India as a patent litigation forum.

Data caveat. The authoritative case list supplied for this profile contains only one entry, rendered as "Untitled case" (defendant, Covington, counsel), and is therefore not informative about the substance of any specific matter. The case descriptions above are drawn from web sources — Covington announcements, Law360, court filings, and dockets — rather than from the tracked list, and should be verified against firm/court records before being relied on.