Richard Clegg

I'll research this attorney and the tracked case before drafting.

The search surfaced several different attorneys with this name. Let me narrow down to the US patent litigator.

Found a lead: a San Diego attorney, Richard A. Clegg (Cal. Bar #211213). Let me verify his identity, practice, and the Calcar appearance.

Note on identification. Multiple lawyers named Richard Clegg practice in IP-adjacent fields, none of whom is this attorney: a Mewburn Ellis (UK) life-sciences patent attorney; a Selborne Chambers (UK) commercial/property barrister; and a Wolf Theiss (Bulgaria) corporate/M&A partner. The relevant individual here is Richard A. Clegg, a San Diego attorney (California Bar No. 211213) who practiced as the Law Office of Richard Clegg.

Specialty and role. Clegg's tracked patent work is as local counsel in the Southern District of California rather than as technology-side trial counsel. His one tracked appearance, American Calcar, Inc. v. American Honda Motor Co., concerned automotive electronics — in-vehicle multimedia, navigation, and driver-interface systems claimed in a family of vehicle-information patents. Publicly filed S.D. Cal. papers from a separate matter show him serving the same local-counsel function in a life-sciences patent case (Life Technologies Corp. v. eBioscience, Inc., No. 10-cv-2127, alongside Baker Botts), so his patent exposure spans both automotive/software-adjacent and biotech subject matter. This is consistent with a local-counsel practice in which the technological substance is handled by out-of-district lead firms; an aggregated PlainSite docket profile under his name lists several hundred matters, though not all can be independently verified as his.

Side preference and firm context. The tracked data is 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side, both as local counsel. With a single appearance, no meaningful party-side preference can be inferred; the eBioscience filing (where he appeared for the defendant alongside Baker Botts) indicates he worked both sides. He practiced at his own San Diego firm, and his patent litigation work appears to have been performed in support of national firms — Baker Botts was lead counsel for the plaintiff in both American Calcar and Life Technologies.

Notable case. American Calcar is the prominent tracked matter: Calcar asserted fifteen vehicle-information patents against Honda, won a $24 million jury award and a judgment of infringement on the '759 patent before Judge Sabraw, then saw the case reversed in part on appeal. The Federal Circuit (651 F.3d 1318) reversed the denial of JMOL and held the '759 patent anticipated; on remand, the district court found the '497, '465, and '795 patents unenforceable for inequitable conduct, a ruling the Federal Circuit affirmed (768 F.3d 1185 (Fed. Cir. 2014), Newman, J., dissenting). Costs were taxed against Calcar. The patent family also drew PTO reexamination proceedings (initiated by BMW), but the record reflects no inter partes review or other AIA post-grant proceedings involving Clegg.

PTAB/IPR. No evidence found that he appeared in IPR, PGR, or CBM proceedings; his cited patent activity is district-court based.

Bar status. California Bar records show admission on December 7, 2000, with his license status now listed as resigned effective June 4, 2016 ("resignation, no charges pending"). No education information was reliably sourced, so it is omitted.