Richard Cowell

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Richard M. Cowell — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty / focus. Cowell is a patent litigator whose docket centers on electronics and computer-related technologies, consistent with his technical background (B.S. and M.S. in computer science; five years as an engineer on military radar software/firmware before law school). Publicly searchable matters show him working on wireless audio and voice-processing patents (the Jawbone Innovations campaigns against Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon and Meta), mobile-payment and smart-card technology (RFCyber's e-purse/secure-element patents), and semiconductor/electronics patents (the Harbor Island Dynamic matter, where Samsung and NXP are the IPR petitioners). His firm bio cites experience spanning software and hardware, streaming, semiconductor and mechanical products, plus Section 337 work at the ITC.

Side preference. He is genuinely two-sided rather than aligned with one camp. The authoritative case list shows 5 defendant-side and 2 plaintiff-side appearances, but several of those entries are PTAB proceedings in which his client (e.g., Samsung) is the petitioner — the label flips relative to district court. In practice his highest-profile district court work has been for patent owners/NPEs (Jawbone Innovations, RFCyber), while the Harbor Island Dynamic entries place him on the operating-company side. Firm press describing his practice notes representation of both plaintiffs and defendants.

Firm context. He is a partner at Fabricant LLP (also styled Fabricant Rubino & Lambrianakos LLP), Rye, New York, which he joined as counsel in November 2020. Before that he was of counsel (2017–2020) and an associate (2012–2016) at Desmarais LLP, and an associate at Kenyon & Kenyon from 2007 to 2012. He is not in-house.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. He appears regularly in IPR/PGR proceedings, not just district court. He is listed as lead counsel for Jawbone in IPR2023-01127 (Meta Platforms v. Jawbone) and appeared for the patent owner in the Apple v. RFCyber IPRs (IPR2022-00412/00413), where he argued at the April 2023 oral hearing; he also handled the Amazon v. Jawbone IPRs and deposed petitioner experts. On the district court side he was on the Jawbone team in the W.D. Tex. cases against Apple, Google and Samsung and in the mandamus opposition in In re Google, where the Federal Circuit ultimately granted Google's petition and ordered transfer to the N.D. Cal. (58 F.4th 1379) — an adverse result for his client. He has appeared for RFCyber in litigation against Samsung, Google, Apple and (in 2024) Costco. His firm bio states he has argued multiple Federal Circuit appeals and defeated IPR challenges, but I could not independently verify specific appellate outcomes from the sources reviewed.

Bar / education. Admitted to the New York bar in 2008 (N.Y. Reg. No. 4617759; USPTO Reg. No. 79,143); J.D., NYU School of Law (2007), where he was executive articles editor of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law.

Caveats: the tracked docket data are largely drawn from PTAB and district filings and are incomplete as to results; no verified damages awards or verdicts specific to Cowell's individual role were located, so none are asserted here.