Richard Edson Fee

Richard Edson Fee is a founding shareholder and head of the Litigation and Arbitration practice at Fee & Jeffries, P.A., a firm he co-founded in 1997 in Tampa, Florida. His practice focuses on intellectual property and business disputes, with a significant emphasis on patent litigation.

Mr. Fee's patent litigation experience spans various technology areas, as indicated by his firm's stated capabilities and the cases he has handled. Fee & Jeffries, P.A. routinely litigates patent infringement cases involving technologies such as biomedical devices, inventory control software, global positioning devices, and optical scanning devices. His tracked patent cases, including Ricmic, LLC v. Heritage Medcall, LLC and RICMIC, LLC v. Sentrics, Inc. et al., involve patents related to monitoring and communication systems, often within the healthcare or senior living sector.

In his patent litigation work, Mr. Fee primarily represents plaintiffs, having appeared as lead counsel or counsel of record in all four tracked patent cases on the plaintiff side, with no defendant-side appearances in the provided data. All of these matters involved RICMIC, LLC as the plaintiff. One notable case, RICMIC, LLC v. Sentrics, Inc. et al., was settled and dismissed in January 2025. While his firm's website mentions experience in proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, specific instances of his involvement in IPR/PGR proceedings were not prominently found in the accessible public records.

Admitted to The Florida Bar, Mr. Fee is Board Certified as an Intellectual Property Law Specialist. His admissions include the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida, the District of Colorado, the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English with High Honors from the University of Florida and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1989.