Richard Hughes

I'll research this attorney before drafting. Note the tracked case list is nearly empty (one anonymized defendant-side appearance), so I'll verify carefully and flag gaps.

Important disambiguation: the Duane Morris Richard Hughes is distinct from Richard H. Hughes IV (Epstein Becker Green health-care lawyer). Let me verify the IP practice details.

Richard Hughes — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Mr. Hughes is an associate in Duane Morris LLP's intellectual property group in Philadelphia, and his firm bio describes his practice only generically as "intellectual property law," without a stated technology focus. The publicly docketed matters bearing his name cluster in two areas: railroad positive-train-control technology (he appears as Duane Morris counsel on the SEPTA claim-construction briefing in the Wabtec/PTC litigation, and in the related PTAB proceedings) and gaming/online-betting technology (Entain/MGM/BetMGM v. GAN (UK) Limited, involving a patent on networked game play). That is a very small sample from which to infer a specialty, and any characterization beyond those matters would be speculation.

Side preference and volume. The tracked case list supplied for him contains a single entry — an anonymized defendant-side appearance — so it supports almost no inference on its own. The verifiable record is mixed: his one identified PTAB appearance was for the patent owner, GAN (UK) Limited, in an IPR brought by Entain, MGM Resorts and BetMGM; in district court he has appeared on filings for SEPTA, a transit-agency defendant. Nothing in the record shows him prosecuting claims for NPEs/PAEs. Given that he has been practicing only since 2023, he consistently appears as supporting counsel behind more senior Duane Morris lawyers (e.g., Jarrad M. Gunther at the PTAB; Aleksander J. Goranin and Leigh M. Skipper in the SEPTA matter) rather than as lead counsel.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. His most substantive documented role is IPR2023-00027 (Entain Corporate Services Ltd., MGM Resorts International and BetMGM, LLC v. GAN (UK) Limited, U.S. Patent 8,821,296), where he filed a pro hac vice declaration, stated he had worked on several motions in the proceeding, and was granted permission by the Board to argue portions of the January 5, 2024 oral hearing under the PTAB's Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP), which also earned the patent owner an additional 15 minutes of argument time. He also appears alongside other Duane Morris attorneys on docket filings in the Wabtec/SEPTA and Wabtec/Railware PTC matters. He is not, on the available record, a regular PTAB practitioner — one IPR and one LEAP argument is not an established post-grant practice, and I found no reported verdicts, Federal Circuit appeals, or settlements attributable to him.

Firm, bar and education. Duane Morris LLP (Philadelphia), associate since 2023; no prior firm affiliations found. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar on October 30, 2023 (PA #334352), and to the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. J.D., University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, 2023 (cum laude; Herbert F. Schwartz Award in IP/technology); B.A., McGill University, 2020.

Note on disambiguation: a search for this name also returns Richard H. Hughes IV, a health-care/vaccine lawyer at Epstein Becker Green in Washington, D.C., who is a different attorney with no connection to this patent practice.