Richard M. Bemben

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Richard M. Bemben — Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC (Washington, D.C.); co-chair of the firm's PTAB Practice and a member of its Electronics Practice Group.

Specialty / technology focus. Bemben's practice centers on post-grant practice and patent litigation in electronics and computer technologies. Tracked matters and firm announcements place him in semiconductor and computer memory (Netlist, Micron, Samsung; Polaris PowerLED nonvolatile memory controllers), mobile/wireless services and location-based content delivery (Google v. Wildseed Mobile), media processing software (Akamai v. Equil IP Holdings), and e-commerce/covered business method work (Landmark Technologies, CBM2014-00026), plus mechanical consumer products (ToughBuilt Industries v. Meridian International). His technical background is electrical engineering/computer engineering, which aligns with that docket; the tracked list contains no significant pharma or Hatch-Waxman work.

Side preference. His tracked appearances are nearly even — 9 plaintiff-side and 8 defendant-side — and the record shows him working both sides of post-grant disputes rather than favoring one posture. Much of his highest-profile work is patent-owner-side: lead PTAB counsel for Netlist, for ToughBuilt, and for patent owner Equilibrium; he also has petitioner-side experience (MPHJ Technology Investments v. Ricoh, and the Landmark CBM matters). Firm materials describe him as representing both petitioners and patent owners, and he notes that dual posture explicitly in published interviews.

Notable matters and results. The most prominent is the Netlist/Samsung memory dispute, where he argued as lead counsel before the PTAB in IPR2023-00847 and won a final written decision upholding Netlist's U.S. Patent No. 10,268,608 (Dec. 2024) — a patent that figured in Netlist's $118 million EDTX jury verdict against Samsung; the Federal Circuit affirmed under Rule 36 (Dec. 9, 2025). Sterne Kessler also served as Netlist's lead ITC counsel, and the firm reported an August 2026 Samsung–Netlist settlement and five-year cross-license said to be worth up to $898 million in licensing fees. Other reported wins include IPR institution for ToughBuilt against Meridian (IPR2025-01461/-01462), discretionary denial of three SanDisk/Western Digital IPRs against Polaris PowerLED (July 2025), denial of an IPR against Equilibrium (IPR2023-00332), and Federal Circuit affirmance for Beable Education (2024). He appears on the Wildseed Mobile team in Google v. Wildseed appeals (Fed. Cir. 2026). Outcome descriptions above rest largely on firm announcements and court/PTAB filings; I did not independently verify damages figures.

PTAB / IPR experience. This is his core practice: firm and Legal 500 profiles credit him with counsel in 150+ AIA proceedings (IPRs, PGRs, CBMs) and a dozen-plus related Federal Circuit appeals; Patexia ranked him the 2nd best-performing PTAB attorney representing patent owners over 2018–2023. He is currently lead PTAB counsel for Netlist in the Samsung Petitions/PGRs, including PGR2025-00071 and IPR2025-01431.

Bar / education. J.D., George Washington University Law School (2011); M.S. electrical engineering and B.S. computer engineering, Virginia Tech. Admitted in Virginia (2011), D.C. (2012), and the USPTO (Reg. No. 68,658).