Rick L. Rambo

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Rick L. Rambo — Patent Litigation Profile

Specialty / focus areas. Mr. Rambo's practice centers on patent and complex technology litigation, with a documented concentration in computer and server architecture, networking, software, wireless/communications technology, internet protocols and standards, and semiconductors. His tracked matters reflect that mix: inkjet printing hardware (Slingshot Printing/HP), power-management semiconductors (Monolithic Power Systems/Reed Semiconductor), wireless and cellular technology (Nokia v. HP), and cloud/artificial-intelligence computing (Magma Scientific v. AWS, involving a deep-neural-network patent asserted against AWS EC2). His firm bio also lists printer, digital camera, smartphone, wearable, DVD-software, secure-online-banking, and energy/seismic-acquisition technologies, and notes prior professional experience as a software engineer and president of a 3-D graphics software company.

Side preference. He is a defense-side litigator. All twelve tracked appearances are on the defendant side — zero plaintiff-side appearances — and his clients in the tracked matters are operating companies: HP, Amazon Web Services, Hyundai, Reed Semiconductor, and (per court records) Nikon, LG, NEC, and financial-services institutions. Much of this docket is defending established technology companies against NPE/PAE assertions (Slingshot Printing, VideoLabs, AutoConnect Holdings, Magma Scientific), alongside competitor-versus-competitor defense work such as Monolithic Power Systems v. Reed Semiconductor. He also brings offensive declaratory-judgment/IPR capability on behalf of operating companies (HP as petitioner against Slingshot).

Firm context. He is a partner in the Houston office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, the firm attributed to nine of his twelve tracked appearances; the remaining entries are unattributed. Court and directory records place him at Morgan Lewis as far back as 2010 (firm patent-litigation brochure) and continuing to current filings. His firm bio states that prior to joining Morgan Lewis he was a litigation partner at a full-service international law firm; that predecessor firm is not named in the sources reviewed.

Notable cases, outcomes, and PTAB/IPR work. The Slingshot Printing/HP matters are his most extensive tracked engagement: parallel W.D. Tex. suits (Judge Albright, Waco/Austin) in which Slingshot asserted a large portfolio of printer patents against HP, resolved by stipulated dismissal with prejudice in March 2021 under a Settlement, Release and License Agreement, alongside parallel HP-filed IPRs (IPR2020-01084/-01085/-01086) challenging the asserted Slingshot patents. He appears regularly in PTAB proceedings: in Monolithic Power Systems v. Reed Semiconductor (D. Del.) he is lead counsel for Reed Semiconductor, and Reed's IPR2024-01158 produced a January 22, 2026 final written decision holding all challenged claims of MPS's U.S. Patent 9,041,377 unpatentable — a result Reed publicly announced as a significant win in a release stating Reed was represented by Morgan Lewis. He is lead counsel for AWS in Magma Scientific, LLC v. Amazon Web Services, Inc. (W.D. Tex., filed March 13, 2026) and lead counsel for HP in VideoLabs, Inc. v. HP Inc. Directory data also shows him as counsel for LG, Nikon, NEC, and bank/financial-services defendants in earlier NPE cases. He is a registered patent attorney (USPTO Reg. No. 53499) and is recognized in Chambers USA (Intellectual Property, Texas), IAM Patent 1000, and Best Lawyers.

Bar / education. J.D., magna cum laude, Tulane University Law School (1994); M.B.A., summa cum laude, Tulane University (1994); B.S., Computer Science, University of New Orleans (1988). Admitted in Texas (1994), and per directory listings also the District of Columbia and Colorado, before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Fifth Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sourcing note: the multi-state bar admissions and the unnamed predecessor firm come from directory profiles rather than primary court or bar records and should be verified before use.