Rikesh P. Patel

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Specialty / focus. Rikesh P. Patel is an IP litigator and registered patent attorney whose practice spans patent litigation, prosecution, and counseling. Firm biographies describe work in medical devices (implantable devices, vascular access, surgical navigation and robotic surgery, electromechanical surgical instruments), aerospace and jet engines, 3D metal printing, semiconductors and server processors, SaaS/enterprise software, blockchain and FinTech, and consumer electronics. His licensing-side background includes a patent pool of 200+ U.S. and foreign patents essential to the IEEE 802.11n standard and diligence on stored-value cards, OLED displays, and MEMS gyroscopes. There is no evident pharma, biologics, or Hatch-Waxman practice; his technical background is biomedical engineering, and his life-sciences work is device-oriented. The portfolio at issue in his tracked case is enterprise data infrastructure — fault-tolerant storage, zero-latency enterprise messaging, archiving, and system-monitoring patents derived from Hewlett-Packard R&D.

Side preference. The structured data show a single tracked appearance, and it is plaintiff-side: Valtrus Innovations Ltd. v. SAP America (E.D. Tex.), where he is of record for Valtrus/Key Patent Innovations, monetization entities asserting an HP-derived patent portfolio. That is a very small sample, and the rest of his record is mixed. His firm bio lists defense work for the medical-device maker AngioDynamics against C.R. Bard/BD, alongside the Valtrus plaintiff work, so he is best characterized as a both-sides litigator whose current docket is weighted toward representing patent owners against large operating companies. Public docket aggregators also show an appearance for plaintiffs Key Patent Innovations and Malikie Innovations in a 2025 E.D. Tex. action against SAP (Malikie Innovations Ltd. v. SAP America, No. 2:25-cv-00946), which is not reflected in the tracked-appearance list and should be treated as unconfirmed in the authoritative dataset.

Firm context. He is an associate in the New York office of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg, a trial-focused IP litigation boutique. Before RJLF he was an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Wiggin and Dana in New York, and he has also worked as in-house patent counsel at a Fortune 500 global medical technology company (managing an IP portfolio for its largest division) and at AmLaw 100 firms; his firm bio also references startup-side experience building standard-essential patent licensing pools.

Notable matters, PTAB, and credentials. In Valtrus v. SAP (No. 2:24-cv-00021-JRG, N.D. Tex. E.D. Tex., Judge Gilstrap), filed January 2024, the Federal Circuit denied SAP's mandamus petition seeking intra-district transfer to Sherman, leaving the case in Marshall (In re SAP America, Inc., No. 2025-118, Fed. Cir. Apr. 10, 2025). RJLF is patent-owner counsel in the related IPRs SAP filed against the asserted patents (IPR2025-00416, -00418, -00420), where Valtrus argued discretionary denial under Fintiv; Patel's name does not appear on the patent owner's power of attorney in those proceedings, so his personal IPR involvement there is not established, though his firm bio states he manages IPRs and PGRs. Firm-bio results he is credited with include a Rule 50(a) judgment of noninfringement, invalidity, patent ineligibility, and no willful infringement for AngioDynamics in Bard's vascular access port suit (Bard sought upwards of $200 million), and the 2024 global settlement ending the long-running C.R. Bard v. AngioDynamics (D. Utah) litigation; those outcomes come from the firm's own descriptions and were not independently verified in the sources reviewed. He also did third-party fact discovery in the Epic Games v. Apple and Epic Games v. Google antitrust matters (non-patent). Bar admissions: District of Columbia, New Jersey, and the USPTO (registered patent attorney), with E.D. Tex. and D.N.J. admissions listed; J.D., University of New Hampshire (Franklin Pierce) School of Law, 2009, and B.S., cum laude, biomedical engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006. Note on disambiguation: several attorneys named Rikesh Patel appear in public records (including a California-licensed Rikesh Ramu Patel and an unrelated immigration matter); the patent litigator here is Rikesh P. Patel of RJLF.