Riley Zoch

Riley Zoch is an associate in the Patent Litigation practice at Perkins Coie, focusing on high-stakes intellectual property disputes. His practice areas appear to encompass technologies such as display technology and consumer electronics, as indicated by his involvement in a significant case concerning these fields. With an academic background in education, mathematics, and robotics, Zoch brings a technical foundation to his legal work. His litigation experience to date primarily involves defending clients, having appeared exclusively on the defendant side in tracked cases.

At Perkins Coie, Riley Zoch was a member of the trial team that secured a historic defense verdict for AUO Corporation and Hisense Visual in Light Guide Innovations, LLC v. Hisense Company Ltd., et al. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The jury in this case found that the defendants did not infringe two asserted patents and also invalidated one of the asserted patents. This outcome was notable as the first defense verdict for a Taiwanese company and the first defense win for a Chinese mainland company in a patent infringement case in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas in over two decades. Before joining Perkins Coie, Zoch served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, where he gained exposure to various judicial proceedings including Markman hearings, pretrial conferences, and trials.

While the available information does not indicate regular appearances in PTAB or IPR proceedings, Zoch's professional background includes a Juris Doctor (J.D.), magna cum laude, from Baylor Law School in 2024, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Education, summa cum laude, from Concordia University Texas in 2016. He is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.