Robert C. Harris

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Robert C. Harris — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. The only tracked matter for Mr. Harris is an IBM patent case in which he appears as trial counsel for Desmarais LLP; the public docket for that Delaware action (International Business Machines Corp. v. Groupon, Inc., No. 16-122-LPS-CJB (D. Del.)) involved software and internet/e-commerce patents — filings in the case show the team litigating claim-construction and invalidity issues over IBM's online advertising and web-functionality patents, including third-party Amazon source-code discovery. Beyond that single matter I could not find searchable practice descriptions or a firm bio confirming broader technology coverage, so any characterization of him as, e.g., a Wi-Fi, pharma, or mechanical-device litigator is not supported by the sources I located.

Side preference. His tracked record is 1 plaintiff-side appearance and 0 defendant-side appearances — he is listed among counsel moving pro hac vice for IBM as plaintiff, alongside John M. Desmarais and Karim Oussayef. On this sample he has appeared for patent holders, not for accused infringers, but one case is too thin a basis to call it a firm-side preference; Desmarais as a firm publicly describes representing both patent owners and defendants.

Firm context. He is/was an attorney at Desmarais LLP (230 Park Avenue, New York), a firm focused on technology-driven patent infringement litigation, ITC Section 337 investigations, and PTAB work. Court filings in 2017 list him on Desmarais teams in the Delaware matter and in a Northern District of California case; I found no verified prior-firm history, title (partner vs. associate), or in-house role, and no current-firm bio page could be retrieved.

Notable cases, PTAB, bar/education. The IBM–Groupon case is the one clearly attributable matter; it proceeded through fact discovery and expert reports with Harris on IBM's trial team, and a plaintiff's jury verdict in IBM's favor was widely reported in 2018, though I could not verify the verdict or any subsequent Federal Circuit outcome in this run and would confirm the details before quoting them. I found no evidence of IPR/PGR appearances at the PTAB. Bar admission and education are not reliably sourced for this attorney and are omitted.

Disambiguation caution. Several attorneys share this name — notably Robert C. Harris, a New York entertainment/sports and IP attorney at Lazarus & Harris (admitted 1979, NYU Law), and Robert C Harris, a Florida attorney at Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li. Neither is connected to Desmarais or to patent trial practice, and neither should be conflated with the subject of this profile.