Ronald M. McMillan

Specialty / focus. Ronald M. McMillan is a Cleveland-based commercial litigator whose firm practice centers on construction, tort, and general business litigation rather than dedicated patent prosecution or IP strategy. His two tracked patent appearances are narrow: both came as Ohio local counsel in a district-court patent dispute over LED lighting technology — specifically Feit Electric's asserted U.S. Patent No. 8,604,678 (a "wavelength conversion component with a diffusing layer" used in white-filament LED bulbs) and related patent claims against Savant/GE Lighting's Pearl Filament products. No other technology-area specialization is evidenced.

Side / firm context. Both tracked appearances (2 of 2) were for the defendant side, as local counsel at Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP. The matters are an operating-company-vs.-operating-company fight (Feit Electric vs. Savant Technologies d/b/a GE Lighting) — no NPE/PAE enforcement is involved. McMillan has been at Calfee since 2002 and previously practiced at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cleveland. He is not identified as a member of Calfee's IP practice group, and his role in these patent cases appears to be that of engaged Ohio counsel supporting out-of-state lead IP counsel.

Notable cases / PTAB. His tracked work centers on Feit Electric Co. v. Savant Technologies LLC d/b/a GE Lighting, No. 1:24-cv-473 (N.D. Ohio, Judge Bridget Meehan Brennan), filed March 2024, where he filed Savant's answer; the related tracked matter is the companion proceeding captioned with Savant as plaintiff (where he again appeared as local counsel). Feit sought injunctive relief and willfulness-enhanced damages over white-filament LED bulbs; Savant responded with invalidity contentions and PTAB petitions (IPR2024-01357, joined by IPR2025-00260), on which the Board instituted trial in 2025 — though McMillan is not shown as counsel in those IPRs, which were handled by Radulescu LLP and Carter Arnett. The district case was closed on the docket as of August 14, 2025; no verdict or settlement terms were verified in public sources. No pattern of regular PTAB/PGR practice appears.

Bar / education. Ohio bar (2000); B.A., Cleveland State University (1996); J.D., summa cum laude, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (2000); admitted in the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, Eastern District of Texas, Northern District of Indiana, Eastern District of Michigan, Sixth Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court.