Ryan B. McBeth

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Professional Summary — Ryan B. McBeth

Focus and technology areas. McBeth is a patent and IP litigator at McKool Smith whose practice, per firm profiles and press coverage, centers on patent, trade secret, and trademark disputes across a technically diverse docket: oil and gas downhole tools and wellsite surface systems, computer hardware and software, wireless communications systems, and other commercial/consumer systems. His tracked litigation, however, is concentrated in software and networking — the co-browsing/synchronized-browsing patents asserted on behalf of Samesurf, Inc. against Intuit, Inc. His pre-law career as an IBM computer engineer (enterprise microprocessor and server development) and his status as a named inventor on U.S. Patent No. 7,881,826 plausibly explain the hardware/software lean, though that is inference rather than a stated specialty.

Side preference. The authoritative tracked data show four appearances, all on the plaintiff/patent-owner side (three as lead counsel, one as lead trial counsel), all arising from the Samesurf–Intuit dispute. That said, his broader practice is not plaintiff-only: his firm and prior-firm bios list defense-side engagements for Hewlett Packard (microprocessor architecture patents) and Baker Hughes (offshore drilling patents), plus trade-secret defense work. On the record available, he is best characterized as a patent-owner–side plaintiff litigator in tracked matters who has also done operating-company defense work not captured in this dataset.

Firm context. McBeth has been a Principal in McKool Smith's Houston office since January 2022. Before that he was at Bracewell LLP's Houston office (senior/special counsel from March 2017), and earlier an associate at Bracewell & Giuliani and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. He is not in-house.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. His most prominent tracked matter is Samesurf, Inc. v. Intuit, Inc. (S.D. Cal., filed March 29, 2022), asserting co-browsing patents against TurboTax/QuickBooks-related products; no public verdict or settlement was located, and Samesurf described the litigation as ongoing as of May 2026. The case generated parallel PTAB proceedings in which McBeth was active. On the favorable side, he was lead counsel in Intuit Inc. v. Samesurf, Inc., IPR2023-00341, where the Board upheld all 16 claims of U.S. Patent No. 9,483,448 in June 2024, and he argued the appeal that produced a Rule 36 affirmance (Fed. Cir. No. 24-2298, April 7, 2026). On the unfavorable side, the Board found all claims of U.S. Patent No. 9,185,145 obvious in IPR2023-00339 and IPR2023-00342; the Federal Circuit affirmed that ruling on May 21, 2026 (Nos. 24-2268/-2269), with McBeth on the brief rather than at argument. He also appears as backup counsel in IPR2023-01095 (Samsung Electronics v. Mojo Mobility), and Patexia's PTAB Intelligence Report ranked him among its Top 50 performing attorneys representing patent owners (2023–2025). He does appear regularly in PTAB proceedings, primarily for patent owners.

Bar and education. J.D., University of Houston Law Center (2011); B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. Admitted in Texas, before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Reg. No. 69,817), the Federal Circuit, and the N.D., E.D., S.D., and W.D. of Texas. (The UT degree year differs between his McKool Smith and Bracewell bios — 2003 versus 2001 — so it is omitted.)