Ryan C. Johnson

Ryan C. Johnson is a founding partner at Cherry Johnson Siegmund James PLLC, based in Waco, Texas, where he focuses on intellectual property disputes, commercial litigation, and personal injury law. His practice encompasses a range of business and commercial legal matters, including intellectual property disputes and trade-secret litigation. His undergraduate background includes a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, which provides a technical foundation for his legal practice.

In his patent litigation practice, Mr. Johnson has appeared on the plaintiff side in at least one tracked case, Speednic LLC v. Nvidia Corp et al. (W.D. Tex.), which involves allegations concerning patents related to AI data center gear and intrusion detection processing. While his firm highlights its experience in complex patent litigation and reports securing over $2 billion in verdicts and settlements across its litigation portfolio, specific notable patent litigation outcomes directly attributable to Mr. Johnson are not detailed in publicly available professional summaries.

There is no reliably sourced information indicating Mr. Johnson regularly appears in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.

Mr. Johnson is admitted to practice in Texas (2005) and Oklahoma (2008), as well as before all four Texas Federal Court Districts, the U.S. District Court for the Western and Eastern Districts of Oklahoma, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. He earned his Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 2005, graduating magna cum laude and second in his class.