Ryan Iwahashi

Ryan Iwahashi is a patent litigation partner at Gish PLLC, specializing in complex intellectual property disputes, including patents, patent licenses, standards agreements, and trade secrets. His practice is deeply rooted in high-tech industries, leveraging his background in computer science and software development to handle cutting-edge technologies such as computer software, networking, consumer devices, cellular and Wi-Fi standards, data storage, streaming media, and artificial intelligence.

Iwahashi primarily represents defendants, particularly operating companies in patent infringement actions. While the provided case list initially indicated one plaintiff-side appearance, public dockets for Skysong Innovations, LLC v. Fortinet, Inc. show his representation for the defendant, Fortinet, Inc. Across all tracked and publicly sourced cases, his appearances are overwhelmingly on the defense side, including defending major technology companies like Cisco, Rubrik, Dell, AT&T, Avi Networks, Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron, and Compal Electronics.

Before joining Gish PLLC as a partner, Iwahashi spent nearly a decade in the IP Litigation Group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He has significant experience in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), where he has successfully filed inter partes review (IPR) petitions for clients such as Dell and Avi Networks. He is also listed as counsel for Fortinet, Inc. in an IPR petition against Netskope, Inc.

Notable cases include his successful representation of Cisco, securing dismissals of patents with prejudice, and his defense of Rubrik, where he defeated a motion for a preliminary injunction. He also represented Peloton against DISH Networks in an evidentiary hearing before the International Trade Commission and secured the dismissal of a patent infringement lawsuit for Lipotype, invalidating all asserted claims under 35 U.S.C. § 101. His tracked cases further include representing Fortinet in Netskope, Inc. v. Fortinet, Inc. and DISH Technologies L.L.C. et al. v. A Parent Media Co. Inc. et al..

Iwahashi earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2012, and holds both an M.S. (2006) and B.S. (2004) in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. He is admitted to the State Bar of California, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, among other federal district courts. He also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Kathleen O'Malley at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 2014 to 2015.