Ryan J. McBeth

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Ryan J. McBeth — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. McBeth is a Houston-based patent litigator whose practice centers on patent, trade secret, and trademark disputes with a technology-heavy docket. McKool Smith's firm profile describes work on oil and gas downhole tools and wellsite surface systems, computer hardware and software, wireless communications systems, and other complex commercial and consumer systems. That technical range is consistent with his background: he worked as a computer engineer at IBM overseeing enterprise microprocessor and server development before law school and is himself a named inventor (U.S. Patent No. 7,881,826). He also handles Federal Circuit appeals and PTAB proceedings. His reported matters include oilfield services, wellhead isolation and offshore drilling technologies, microprocessor architecture, and wireless charging.

Side preference. The authoritative tracked record here contains a single appearance, and it is plaintiff-side (1 plaintiff / 0 defendant), as lead counsel. Broader public sources show a genuinely mixed practice rather than a single-sided one: the firm profile lists him defending Hewlett Packard in an EDTX microprocessor case and defending Baker Hughes in a Delaware offshore-drilling case, alongside plaintiff-side representations of Baker Hughes, Chemoil, and Oil States Energy Services. In recent years, however, a meaningful share of his publicized work has been on the patent-owner/enforcement side — including NPE-style assertions and defending patent owners at the PTAB — so characterizing him strictly as either an NPE prosecutor or an operating-company defender would overstate the record.

Firm context and notable matters. McBeth is a Principal in McKool Smith's Houston office, which he joined in 2022 from Bracewell's Houston office, where he had been special counsel since March 2017. Verified highlights:

• Mojo Mobility Inc. v. Samsung Electronics (E.D. Tex., No. 2:22-cv-00398): McBeth was a member of the McKool Smith trial team that obtained a $192 million jury verdict on September 13, 2024, with the jury finding Samsung willfully infringed five Mojo wireless-charging patents. He is also listed as back-up counsel for Mojo Mobility in the related Samsung IPRs (e.g., IPR2023-01095).
• Samesurf, Inc. v. Intuit Inc. (S.D. Cal., No. 3:22-cv-412): lead counsel for patent owner Samesurf in consolidated IPRs. The PTAB's June 2024 final written decision upheld all 16 claims of Samesurf's '448 co-browsing patent, and the Federal Circuit affirmed on April 7, 2026 (No. 24-2298, Rule 36). The outcome was mixed overall: the PTAB invalidated the '145 and '591 patents, a result the Federal Circuit affirmed on May 21, 2026 (Nos. 24-2268/2269), and the district court later granted Intuit summary judgment of non-infringement on the '448 patent (April 2026).
• Tracked matter, Moskowitz Family LLC v. NuVasive, Inc./NuVasive, LLC (D. Del., No. 1:25-cv-00711): a patent-owner suit asserting a large spinal-fusion implant portfolio against NuVasive. Caveat: the public docket for this case lists Farnan LLP and Avantech Law as plaintiff's counsel of record, and I could not independently verify McBeth's appearance on the public docket; the tracked-appearance data is authoritative on this point, and the case is in active claim-construction and discovery proceedings rather than resolved.

PTAB/IPR experience. He appears regularly in IPR proceedings, generally on the patent-owner side, and was ranked among the Top 50 Performing Attorneys Representing Patent Owners in Patexia's PTAB Intelligence Report (2023–2025).

Bar/education. B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2003); J.D., University of Houston Law Center (2011). Admitted in Texas, before the USPTO (Reg. No. 69,817), the N.D./E.D./S.D./W.D. of Texas, and the Federal Circuit.