Ryan T. McBeth

Ryan T. McBeth — Patent Litigation Profile

Specialty / focus. McBeth is a Principal in McKool Smith's Houston office, where he focuses on patent, trade-secret, and trademark litigation, with deep experience in oil-and-gas downhole tools and wellsite surface systems, computer hardware and software, and wireless communications (per his McKool Smith bio and Bracewell predecessor profile). He joined McKool Smith in January 2022 from Bracewell LLP, where he was senior/special counsel; earlier he was an associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Bracewell & Giuliani (Texas Lawbook, Jan. 2022). Before law school he was a computer engineer at IBM overseeing enterprise microprocessor and server projects, and he holds U.S. Patent No. 7,881,826 (firm bio; Texas Lawbook).

Side preference / notable cases. His tracked docket reflects one plaintiff-side matter, and his recent high-profile work has been on behalf of patent owners. He was on the McKool Smith trial team that won a $192 million willful-infringement verdict for Mojo Mobility against Samsung over wireless-charging patents in E.D. Tex. (2:22-cv-00398, Sept. 13, 2024; Reuters; firm press release), and he represents Samesurf in its co-browsing patent campaign against Intuit, including the underlying IPRs and Federal Circuit appeals. Historically he has worked both sides — plaintiff matters for Baker Hughes, Chemoil, Oil States, and Repros Therapeutics, and defense work for Hewlett Packard and Baker Hughes (firm bio) — but his current practice skews strongly toward enforcing patents for owners/NPEs.

PTAB / IPR experience. McBeth appears regularly before the PTAB, and has been ranked among Patexia's Top 50 Performing Attorneys Representing Patent Owners (2023–2025). He was named lead counsel for patent owner Samesurf in IPR2023-00339 (Intuit v. Samesurf) and served as backup counsel for patent owner Mojo Mobility in IPR2023-01095 (Samsung v. Mojo Mobility), in which Mojo defeated institution on 16 of 18 Samsung IPR petitions (IAM, Sept. 2024). In 2026 he argued/appeared for Samesurf in two Federal Circuit appeals arising from those IPRs: Samesurf v. Intuit (Nos. 24-2268/69), where the court affirmed the PTAB's obviousness ruling on the '145 patent (May 21, 2026), and Intuit v. Samesurf (No. 24-2298), affirmed by Rule 36 judgment (April 7, 2026).

Bar / education. Texas bar; registered patent attorney (Reg. No. 69,817); admitted to the four Texas federal district courts and the Federal Circuit. B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Texas at Austin; J.D., University of Houston Law Center (2011).