Ryuk Park

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Ryuk Park — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. Park's practice centers on high-technology patent and trade-secret disputes, with a core in semiconductors and memory (DRAM and memory modules in particular), plus telecommunications/networking, consumer electronics, computer hardware and software. His firm biography notes prior work as a semiconductor circuit engineer specializing in system-on-chip (SoC) design and as in-house IP/litigation counsel for a video game company, and lists handled matters spanning 3D display technology, 3G telecommunications, medical-device trade secrets, and semiconductor portfolio licensing/cross-licensing. That technical profile is consistent with the tracked matters, which are dominated by memory-module and networking/electronics patents.

Side preference. He skews defense-side. Three of his four tracked appearances are for defendants (Samsung, Charge Fusion, SK hynix in the ITC), with the sole plaintiff-side entry being SK hynix's own IPR petition against Netlist — in practice petitioner-side invalidity work rather than NPE-style assertion. Additional representations verified in court filings reinforce that pattern: he appeared pro hac vice for Micron in Netlist v. Micron (E.D. Tex., 2023), for PayPal in Internet Payments Patents Ltd. v. PayPal (W.D. Tex., 2024), for Palo Alto Networks in the In re Taasera Licensing MDL, and for Toshiba in Anza Technology v. Toshiba (N.D. Cal.). He does not appear to prosecute for PAEs; his plaintiff-side posture is limited to defensive/declaratory-type work (e.g., representing Unified Patents in a challenge that ended with the asserted patent held unpatentable, per Unified's December 2020 announcement).

Firm context. His career has been at large IP litigation platforms in Palo Alto/Silicon Valley: Sidley Austin (roughly 2015–2019/2020, where he was part of the SK hynix team), White & Case (c. 2020), Winston & Strawn (Of Counsel, Silicon Valley/Redwood City, appearing in 2023–2024 filings), and King & Spalding (per the tracked Netlist v. Samsung matter). His State Bar of California profile currently lists a business address at Wavefront Legal PC in Cupertino; no current firm website or practice description was located in this review, so his present affiliation should be confirmed directly. Some directory listings (e.g., FindLaw) still show White & Case and appear stale.

Notable matters, PTAB, and credentials. Prominent tracked matters include the SK hynix/Netlist memory-module disputes — the ITC investigations (337-TA-1023 and 337-TA-1089, where he was respondent's counsel alongside Sidley's team), the parallel PTAB proceedings (e.g., IPR2017-00562), and Netlist v. Samsung, where he is listed as counsel for Samsung. His firm bio credits him with a "complete defense victory for a semiconductor company in an ITC action and PTAB proceedings involving DRAM memory modules," which aligns with the SK hynix work, though the specific outcome attribution is firm-provided. He appears regularly in PTAB proceedings as pro hac vice counsel (Toshiba Memory v. Anza, IPR2018-01597/-01598; SK hynix and Samsung v. Netlist IPRs), typically alongside a registered practitioner. He was admitted to the California Bar in December 2014; admitted to the Federal Circuit and the N.D., C.D., and E.D. Cal.; J.D., Cornell Law School (2014); B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering / EECS, Seoul National University. He is recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (Litigation–Patent) and as a Legal 500 "Key Lawyer."

Note: case-side and firm attributions above follow the tracked docket data and verified filings; the Wavefront Legal listing and the "complete defense victory" characterization come from a State Bar record and a firm-provided bio, respectively, and were not independently confirmed against primary outcome documents.