Mike Rueckheim
Partner
Chair, Silicon Valley Litigation Practice
Michael (Mike) is a patent litigator with a high-level background in technology who focuses his practice on patent litigation, post-grant proceedings before the PTAB, ITC actions, and related intellectual property and trade secret matters. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mike obtained nearly ten years of experience focusing on trouble-shooting issues with high-tech instrumentation such as plasma etchers (as a semiconductor process technician) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometers (as an analytical research chemist).
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Second chaired Northern District of Illinois eight-day jury trial in competitor case involving two patents relating to garage door technology. Obtained complete jury trial verdict/win on all issues, including an award of treble damages, attorneys’ fees costs and permanent injunction. Court (in a post-trial opinion) stated: “This case was not close. [Defendant] lost on every issue at trial after less than two hours of jury deliberation.” Also obtained related wins from IPR stage and from ITC hearings (on different patents).
- Defended a large multinational information technology company in a multi-patent litigation pending in the Northern District of Texas, with accusations relating to high-speed printing technologies.
- Defended a large multinational information technology company in an Eastern District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to manufacturing software techniques.
- Represented four major multinational technology defendants jointly in IPR and appeal; defended one client in an underlying Delaware patent litigation. Case involved accusations relating to memory techniques, reducing probe traffic and cache coherency concepts.
- Defended a major multinational technology company in an Eastern District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to translating virtual addresses in a system having multiple instruction pipelines.
- Represented a global leader in cloud and digital technology in an IPR and appeal, as well as Delaware patent litigation. Case involved accusations relating to networking techniques for RAID memory systems.
- Defended a leading electronics, appliances and mobile devices company in a Western District of Texas patent litigation, with accusations relating to standard essential patent issues and Bluetooth frequency hopping selection of communications channels.
- Defended a major multinational technology company in a multi-patent litigation pending in the Eastern District of Texas, with accusations relating to processor architecture concepts, including SIMD floating point coprocessor techniques and memory applications.
Michael Rueckheim is highly knowledgeable and experienced in all facets of patents and patent litigation, which he uses to achieve great results. He is personable, proactive, responsive and open to hearing thoughts on the proposed approach and strategy.
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