Ron has almost thirty years of experience as an intellectual property litigator and trial attorney. He has represented clients in patent, trademark, false advertising, trade secret, and copyright cases across a broad spectrum of industries in district courts throughout the country and before the ITC. Ron currently represents patent-owners in litigations covering a variety of technology areas, and is widely respected as a pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman litigator for generic drug companies. 

Ron has been lead counsel or second-chair in over fifteen bench and jury trials and evidentiary hearings, and has argued before several U.S. Courts of Appeals, including various occasions in the Federal Circuit, and the New York Appellate Division. 

With almost thirty years of experience, Ron understands that what he ultimately provides to clients is peace of mind. Creative, strategic, and meticulous, Ron builds longstanding collaborative relationships.

Ron’s trial-tested courtroom skills underlay all parts of his practice, but he is also committed to working with clients to develop cost-effective strategies for results that make sound business sense — whether a client achieves those results inside or outside the courtroom. Ron believes in efficient case management to achieve the favorable outcome that best aligns with his client’s long-term strategies.

In addition to his intellectual property litigation practice, Ron counsels startups and companies of all sizes regarding patent procurement and clearance, and domestic and international trademark prosecution and licensing. He has represented a pro bono client in connection with a New York State post-conviction criminal proceeding and federal habeas corpus petition. Ron also writes and speaks frequently on topics in the field of intellectual property, and is an advisory board member of Bloomberg/BNA’s Life Sciences Law and Industry Report.

Patent and Trademark Infringement Litigation

Ron’s patent and trademark litigation experience spans communications, software, consumer products, biotechnology, computer technology and hardware, publishing, and energy. A small sampling includes:

• Patent inventorship trial and Federal Circuit oral argument in a case regarding email and mobile communication software patents
• Patent infringement case and evidentiary claim-construction hearing in a case involving transgenic mice
• Patent inventorship case relating to erythropoietin peptide mimetics
• Trademark infringement and false advertising jury trial involving Sobieski brand vodka
• Patent infringement contempt trial involving a chemical process for manufacturing lutein
• Represented leading consumer electronics company in patent infringement, trademark infringement, and false advertising litigation and jury trial involving printer technology
• Trademark infringement hearing and Fourth Circuit oral argument on behalf of a book publisher
• Multiple trademark infringement suits and domestic and international ex parte seizures involving counterfeit toner cartridges
• Trade secret suit and evidentiary hearing involving financial systems software
• Copyright infringement suit and evidentiary hearing involving financial forms
• ITC litigation and trial involving diltiazem hydrochloride
• Trademark infringement trial on behalf of New York City-based oil company 

Hatch-Waxman Litigation

Ron’s Hatch-Waxman litigation experience includes, for example, cases involving the following products:

• Aripiprazole tablets
• Canagliflozin tablets
• Guaifenesin extended-release tablets
• Macitentan tablets
• Abiraterone tablets
• Bivalirudin injectable composition
• Lyophilized bendamustine hydrochloride composition
• Esmolol hydrochloride for injection
• Calcium acetate drug product
• Clozapine orally disintegrating tablets
• Alosetron hydrochloride tablets
• Sulfate salt composition for cleaning the colon before a colonoscopy
• Sublingual formulation of zolpidem tartrate used to treat middle-of-the-night insomnia
• Famotidine/antacid pharmaceutical composition
• Polyethylene glycol composition for treating constipation
• Hyoscyamine orally disintegrating tablets
• Omeprazole capsules
• Terfenadine acid metabolite tablets

Honors & Awards

Life Sciences Star and IP Star, Managing Intellectual Property, 2013–present

New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2012–present

• Amicus Committee, New York Intellectual Property Law Association
• Advisory Board, Bloomberg BNA Life Sciences Law & Industry Report

• Prospect Partners, Prospect Park Alliance, 2006 to present
• Co-President and Trustee, Park Slope Civic Council, 2015 to 2019
• Trustee, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 2006 to 2010

• New York
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
• U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, and Federal Circuits
• U.S. Supreme Court