Paul A. Ragusa

Practice Group Co-Chair - IP Transactions (Firmwide) Partner

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New York

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Paul Ragusa is a partner in the Intellectual Property section of the firm's New York office. His practice encompasses patent litigation, inter-partes reviews, IP transactions and licensing, including of standard-essential patents (SEPs).

His diverse technical experience spans audiovisual compression and transmission, semiconductor device fabrication, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, software applications, techniques for delivering pharmaceutical products and medical devices. He was part of the team that drafted the patent licensing agreements directed to the MPEG-2 digital video compression standard, and continues to focus on Standard Development Organizations (SDOs), related Open Source Software (“OSS”) consortia, and licensing of SEPs, including 3G/4G/5G, 802.11, ARIB, ATSC/ATSC3, AV1, AVC, Blu-ray, CRISPR, DASH, DisplayPort, IETF, HEVC, LTE, MVC, UHDTV, VVC and WiFi-6.

Mr. Ragusa was named a New York Metro Super Lawyer and listed in IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property for 2013-2023. He was recommended in The Legal 500 U.S. guide for 2011-2015 & 2017-2022 for both licensing and prosecution (including post-grant proceedings), which wrote that he is “easy to work with” and has a “no nonsense approach.” He was also recommended in the 2013-2023 editions of the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000, most recently for each of patent litigation, prosecution and transactions, and in IAM’s Global Leaders 2024. According to IAM, Paul is a “protean professional” and his “versatility manifests itself in his university work…acting for pharmaceutical companies and building on his expert knowledge of SEPs and antitrust law.”

He is the programs subcommittee Chair of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Standards and Open Source Committee, Vice Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners’ (IPO) Standards Setting Committee, and serves on the Advisory Board at IP Litigator, using those positions to address the practical implications of important changes to the law.

Related Experience

  • Columbia University - development, management, licensing and litigation of a worldwide patent portfolio directed to a wide range of technologies, including audiovisual compression, medical devices, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, virtual reality, batteries, semiconductor device fabrication, and materials science, counseling concerning "SEPs", patent pools, and related licensing and litigation
  • Enghouse Systems & Vidyo, Inc. - patent litigation, conducting due diligence investigations, and counseling regarding Standard Development Organizations (SDOs), patent pools and OSS issues
  • Peak Pharma Commercial Partners LLC and Resilia Pharmaceuticals, Inc, - diligence and agreements regarding acquisition of branded pharmaceutical products, related patent prosecution and counseling
  • Pharmacosmos A/S - IPRs, litigation and related counseling for patents related to parenteral iron therapy
  • Guangdong Mic-Power New Energy Co., Ltd., PEAG, LLC, D/B/A JLab Audio, Audio Partnership PLC d/b/a Cambridge Audio, and GN Audio A/S d/b/a Jabra - patent litigation, IPRs and related counseling for patents related to button cell batteries
  • Medical Device Company, USA – conducting due diligence investigations, counseling, and patent prosecution for worldwide portfolio relating to cardiac, monitors and diagnostic devices
  • Investor, USA - Hatch-Waxman Litigation and related counseling for patents directed to techniques for treating cancer
  • Ethypharm, S.A. - Hatch-Waxman litigation, licensing and counseling for patents related to methods of delivering pharmaceutical products
  • Pharmaceutical Company, Europe - IPRs and related counseling for patents directed to methods of treating nutrient deficiency conditions
  • The AES Corporation - Licensing and counseling regarding patents and know-how related to energy storage management
  • ECI Technologies, Inc. - development and management of a worldwide patent portfolio directed to semiconductor processing equipment and techniques, and related opinions, dispute resolution and licensing
  • Plasma Physics, Inc. - patent licensing and litigation, including trial of a patent infringement action resulting in a significant damages award for patents directed to plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
  • The University of Pennsylvania - development, management and licensing of a worldwide patent portfolio directed to life sciences technologies, including medical devices, diagnostic methods, pharmaceutical compositions and bioinformatics, and related counseling and opinions
  • The University of Pittsburgh - development of a worldwide patent portfolio directed to life sciences technologies, counseling regarding inventorship and patent ownership disputes and Bayh-Dole compliance
  • Allied Bolt, Inc. - complete range of intellectual property representation, including dispute resolution, conducting due diligence investigations, and development of a patent portfolio directed to fasteners

Awards & Community

Recognized as a New York Metro Super Lawyer (Thomson Reuters), 2013-2023

Recognized in IP Stars by Managing Intellectual Property, 2013-2023

Recommended by The Legal 500 U.S., 2011-2015 & 2017-2022

Recommended in the Intellectual Asset Management (“IAM”) Magazine in Patent 1000 for patent litigation transactions, and prosecution 2013-23, in the IAM Strategy 300, 2020-23, and in the IAM Global Leaders, 2024

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