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Paul Ragusa
Partner, Practice Group Co-Chair, IP Transactions
Baker Botts
Paul Ragusa is a partner in the Intellectual Property section of Baker Botts’ New York office. His practice encompasses high technology and Hatch-Waxman patent litigation, inter-partes reviews, IP portfolio management 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 5G, 802.11, ARIB, ATSC, 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 2013-2022. He was recommended in The Legal 500 U.S. guide for 2011-2015 & 2017-2022, in the latest edition 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 2013-22 editions of the Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000, most recently for each of patent litigation, prosecution and transactions, and in IAM’s 2021-22 Strategy 300. 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.
Recent Articles by Paul Ragusa
On the heels of a busy term last year, the stage is set for the Supreme Court to review two more important issues regarding utility patents during the October term. The first issue involves one aspect of the Federal Circuit’s decision in Promega Corp. v. Life Technologies Corp., 773 F.3d 1338 (Fed. Cir. 2014) — i.e., whether a party who supplies a single, commodity component of a multi-component invention from the United States can be liable for infringement. The second issue arises from SCA Hygiene Prods. Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Prods., LLC, 807 F.3d 1311 (Fed. Cir. 2015) (en banc), to determine whether laches remains a viable defense to patent infringement with respect to pre-litigation damages in certain circumstances.
