Ralph Dengler

Partner

Venable LLP

Ralph Dengler is a Partner with Venable‘s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. Ralph is a first-chair trial attorney with significant experience counseling clients and litigating patent, trademark, and trade secret matters in federal courts across the country. Ralph handles matters across diverse technologies, including streaming and social media, software and electronics, 3D printing, video surveillance and monitoring, telecommunications, outdoor sports industries, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, chemical compounds, computers, food containers and packaging, and construction and dredging.

Ralph began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx, and his IP law practice at Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto. He also served for 22 years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring in 2010 as a reserve colonel.

Recent Articles by Ralph Dengler

Northern District of California revises local patent rules, requires damages disclosures early and often

Damages discovery in patent cases is usually contentious, expensive, and non-uniform in application by the courts. The patent owner, on one hand, wants to discover all possible revenue streams for settlement and resource allocation. The accused infringer, on the other hand, wants to minimize disclosure, because of the sensitivity of financial information and the belief that the suit is meritless. And the courts are caught in the middle. Compounding these issues, fulsome damages contentions typically are not defined until expert reports are presented, meaning the parties (and the court through a Daubert motion) will not know whether there is sufficient basis for the damages sought until late in a case.

February 15, 2017

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