Ryan Patrick O'Connor '07

Ryan O'Connor is a principal in the Southern California office of Fish & Richardson P.C. For nearly a decade he has focused on litigating patent infringement disputes in industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and computer hardware/software. Mr. O'Connor's experience covers all aspects of pre-litigation diligence and litigation, including case assessment, electronic document collection and production, managing teams handling fact and expert discovery, settlement strategy, and trial work. While Mr. O'Connor focuses his practice in the U.S. district courts and has appeared in them across the country, he also works on U.S. International Trade Commission investigations and post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. O'Connor investigated novel antibiotics as a biochemist at Replidyne, assisted pharma, biotech and medical device companies with product development as a regulatory consultant at CBR International, worked on manufacturing processes used to create x-ray film and various coatings as an engineer at Kodak and Valspar, respectively, and researched over-expression of recombinant DNA in E. coli at the University of Colorado.