Overview
Ryan McBeth is a Principal based in McKool Smith's Houston office and represents clients in complex commercial disputes with a focus towards technology related litigation. Ryan has extensive experience representing clients in patent, trade secret, and trademark matters. In particular, he has worked on cases involving oil and gas downhole tools, wellsite surface systems, computer hardware and software, wireless communications systems, and other complex commercial and consumer systems. Ryan’s work also encompasses appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Inter Partes Review of patents before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Ryan has represented numerous Fortune 500 clients including oilfield services providers and computer manufacturers and he has experience advocating for clients in front of both Texas and Federal Courts.
Before pursuing a career in law, Ryan worked as a computer engineer at IBM, overseeing enterprise class microprocessor and server development projects. Ryan earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and is an inventor on U.S. Patent No. 7,881,826.
Ryan is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
J.D., University of Houston Law Center, 2011
- Dean's Scholarship Recipient 2008-2011
B.S., Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2003
- State of Texas
- The U. S. Patent & Tradmark Office
- The U. S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Houston Bar Association