Jake Cummings is a patent litigation associate at Russ August & Kabat. Jake attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on a full academic scholarship, where he earned both a Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Business Administration (MBA). During law school, Jake served on the Nevada Law Journal, completed judicial externships in the District of Nevada and in the Court of Federal Claims, and worked part-time as a Patent Agent.
Jake holds a degree in Engineering Physics: Electrodynamics from Point Loma Nazarene University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Prior to joining Russ August & Kabat, Jake was an attorney at Duane Morris LLP, where he focused his practice on patent litigation and patent prosecution.
Joshua Scheufler is an associate at Russ August & Kabat, focusing on intellectual property litigation. Previously, Joshua served as the law clerk to the Honorable Magistrate Judge Roy S. Payne.
Joshua has represented companies on both sides of the “v” across a variety of technological fields including speech-recognition, natural language processing, user-interface design, cryptographic security, secured payment methods, cardiac monitoring medical devices, fiber optics, cloud networking, and video compression. Joshua has experience in all stages of district court litigation as well as both inter parties review and ex party review.
Joshua graduated from the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as the Executive Submissions Editor of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal. He also received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, cum laude, from the University of Houston.
Ryan Lundquist is an associate at Russ August & Kabat, focusing his practice on high technology patent and intellectual property litigation.
Prior to joining Russ August & Kabat, Ryan worked as a government contracts, business disputes, and construction litigator, garnering experience practicing in state and federal courts across the United States from Washington, D.C. to Seattle, Washington. The subject matter of his work ranged from insurance coverage issues to commercial lease disputes and from construction issues to high dollar value, high technology government contract bids and protests.
Ryan earned his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law graduating cum laude. While at WashU, Ryan served as Symposium Editor for the Washington University Law Review. Prior to his legal career, Ryan was an instructor of Latin and Finance at St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he was also a coach of the football, basketball, baseball, and softball teams.
Mackenzie is a dedicated associate who specializes in IP litigation. Mackenzie earned her Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis, where her work was published in the Washington University Jurisprudence Law Review. During law school, she also participated in a legal clinic that provided post-conviction representation to wrongfully convicted death row inmates in Philadelphia. This early exposure to impactful legal work instilled in her a passion for justice and courtroom advocacy.
After law school, Mackenzie clerked for the Honorable Juan F. Alanis in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Before joining RAK, Mackenzie was a litigation associate at a boutique entertainment law firm in New York City. There, she represented a wide-variety of artists and entertainers in copyright and trademark matters, focusing on protecting their creative works and intellectual property rights.
Dale represents clients in high-stakes patent and trade secrets litigation. He has successfully litigated cases in every major patent venue across the US, including district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), both as plaintiff and defense counsel.
Dale has played significant roles in over 20 trials. In 2024, Dale, Marc Fenster, and Reza Mirzaie led the RAK team that won a $262 million jury verdict, and a resulting judgment of $380 million, against Western Digital on patents related to magnetic recording media in hard disk drives. Dale presented plaintiff MR Technologies’ infringement and validity expert, and the jury found all five asserted claims infringed and valid.
In 2022, Dale notched three trial wins in a row, starting with a complete defense victory for Irving Consumer Products against First Quality in an April 2022 Delaware jury trial on tissue products. That was followed by a plaintiff-side win for Philip Morris in a June 2022 Virginia jury trial against RJ Reynolds on vaping devices. Dale capped the year off with a complete defense victory for SMR against Magna in a December 2022 Michigan jury trial on side-view car mirrors.
In addition to his recent jury wins, Dale first-chaired a PTAB trial in a pivotal IPR of a patent on which the patentee had prevailed at the ITC. The PTAB found all claims invalid in January 2022. Earlier that month, Dale obtained another complete victory from the PTAB, in a post grant review of a patent asserted in district court. He has since first-chaired several other PTAB trials with a 100% win rate.
Dale has also successfully litigated trade secrets cases, including LG Chem’s landmark 2020 win at the ITC in its high profile trade secrets case against SK Innovation on electric car batteries.
Other notable achievements include 2018, 2016, and 2014 jury wins in the Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Delaware as well as major victories at the ITC in 2020, 2017, and 2015.
Prior to joining Russ August & Kabat, Dale was counsel at Latham & Watkins, where he litigated IP cases for over 15 years.
Other representative matters include:
- InterDigital v. ZTE, as counsel for InterDigital in asserting three patents relating to 3G and Wi-Fi technologies; jury found all asserted claims infringed and valid.
- Xperi v. Samsung, as counsel for Xperi entities in cases involving semiconductor technologies, which resulted in a favorable settlement that boosted Xperi’s stock price by over 40%.
- Counsel for AMD in its cross-license dispute with Intel, in which Intel agreed to pay US$1.25 billion to AMD to settle all disputes between the parties.
- Symantec v. Computer Associates, as counsel for Symantec in a patent case on anti-virus technology; obtained favorable settlement after winning key claim construction disputes.
Erica Kim is an associate at Russ August & Kabat and a member of its Media & Entertainment and Litigation & Trial groups. Erica serves as the primary associate on pre-litigation and litigation matters involving defamation, privacy rights, copyright and trademark infringement, profit participation claims, and breach of contract. She also advises clients on music-related transactions. Erica has represented a variety of clients in the media and entertainment industry, including recording artists, producers, actors, television personalities, influencers, production companies, live entertainment companies, and other high-profile individuals.
In 2023, Variety featured Erica in its Legal Impact Report.
Prior to joining Russ August & Kabat, Erica was on a trial defense team for a 10-day jury trial that resulted in a complete defense verdict recognized by Courtroom View Network as one of the “Top 10 Impressive Defense Verdicts of 2017.”
While a law student at UCLA School of Law, Erica was a judicial extern for the Honorable Lee Smalley Edmon, Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, Division 3. At the nation’s premier law school for media and entertainment law, Erica focused her studies on entertainment-related matters, taking courses in Music Industry Law, Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, and Entertainment Income Tax. In her second year, Erica was selected to be a Lawyering Skills Writing Advisor to first-year law students, and she also spearheaded an independent project proposing the creation of UCLA Law’s Pro-Bono Music Industry Clinic, which launched in 2018.
