Javier J. Ramos*
Partner | Corporate
javier.ramos@pierferd.com
+1.380.262.1874 office
Columbus | Washington, D.C.
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About
Javier J. Ramos focuses on intellectual property, technology, and data privacy. Javier’s current practice covers a wide range of complex matters, including technology and digital infrastructure; licensing; M&A diligence and support; supporting financing transactions (including alternative investments, leveraged, project, energy and infrastructure, real estate, and transportation, space and telecom); and related corporate counseling.
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Javier has supported and driven thousands of financings and M&A transactions, examined and prosecuted hundreds of patent and trademark applications, and litigated cases in state courts, Federal District courts, U.S. Courts of Appeal (including the Federal Circuit), and arbitral tribunals resulting in upheld awards and judgments for clients in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Javier has drafted and negotiated artificial intelligence, intellectual property, information technology and data privacy-related agreements, including AI development and deployment agreements, assignments, co-existence agreements, joint development agreements, licenses, purchase agreements (assets, membership interests, stock), security agreements, service level agreements, settlement agreements, SaaS agreements, terms of service, and transition services agreements.
Prior to joining Pierson Ferdinand, Javier was at Milbank LLP for fifteen years, working in its Washington, D.C. and Munich, Germany offices. Before that, he was a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), examining in the image processing and image reproduction arts. Javier holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University (cum laude) and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center (cum laude).
Practices
Information Security
Mergers and Acquisitions
Project Finance
Privacy and Data Protection
Technology
Copyrights
IP Litigation and Enforcement
IP Transactions and Licensing
Patents
Trademarks
Trade Secrets
Admissions
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
*Not licensed in Ohio
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude
The Ohio State University, B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, cum laude
Experience
Milbank LLP
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Representative Matters
Representing Bayer CropScience AG against Dow AgroSciences in a series of litigations and an ICC arbitration, securing an arbitral award of over $450 million which was upheld on appeal.
Represented Advent International in the $3.25 billion carve-out acquisition of General Electric’s Distributed Power business (Jenbacher and Waukesha), which is now INNIO.
Representing Boards and More GmbH in a series of defendant-side litigations relating to alleged breach of contract and trademark infringement claims through appeals.
Representing Ohio-based medical device patent holding company against Medtronic, with successful defense of multiple medical device patents in USPTO inter partes review.
Represented Gevo, Inc. in a series of project and licensing transactions relating to the development and implementation of technology enabling the generation of sustainable aviation fuel products.
Represented iSYS Medizintechnik GmbH dba Interventional Systems, a medical robotics company, in a series of IP licensing transactions.