Robert Rando is a partner in the Intellectual Property, Litigation and Entertainment & Sports practice groups at Greenspoon Marder LLP. He concentrates his practice in the areas of intellectual property and complex commercial litigation. With more than three decades of experience, he has handled a wide range of technology matters, including computer hardware and software, biotechnology products, medical devices, silicon chip manufacturing, chemical compounds, food additives, pharmaceuticals, communications, alternative energy products, consumer electronics, security, internet, and e-commerce.

Mr. Rando has substantial experience in federal civil litigation. He has been lead counsel in numerous cases in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), and several other United States District Courts across the country. He also has a history of handling litigation matters that include complex commercial litigation, antitrust, class actions, civil rights, employment disputes, employment discrimination, ERISA cases, and product liability.

Mr. Rando has extensive appellate court experience, including having served as counsel of record or co-counsel on numerous Amicus brief filings before the United States Supreme Court and Federal Circuit on various intellectual property, constitutional and administrative law issues from 2006 to the present. A skilled trial lawyer and legal scholar, he has filed Amicus briefs in most of the high-profile patent and other intellectual property cases before the United States Supreme Court since, and including in, eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., 547 U.S. 388 (2006). Most recently, Mr. Rando filed an Amicus brief, on behalf of amici curiae United States Senator Thom Tillis, Honorable Paul R. Michel, and Honorable David J. Kappos in American Axle & Manuf., Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, et al., No. 20-891, U.S. Sup. Ct. (March 1, 2021).

Throughout his career, Mr. Rando has also been involved in different areas of alternative dispute resolution. He has engaged in mediation on behalf of his clients and has served as a Mediator in several private mediations. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Court-Appointed Masters and has served by judicial appointment as a Special Master in numerous cases involving complex patent law issues. Additionally, Mr. Rando serves as a Neutral in patent and non-patent cases.

For several years, Mr. Rando has worked closely with the United States Patent and Trademark Office leaders and actively engages in federal judiciary matters. Along with other Federal Bar Association (FBA) patent practitioners, he developed and conducted a series of lectures in 2012 on the America Invents Act (AIA), and along with other New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) patent practitioners, he provided a lecture on Alice/Mayo/Section 101 patent eligibility issues in 2018, for the SDNY and EDNY Patent Pilot Program Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Law Clerks. He also represented the NYIPLA and FBA at the Tillis/Coons Section 101 Patent Law Reform Roundtable discussions and submitted written testimony included in the record at the June 11, 2019, hearing.

What’s more, Mr. Rando is a member of the EDNY Litigation Advisory Committee since 2005 and has worked alongside members of the judiciary, academia, and other lawyers reviewing and providing input and commentary on proposed rules changes to the Federal Rules and the EDNY local rules. He also served as a member of the joint EDNY/SDNY Rules Sub-Committee on Local Patent Rules.

Mr. Rando is also a published author and frequent lecturer at law schools, bar associations, CLE programs, and trade groups on constitutional law, administrative law, patent law, and other IP law issues. Throughout his teaching, Mr. Rando conducted a series of lectures to update the SDNY, EDNY Patent Pilot Program Judges, Magistrates, and Law Clerks on the America Invents Act.

Prior to joining Greenspoon Marder, Mr. Rando founded and led his own firm for nearly 25 years. He began his legal career as an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and later moved to patent firms of Kenyon & Kenyon and Hopgood, Calimafde, Kalil & Judlowe. Before attending law school, he served as a Systems Analysis Engineer at Sperry Corporation, now a part of Lockheed Martin. In this role, Mr. Rando helped design, develop, implement, and analyze computer software that could use advanced mathematics as part of nuclear submarine navigation and weapons systems under a government required security clearance.

Mr. Rando received his Juris Doctor, with academic honors, from St. John’s University School of Law. He was the Executive Publications Editor of the St. John’s Law Review and the recipient of an Academic Scholarship, Civil Trial Institute Honors, and the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Constitutional Law. He received his Bachelor of Science, with academic honors, in mathematics and computer science, from Hofstra University.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• J.D., St. John’s University School of Law, with honors, 1989
• B.S., Hofstra University, with honors, 1983

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