Education

  • Vanderbilt University, (B.E.M.E., 1979)
  • University of Miami, (J.D., 1982)
    Cum Laude
    Omicron Delta Kappa
    Executive Editor, Lawyer of the Americas Journal of International Law (1981- 1982)

Bar Admissions

  • Minnesota, 1982
  • Florida, 1983
  • New York, 1986
  • New Jersey, 1986
  • District of Columbia, 2007
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Member

  • New York Intellectual Property Law Association
  • Minnesota State Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • American Intellectual Property Law Association
  • The Florida Bar

Matthew K. Ryan

Partner
Tel: (212) 588-0800 | Fax: (212) 588-0500

Matthew K. Ryan is one of the founding partners of Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP.  He has extensive experience in litigation, prosecution, transactional matters, and client counseling with respect to intellectual property.

Mr. Ryan represents multinational and emerging companies in a wide range of high- and low-technology areas.  He has represented these clients in numerous state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. In addition, Mr. Ryan supervises an aggressive prosecution practice for these clients in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and assists in representing these clients before various international patent authorities.  He also regularly counsels these clients in complex business matters and transactions, including drafting and negotiating research and development, sales, and license agreements.

Prior to the founding of Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP, Mr. Ryan was a partner in the law firm of Curtis, Morris & Safford P.C.

Matthew Ryan has been listed in the New York Super Lawyers 2007 Metro Edition.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Program:  Trilateral Perspective on Patent Protection, Enforcement & Competition Law, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, September 28, 2006