Ryan M. Nishimoto

Ryan Nishimoto is an experienced litigator with significant success representing clients in high-stakes intellectual property and technology disputes. He regularly represents leading companies in technology-intensive complex litigation involving the enforcement and defense of patent, trade secret, copyright, and other intellectual property rights.

With a background in mathematics, Ryan's technical knowledge and litigation experience spans multiple high-tech industries, including generative AI, consumer electronics, wireless and cellular networking, video games, medical devices, and e-commerce. He has litigated in district courts across the U.S. in cases involving computer software and hardware technologies, including the design and operation of mobile phones and tablets, large language models, human-computer interaction technology, graphics and video processors, memories, and displays.

Ryan has developed particular depth in the fast-evolving area of generative AI litigation. He represents leading AI companies in disputes arising from the development and deployment of large language models and other AI systems, with experience across the full range of issues that define this emerging field — including fair use and transformative use defenses, training data and web-scraping claims, DMCA liability, and questions of authorship and copyrightability in AI-generated works. He regularly counsels clients on the legal risks and strategic considerations presented by evolving doctrine in this area.