17 Mar 2026
Patent Litigator Mike Rueckheim Joins King & Spalding in San Francisco
"King & Spalding has hired patent litigator Mike Rueckheim as a partner in its Business Litigation practice in San Francisco; he will handle complex patent and IP litigation."
Rueckheim is a patent litigator who guides technology companies through complex patent and related matters. He has handled hundreds of patent matters across all stages of district court litigation and PTAB post-grant processes, from pre-suit investigations to jury trials and ITC hearings, and through appeals to the Federal Circuit. He advises clients in the semiconductor, memory, telecom, medical device, networking, and virtualization sectors, with a focus on standards-based issues. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he worked as a semiconductor process technician at Motorola, troubleshooting high‑tech instrumentation such as plasma etchers, and as an analytical research chemist in oil, gas and environmental labs focusing on mass spectroscopy.
Rueckheim joins King & Spalding from Winston & Strawn, where he was a partner and served as Chair of the Litigation Practice for the Silicon Valley office. He reunites with a group of partner colleagues who recently joined King & Spalding. He holds a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Texas and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Washington University Law School.