Ross Viguet joined the Dallas office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. as an associate in 1995. He has extensive experience in technology as well as business.  His business career began with a computer systems integration and service company. In his six years as the head of the company, Ross grew the operation into one of Arkansas' largest system integrators. After selling the company, Ross earned a J.D. and joined Fulbright & Jaworski upon graduation. 

His practice focuses on transactional intellectual property matters, including patent preparation and prosecution, licensing, infringement and validity opinions, negotiations, client counseling, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, portfolio management and strategy, foreign patent prosecution, trademark registration and opposition, and copyright registration. Ross argues cases before tribunals at the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and is involved in multiple IP litigation projects.

• Preparing and prosecuting domestic and international patents in the radio frequency, telephony, micro-electronics, electronic commerce, computer, medical device, chemical, manufacturing, restaurant equipment, publishing, automotive, public transportation, ordinance, optics, hydrocarbon production, and cryptographic arts
• Conducting multiple interference proceedings in the USPTO, including provoking the interferences, putting on the cases in chief, and arguing the cases before the USPTO Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, for determinations of inventorship for manufacturing technology and advanced security technology
• Conducting both ex parte and inter partes reexamination proceedings in the USPTO for highly contested patents covering fundamental communications technology and highly commercially successful technology
• Managing intellectual property due diligence projects in association with acquisition of a business division from a major technology company, merger of telecommunications companies, and acquisition of medical device portfolios
• Drafting and negotiating technology licenses, joint development licenses, requirements documents, technology transfer agreements, and outsourcing agreements in the fields of communications, electronic commerce, software development, manufacturing, and medical devices

• American Bar Association
• Dallas Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
• Intellectual Property Owners Association, Patent Office Inter Partes Proceedings (U.S.) Committee
• Texas State Bar Computer & Technology Section Counsel

• Co-author with David Tannenbaum, Thomas Kelton and Nathan Rees, "Reexaminations – Fertile Ground in the Changing Landscape of Patent Law," The International Law Firm of Fulbright & Jaworski - Intellectual Property Paper, August 2009
• Co-author with Wayne St. Hugh Livingstone, "The New USPTO Guidelines on the Determination of Obviousness," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, October, 2007
• Co-Author with Michael Papalas and John Schneider, "New PTO Rules Relating to Patent Prosecution," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Client Alert, June 2006
• "National Car Rental v. Computer Associates: A Hole in Computer Software Copyright Protection that You Can Drive A Rental Car Through," Arkansas Law Review, 49 Arkansas Law Review 93
• Co-author with David Tannenbaum, Thomas Kelton and Nathan Rees, "Reexaminations – Fertile Ground in the Changing Landscape of Patent Law,"  Bloomberg Law Reports, Intellectual Property, Vol. 3, No. 31, August 3, 2009.

• "Technology: not Bits and Bytes, but Business Success," North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, 1st Annual Business Technology Outlook, October 24, 2007
• "Considerations in Drafting, Prosecuting and Enforcing Patents in the US:  Focusing on Networking, Wireless Communications and Semiconductor Technologies," ASTRI Intellectual Property Seminar, March 1, 2006
• "The Basic Patent License," Light House Seminar Group, IP Licensing Nuts & Bolts 2004, October 27, 2004
• "U.S. Patents: Are Recent Changes Making them Harder to Obtain and Enforce?," Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) Intellectual Property Seminar, June 2, 2009.

1995 - J.D., highest honors, University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville
1984 - B.S., electrical engineering, University of Tulsa

While in law school, Ross was a member of Phi Delta Phi and the Arkansas Law Review.

Ross is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1996.

• North Dallas Chamber of Commerce,Board Member
• Castle Hills Business Association, Board Member