Overview
Bryan is Co-Head of Dorsey’s Patent Prosecution, Portfolio Strategy & Management practice group. He advises clients on protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, which includes companies and brands across the optics, materials, clean energy, manufacturing, outdoor sports, fitness equipment, technology, and food and beverages industries. He has extensive experience drafting applications and managing patent family and world-wide prosecution portfolio strategies.
Bryan has a versatile technology counseling practice, directed at providing clients with advice and analysis needed to make critical business decisions. His counseling expertise includes due diligence, landscape, freedom-to-operate, and patentability opinions, as well as advice concerning potential enforceability and remedies.
In addition to his patent work, Bryan is also skilled in trademark prosecution. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Experience
Representative Work
Preparation and Prosecution
- Patent portfolio development and management
- Domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution
- Opinions and Counseling
- Patent infringement and validity analysis
- Non-infringement/invalidity opinions
- Product design counseling
Patent Licensing and Due Diligence
- Licensing negotiations and strategies
- Strategic patent acquisitions
- Product clearances
- IP due diligence
Pre-litigation and Litigation Strategies
- Inter Partes Review (IPRs)
- Post-Grant Review Proceedings (PGRs)
- Pre-litigation strategies
- Patent litigation
TECHNOLOGIES
Mechanical Engineering
Materials, composite systems, contact lenses and packaging, three-dimensional fabrications processes, clean energy technologies, agricultural equipment, automotive, athletic equipment, hunting and outdoor equipment
Medical Devices
Spinal implants, minimally invasive surgery, stimulators, prosthetics
Electrical/Computer Science/Electronic
Power supplies, computer peripherals, e-commerce business methods, computer printing devices, printer image processing, computer data storage, computer networking, telecommunications, computer hardware interfaces
Industries & Practices
Energy & Natural Resources
Explore This Practice View client achievements related to this practice View resources related to this practiceFood, Beverage & Agribusiness
Explore This Practice View client achievements related to this practice View resources related to this practiceIntellectual Property Litigation
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Explore This Practice View client achievements related to this practice View resources related to this practiceTrademark, Copyright & Advertising
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- Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Mining
- Patent Prosecution, Portfolio Strategy & Management
- Sustainability
- Trademark, Copyright & Advertising
Accolades
- Listed as a Mountain States Super Lawyer, Intellectual Property, 2020-2023
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America©, 2020-2023
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Intellectual Property, 2014-2022
- IAM Patent 1000: Recommended for Utah Individuals: Prosecution, 2016-2017; 2019-2021
- Managing Intellectual Property, IP Star, 2013-2021
- Utah Business Magazine, Utah Legal Elite, 2007-2017; 2019-2020
- Mountain States Super Lawyers® Rising Stars, Intellectual Property, 2010-2016
