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WilmerHale Offices

950 PAGE MILL ROAD
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 94304
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Mark Selwyn

Work Department
Intellectual Property Litigation ; Intersection of Antitrust and IP ; Litigation ; Life Sciences ; Trials
Position
Partner
Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group
Career
Mark Selwyn is a partner in the Litigation/Controversy Department and co-chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1994.
Mr. Selwyn’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. Major corporations have relied on him to litigate biomedical, electrical, chemical, mechanical, and business method patents involving a diverse array of technologies, including wireless communications, electronic commerce, digital cameras, solid state disk drives, location sensing, biosensors, water and wastewater filtration, integrated circuits and angioplasty catheters. He has represented clients in dozens of patent and other intellectual property cases in federal courts throughout the country and before the International Trade Commission (ITC). Mr. Selwyn counts among his clients many of Silicon Valley’s most prominent technology companies.
Mr. Selwyn is a member of the California Bar Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Memberships
California
Massachusetts
New York
Education
JD, Columbia Law School, 1993
AB, Harvard University, 1990
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
With full-service capabilities and a global reach, WilmerHale‘s patent attorneys are praised by clients as ‘second to none in their ability to find the right strategies and execute them to win.‘ The firm’s intellectual property litigation practice is co-chaired by Mark Selwyn in Palo Alto, who represents major tech companies in multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional IP disputes, and Lisa Pirozzolo in Boston, who specializes in life sciences disputes and Hatch-Waxman cases. Also in Boston, William Lee is an expert trial and appellate lawyer in IP, Emily Whelan focuses on litigation in the chemistry, biotech and pharmaceuticals fields, Joseph Mueller specializes in IP cases with antitrust elements, and Michael Summersgill is praised as a ‘superlative trial lawyer.‘ New York-based Robert Gunther is a seasoned trial lawyer who has specialist knowledge in IP disputes in both the tech and life sciences industries, while litigator Sonal Mehta in Palo Alto represents clients primarily in tech-related patent disputes. The group also includes IP litigation specialists Brittany Amadi and Gregory Lantier in Washington DC as well as Omar Khan in New York, who focuses on the life sciences sector.
United States > Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
WilmerHale‘s IP practice is well-regarded for its patent litigation work and increasingly represents its blue-chip clients in Section 337 investigations. The group is led by IP specialist Mark Selwyn in Palo Alto, who co-chairs the firm’s wider intellectual property litigation group and has experience litigating patent infringement disputes for a wide variety of tech companies. James Dowd in Los Angeles focuses his practice on patent litigation and strategy and is seasoned litigating before the ITC. Boston lawyer Sarah Frazier, who has a diverse litigation practice with a particular emphasis on IP disputes, is another a key contact.
Lawyer Rankings
- Patents: litigation (full coverage) United States > Intellectual property
- Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission) United States > Intellectual property
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense