Coyne, Patrick

Patrick is a trial and appellate attorney. His litigation experience includes patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret claims; licensing; related antitrust and unfair competition issues; general commercial litigation; products liability; and domestic and international arbitration. He also assists clients with strategic portfolio development and management.

Patrick has argued more than 100 cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal and regional Circuit Courts of Appeals, District Courts, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC); and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He served as a law clerk and technical advisor to Circuit Judge Edward S. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Patrick has been recognized as a leading patent litigator in the D.C. area by Intellectual Asset Management.

He has represented Raytheon Technologies, United Technologies, Collins Aerospace, Otis Elevator, Chevron, LG Electronics, InterDigital, Gold Peak, FMC, Energy Conversion Devices and Ovonic Battery Company, Ciena, Mobil Oil Corporation, Trex Company, Danaher, Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Allegheny Teledyne, and Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, among other clients.

Patrick received a degree in civil engineering and studied nuclear engineering. He worked as an engineer before attending law school and has experience with structures, dynamics, fluids, and mechanics. As an engineer, he worked on a variety of energy technologies, including large and small-scale solar thermal and photovoltaic as well as biomass, and he has engineering experience in construction, pipelines, and fluids. His engineering background has served him well in a variety of legal matters he has handled for clients, including oil field goods, exploration and production, satellite gravimetry, nuclear well-logging, pipelines, refining, catalysis, a wide variety of downstream petrochemical products, and a wide variety of materials. He has also used his engineering insight representing clients in connection with telecommunications; energy storage systems, including various electrochemical battery technologies; electric motors, diesel engines; gas turbine compressors; computational fluid dynamics; and software for geographic information systems and tracking, among other fields.