Tyler J. Dutton is an experienced patent litigator and director in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group. He specializes in patent disputes at federal district courts, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Tyler can tackle any technology that sends or receives data. His clients include leading companies in communications, computer graphics, bioinformatics, and automotive industries.
Tyler has been counsel on over 50 inter partes review proceedings. He has experience in all aspects of the inter partes review lifecycle, including drafting Petitions and Patent Owner Responses, taking and defending depositions, leading oral arguments, and successfully defending PTAB wins in front of the Federal Circuit.
Tyler is also an experienced trial lawyer. He is known for figuring out how a company’s technology does or does not align with a patent claim. He has a knack for discovering information through documentation, source code, and depositions. And he is able to find distinctions in complex technologies and distill them into an easy-to-understand legal argument. Most recently, he oversaw source code review, expert depositions, and infringement analysis to secure an $83.4 Million jury verdict of willful infringement.
When not drafting legal briefs or in a courtroom, Tyler is most likely found summiting a mountain or planning his next adventure.
Tyler received his J.D., with honors, from Emory University School of Law and his B.S., summa cum laude, in electronics engineering technology from South Dakota State University.
- TwinStrand Biosciences, Inc. v. Guardant Health, Inc.: Led source code review and expert discovery to establish willful infringement of two patents related to DNA sequencing, resulting in an $83.4M jury verdict. Cross examined key technical and fact witnesses at trial.
- Guardant Health, Inc. v. TwinStrand Biosciences, Inc.: Led source code review and expert discovery to defend against counterclaims of patent infringement, resulting in a dismissal with prejudice of all counterclaims before trial.
- G+ Communications, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co.: Successfully defended a wireless telecommunications patent in an ex parte reexamination to maintain a $61M jury verdict.
- Dental Monitoring v. Get-Grin Inc.: Drafted and filed ex parte reexamination requests of asserted patents related to dental imaging, resulting in a stay of the district court case and cancellation of Dental Monitoring’s asserted patent claims.
- Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc.: Led efforts to invalidate every claim of two asserted patents related to industrial meat slicers. First chaired oral arguments at the PTAB and the Federal Circuit to achieve the favorable outcome.
- Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. v. Wirtgen America, Inc.: Led efforts to invalidate every claim of an asserted patent related to a road paving machine and successfully opposed a motion to amend. First chaired oral arguments at the PTAB and the Federal Circuit to achieve the favorable outcome.
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.: Drafted substantive briefing in several inter partes review proceedings to prove that the inventors were the first to invent a technology in the graphics processor for the X-Box 360.
- J.D., Emory University School of Law, with honors
- B.S., Electronics Engineering Technology, South Dakota State University, summa cum laude
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Patent & Trademark Office