Alyssa Holtslander

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Practice focus. Alyssa Holtslander is a patent attorney whose practice is concentrated in post-grant proceedings before the PTAB — primarily inter partes reviews, along with ex parte reexamination — and, more recently, trademark/anti-counterfeiting work. She is currently Trademark Managing Counsel and Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents, LLC (she joined the organization in April 2019 and remains there in-house). Her technical background is mechanical engineering (B.S., Penn State) with a broad docket spanning electrical and mechanical arts: network and wireless systems, cellular devices, semiconductors and display technology, automotive/vehicle electronics, video streaming, and, in at least one tracked matter, pharmaceuticals. Earlier in her career she handled district court litigation, ITC proceedings, prosecution, due diligence, and freedom-to-operate opinions, so her PTAB work is grounded in a full-spectrum IP practice rather than a single tribunal. She is also responsible for Unified Brands, the firm's anti-counterfeiting service.

Side preference. Her tracked appearances are overwhelmingly petitioner-side: 15 of 16 matters are as plaintiff/petitioner, with Unified Patents challenging patents that have been asserted in district court against operating companies. This is consistent with Unified's model as a defensive patent aggregator — she is not an NPE/PAE-side filer, and the small defendant-side presence (one tracked entry, Stingray IP Solutions LLC v. Unified Patents) does not reflect a defense-side litigation practice so much as her role as an in-house Unified attorney. She is effectively a serial challenger of asserted patents on behalf of member/operating companies rather than a plaintiff's-side monetizer.

Firm context. Prior to Unified, Holtslander practiced for over ten years at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, where she worked on PTAB proceedings, ITC matters, district court litigation, and prosecution. Her move to Unified in 2019 shifted her to a primarily in-house, petitioner-side PTAB docket.

Notable matters and outcomes. Her docket includes challenges involving Samsung Display, Damaka, CellSpinSoft, AutoConnect Holdings, and Actelion Pharmaceuticals, among others. Verified results include the Federal Circuit's August 2021 summary affirmance of a PTAB ruling invalidating claims in Unified's IPR against Ortiz & Associates Consulting (argued by Holtslander in-house); a final written decision invalidating all claims of U.S. Patent 9,291,475 in IPR2022-00429 (Intellectual Ventures), with rehearing denied in January 2024; and the Federal Circuit's March 2026 affirmance of the PTAB's decision in IPR2023-00029 (U.S. Patent 6,965,920), handled in-house by Holtslander and Kelly Hughes on appeal. Not every matter succeeded — Unified, with Holtslander on the team, lost IPR2022-00285 and IPR2023-00453 to Arigna Technology in June 2023.

PTAB/IPR experience. Extensive and recurring. She is designated lead counsel in numerous IPRs and is listed in the PTAB Bar Association's 2025 "Top Diverse Practitioners in PTAB Trials" report, which recognizes practitioners with 20 or more total PTAB proceedings. This is the central feature of her practice.

Bar/education. Registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 64,026); J.D., George Washington University Law School; B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University. (State bar admissions were not independently verified in the sources reviewed.)