Amy E. Simpson

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Amy E. Simpson — Holland & Knight (Century City / Los Angeles); previously Perkins Coie (San Diego)

Focus areas. Simpson's practice is patent litigation and PTAB post-grant work for technology companies across a broad electronics and software mix: LED and lighting/heat-sink technologies, printers and wireless printing, wireless and cellular communications (including IEEE 802.3/802.11 standards), software, semiconductor manufacturing and packaging, LCD/display and touch-panel technology, data-center immersion cooling, and synthetic-diamond processing. Her Holland & Knight bio also notes work on whey-protein patents, so there is some life-sciences-adjacent exposure, but the core is electrical/computer technology. Her M.S. in computer science is consistent with that technical concentration.

Side preference. She works both sides but skews defense. The tracked list shows 6 defendant-side and 3 plaintiff-side appearances, and the plaintiff-side matters are largely brought by operating companies (BOE Technology as patent owner/petitioner; the Federal Circuit-tracked BOE v. 138 East LCD matters) rather than by NPEs. Her firm bio frames the practice as "offensive and defensive" disputes for technology companies, with representative engagements defending semiconductor, printing, lighting, power-management, and mobile-handset clients. In other words, she is not a volume NPE-side plaintiff's lawyer; the plaintiff-side work appears to be assertion on behalf of product companies.

Firm context. She joined Holland & Knight in June 2023 as part of a three-partner IP team from Perkins Coie (with James Coughlan and Terry Wikberg), and is in the firm's Century City/Los Angeles office. At Perkins Coie she was co-chair of the post-grant proceedings practice for over a decade; Holland & Knight's bio also states that at her prior firm she chaired the patent litigation practice for five years in San Diego. USPTO records list her registration (Reg. No. 54,688) under the Perkins Coie San Diego address, so older filings still reflect that affiliation.

Notable matters and outcomes. Tracked cases include Paneltouch Technologies v. BOE Technology Group (E.D. Tex.), where she is lead counsel defending BOE, and parallel BOE-side PTAB challenges to Paneltouch's touch-panel patents (several IPR2025-0124x/0148x proceedings, at least one terminated on settlement); Flexiworld Technologies v. Lexmark International and the related Lexmark v. Flexiworld PTAB matter, where she appeared pro hac vice in district court and as lead PTAB counsel for Lexmark; and the BOE Technology Group v. 138 East LCD Advancements matters. Verified results from firm and press sources include a jury verdict clearing Riot Platforms and its subsidiaries of infringement of Green Revolution Cooling's immersion-cooling patent (W.D. Tex., April 2026), and summary-judgment wins in the Western District of Texas for a lighting company and a power-management company on non-infringement and 31 correction-of-inventorship claims, which eliminated both the bench and jury trials in that case. Note one caution on attribution: in Longitude Licensing/138 East v. BOE (E.D. Tex. No. 2:23-cv-515), the January 2026 jury returned a $66.9M willful-infringement verdict against BOE; the announced trial team was Robins Kaplan, not Holland & Knight, so that outcome should not be attributed to Simpson even though BOE appears on both sides of her tracked case list.

PTAB / IPR. This is a centerpiece of her practice. She reports lead-counsel experience on more than 50 IPRs since the proceedings began in 2012, spanning conditional access, database software, virtual reality, printers, collision avoidance, and display technologies, and has been recognized among the top-performing attorneys representing patent owners before the PTAB. Her bio also cites defeating institution of 10 IPR petitions for an enterprise printing company and defeating institution of two IPRs on whey-protein patents for a Danish multinational cooperative. The tracked roles (IPR back-up counsel; lead PTAB counsel; lead counsel for Petitioner) are consistent with that volume.

Bar and education. Admitted in Utah (2000), D.C. (2002), and California (2005), and registered before the USPTO; J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center / University of New Hampshire School of Law (2000); M.S., computer science, George Washington University (2002); B.S., University of Idaho (1996). She served as a judicial intern for Judge Paul R. Michel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. (Bar dates and education from her Martindale and firm profiles; I did not independently verify current bar standing in each jurisdiction.)