Ann Marie Byers

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Ann Marie Byers — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Byers is a generalist IP litigator rather than a single-technology specialist. Her own professional bio describes a roughly fifteen-year litigation practice spanning patent, trademark, copyright and licensing disputes, with subject-matter experience in software, firmware, hardware, alternative energy, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Her most visible patent work has been in consumer electronics and display/interface hardware: LCD panel modules and touch panels (Innolux) and, most recently, active electrostatic digital pen/stylus technology and pen communication protocols promulgated by the Universal Stylus Initiative. Dorsey's announcement of her arrival describes a broader practice covering intellectual property, regulatory compliance, data privacy/security and complex civil and commercial disputes.

Side preference. Based on the one tracked appearance she registers as defense-side (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant), and that is consistent with the rest of her visible record: the largest matter I could verify was her work for Chimei Innolux and Innolux as ITC respondents, and Cooley's IP group did substantial defense work for technology manufacturers. There is no verified record of her prosecuting on behalf of NPEs/PAEs; the Mondis and Wacom matters both involved her on the operating-company/defendant side of the "v." — with the caveat noted below on the Wacom docket.

Firm context. She is currently Of Counsel in Dorsey & Whitney LLP's Intellectual Property Litigation group in Denver (joined October 2024). Before that she practiced as founding attorney of Byers Law LLC and as an ADR specialist at AB-Conflict Resolution Services, after a long tenure at Cooley LLP (originally Cooley Godward Kronish) in the firm's Broomfield/Denver office, where she appears in Colorado state bar records as No. 38898. Note one discrepancy: the tracked docket attributes her Wacom appearance to Cooley, but her Cooley departure predates that case's August 2024 filing, so the firm attribution for that entry should be confirmed against the docket.

Notable matters. Her most prominent verifiable result is Mondis Technology Ltd. v. Chimei Innolux Corp. and Innolux Corp. (E.D. Tex. and ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-828), where she was an associate on the Cooley team led by Thomas Friel, James Brogan and Stephen Smith. In August 2012, ALJ Theodore R. Essex issued a summary determination of no violation, holding that Innolux's payment of court-ordered ongoing royalties made it a licensed party and barred Mondis's parallel Section 337 exclusion action — a complete win that Cooley publicly credited to the team including Byers. Her tracked appearance is Wacom Co., Ltd. v. Shenzhen Qianfenyi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (Maxeye) in the Eastern District of Texas (seven patents on active electrostatic pen technology; the dispute also generated Letters Rogatory litigation in the Karnataka High Court). Wacom announced resolution of that case on August 27, 2026, with Maxeye agreeing to a consent judgment of infringement and validity, a license and royalty payments, plus an arbitration-based injunction mechanism. The tracked data lists Byers on the defendant side of that case; because Wacom is the plaintiff/patentee, that would place her with the Maxeye defense, but I could not independently verify her docket role or which party retained her — worth confirming before relying on it.

PTAB / IPR. Her published bio states she has practiced before the USPTO, the PTAB and WIPO, and lists WIPO arbitration/mediation panel service. I found no docket evidence of regular IPR/PGR appearances, so her PTAB experience appears occasional rather than a core specialty.

Bar / education. J.D., University of Michigan Law School; B.S., University of Wisconsin (Nuclear Medicine, Psychology, Chemistry). Colorado bar admission; other court admissions (D. Colo., E.D. Tex., E.D. Mich., Delaware Chancery) come from her own ADR profile and are not independently confirmed.

Disambiguation: at least one other attorney named Ann Marie Byers practices in Michigan (listed at Dykema Gossett, Ann Arbor); that is a different person and none of the above should be attributed to her. A Boulder, Colorado "Smith Byers LLC" listing may or may not be the same individual as this Byers.