Bryn Resser Pallesen

Summary — Bryn Resser Pallesen (WSBA #57714)

Bryn Resser Pallesen is a Seattle-area litigator whose docket is broader than patent law: firm bios and court filings describe a practice spanning antitrust, complex commercial, class actions, and constitutional/civil matters, with patent work arising largely in a local-counsel capacity. Her single tracked patent appearance — Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (W.D. Wash.) — was plaintiff-side local counsel for Flexiworld, a patent-holder/assertion plaintiff, in a software-technology infringement suit against Amazon. Court records also show her on patent dockets as Harrigan Leyh local counsel for IBM in IBM v. Zillow Group (with Desmarais LLP as lead) and for NXP in NXP USA Inc. v. Impinj, Inc., so her patent practice skews toward plaintiff-side and local-counsel roles. Outside patent litigation, however, she has represented defendants (City of Seattle in Hunters Capital v. City of Seattle, Philips entities in the Philips CPAP product-liability MDL, and eBay as an interested party in De Coster v. Amazon), indicating no fixed side preference.

Firm context. Pallesen is currently with Ballard Spahr LLP (Anchorage/Seattle), per 2026 docket entries and state bar registration data. She previously practiced at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Seattle, through roughly July 2025), the Seattle trial boutique Harrigan Leyh Farmer & Thomsen LLP (through 2022), and Bryan Cave (Seattle, per Law360's 2021 Flexiworld listing). An archived Orrick bio adds that she earlier was a litigation associate in the New York office of an international firm and clerked for two federal district courts. Her career path — big firm, Seattle boutique, back to big firm — is consistent with a general commercial litigator who takes patent matters as part of a broader caseload.

Notable cases / PTAB. The most prominent tracked matter is Flexiworld v. Amazon.com, though no verdict or settlement in that case could be verified from the available sources; her other high-profile work is non-patent (the Seattle CHOP/CHAZ-related Hunters Capital litigation and the Philips MDL). No IPR/PGR or PTAB appearances were identified in any source reviewed, and her roles in the patent cases found were local-counsel, not lead trial counsel. Bar/education: Washington State Bar (WSBA #57714); admitted in New York in 2013 per registration data; law school not reliably sourced in available records and therefore omitted.