Chad S. Pehrson

I'll research this attorney before drafting.

Let me dig into the specific cases and PTAB work.

Chad S. Pehrson — Kunzler Bean & Adamson (Salt Lake City, UT)

Focus areas. Pehrson is a commercial litigator and registered patent attorney whose patent work sits at the hardware/electronics and software-systems end of the docket rather than pharma or standards-based Wi-Fi litigation. Publicly docketed matters include a DDR/memory-architecture patent dispute (Mallard IP v. Simply Nuc, asserting U.S. Patent 8,862,330 on "configuring digital functions in a digital configurable macro architecture"), a digital-signature/authentication patent case (Digital Verification Systems v. eFileCabinet), and a heat-exchanger technology case (International Mezzo Technologies v. Airborne ECS). His firm bio also lists trademark, securities, antitrust and general commercial litigation, so patent work is one part of a broader IP-and-commercial practice, not a standalone patent-only shop. He has described pairing an M.S. in chemistry with rhetoric training to explain technical subject matter to non-specialist judges and juries (Kunzler Bean & Adamson press release, June 2021).

Side preference. The structured dataset here contains only a single tracked appearance, recorded on the plaintiff side, and I could not verify a specific case corresponding to that entry — so that count should be treated as thin rather than probative. The patent matters I can verify from court records run the other way: he entered as counsel for the defendant in Mallard IP v. Simply Nuc (W.D. Tex.), Digital Verification Systems v. eFileCabinet (D. Utah), and International Mezzo Technologies v. Airborne ECS (M.D. La., transferred to W.D. Wash.), and he has represented plaintiff-side parties in other commercial and IP matters. On the available record he looks like a defense-leaning litigator who takes both sides, including work against non-practicing-entity patent plaintiffs, rather than a dedicated NPE/PAE prosecutor.

Firm context and notable matters. He joined Kunzler Bean & Adamson in June 2021 as a partner in the litigation section, arriving from Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, where he had been an associate and then an elected shareholder/partner. Before that he was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Palo Alto (listed on the firm's 2009 Elpida Memory patent dispute team) and clerked for U.S. District Judge Kim R. Gibson (W.D. Pa.). His most actively litigated tracked matter is Capana Swiss Advisors AG v. Rymark, Inc. (D. Utah, No. 2:23-cv-00467), a Swiss-corporation dispute in which he represents Rymark, Markosian, Kirkland and Small as defendants and counterclaimants; that case has generated extensive discovery, sealing and confidentiality-designation motion practice, including disputes over communications with his current and former firms. I found no reported verdict, Federal Circuit appeal, or judgment tied to him by name.

PTAB/IPR and credentials. No IPR, PGR or other PTAB proceeding appears in the public record I reviewed — he does not appear to be a regular post-grant practitioner, and any statement to the contrary would be unsupported. He was admitted to practice in Utah in 2010 (per Super Lawyers; other sources say 2008) and is also licensed in California and Colorado and registered with the USPTO. He holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School (2008), is repeatedly listed in Best Lawyers for patent law and commercial litigation (since 2022), and was a Super Lawyers "Rising Star" in IP litigation from 2013–2020. Some sources credit him with an M.S. in chemistry alongside an M.A. in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon; that combination is sourced only to the firm's press release and should be confirmed before relying on it.