Hannah Elizabeth Dawson

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Hannah Elizabeth Dawson — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Focus areas. The verified patent matters on her docket skew toward computer, networking, and storage technologies rather than life sciences or mechanical arts. Her tracked case, Security First Innovations, LLC v. Google LLC (E.D. Va. No. 2:23-cv-97), involved four patents asserted against Google's cloud services. She also appears as defense counsel for Viasat in Sandisk Technologies, Inc. v. Viasat, Inc. (N.D. Cal. No. 4:22-cv-4376), a flash-memory/storage patent dispute. In a supporting declaration filed in that case in 2025, she described her own practice as commercial litigation with particular experience in patent, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property matters. She has also appeared in trade-secret litigation under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (Vivint Inc. v. Sunrun Inc., D. Utah).

Side preference. Her tracked record is entirely defense-side — 0 plaintiff, 1 defendant — consistent with representing operating technology companies (Google, Viasat, SanDisk's adversary role aside). One caveat: a Dovel & Luner team page describes a Hannah Dawson as an associate whose practice "focuses on plaintiff-side consumer class actions," listing Quinn Emanuel as a prior firm and the identical educational credentials (Harvard J.D. 2020; University of Prince Edward Island B.B.A. 2017). That strongly suggests the same person has since moved to a plaintiff-side practice, but I could not independently confirm the timing or whether that page is current; the authoritative case data still shows her at Quinn Emanuel as of counsel.

Firm context. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Boston office (111 Huntington Ave.), where the tracked data lists her as of counsel. A 2025 fee declaration in the SanDisk/Viasat matter states that she was an associate at the firm at that time, and Quinn Emanuel announced a 2026 of counsel class on January 1, 2026 (the announcement page did not load with a name list in my search, so I cannot confirm she was included). Dovel & Luner (Santa Monica) appears as a subsequent or parallel affiliation per its team page.

Notable matters and outcomes. Security First Innovations v. Google is the most prominent tracked case: in a December 10, 2024 opinion (E.D. Va., Judge Walker), the court continued a stay of the litigation pending inter partes review of the asserted patents. Google's IPR petition on U.S. Patent No. 9,338,140 (IPR2024-00213) was filed November 27, 2023 and instituted June 6, 2024 per RPX. I found no verified jury verdict, damages award, or merits judgment attributable to her. In SanDisk v. Viasat, her declaration states she billed 893.5 hours, took depositions, drafted and edited briefs, and handled damages and standing analysis for the defendant. Her name also appears among Quinn Emanuel counsel of record in Knauf Insulation, LLC v. Johns Manville Corp. (S.D. Ind. No. 1:15-cv-00111); no outcome in that matter is attributable to her individually. Note the caption discrepancy: the tracked entry reads Google LLC v. Security First Innovations, LLC with Google as defendant, while the district court case is captioned Security First Innovations, LLC v. Google LLC; the inverted caption matches Google's IPR petition style.

PTAB / IPR. I found no confirmed record of her personally appearing before the PTAB. Her primary connection to PTAB work is indirect: the Security First Innovations district court case was stayed in favor of the IPR petition filed by her client. Quinn Emanuel as a firm is a frequent PTAB practitioner, but that is firm-level, not attorney-level, evidence.

Bar and education. Admitted in Massachusetts (2021, per Martindale); Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude (2020); University of Prince Edward Island, B.B.A. (2017) — the last two confirmed in her own 2025 court declaration.

Sourcing note: the track record here is thin (a single tracked appearance), and most detail comes from court filings and firm/law-firm directories rather than reported decisions. Any facts about her current firm affiliation should be verified directly, given the conflicting Quinn Emanuel and Dovel & Luner listings.