Heath J. Briggs

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Let me verify a few final points: prior firm history, and the outcome of the Aerin/Neurent dispute.

Heath J. Briggs — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Specialty and technology focus. Briggs is a registered patent attorney and chemical engineer whose contentious practice is concentrated at the intersection of patent office trials and patent prosecution, rather than traditional district court trial work. Greenberg Traurig describes his technical experience as spanning LEDs, computer software and telecommunications, medical devices, complex material systems, and chemical processing, with listed concentrations in materials science/metallurgy, additive manufacturing, dietary supplements, water treatment, solar cells, and chemistry. The tracked matters are consistent with that profile: LED/display backlight technology in the Light Guide Innovations dispute, and radiofrequency nasal-airway medical devices in the Aerin/Neurent litigation. His bio notes he is a chemical engineer by training, and Chambers' Colorado intellectual-property entry credits him with manufacturing, medical device, and computer software patent proceedings.

Side preference. The tracked docket records five plaintiff-side and two defendant-side appearances, but that split should be read carefully because several of the "plaintiff" entries are PTAB proceedings in which his client is the petitioner challenging someone else's patent. His client base is operating companies, not NPEs/PAEs: he has represented Samsung, SK hynix, Kia Motors, B. Braun, Schlumberger, and Limelight Networks, and in the tracked matters he acted for Hisense (challenging a backlight patent asserted by Light Guide Innovations, an NPE affiliate of Anjay Venture Partners) and for Aerin Medical/The Foundry (asserting and then defending nasal-airway device patents against competitor Neurent). He also appears on the patent-owner/respondent side—for The Foundry in the Neurent IPRs and for Aerin as respondent in Neurent's IPRs. Net: he works both sides of the "v." but is fundamentally defense- and patent-owner-oriented rather than a plaintiff's NPE litigator.

Firm and practice role. Briggs is a Shareholder in Greenberg Traurig's Denver office and Co-Chair of the firm's Global Patents and Innovation Strategies Group (its global patent prosecution practice). Legal 500 lists him among the practice heads for US patents prosecution, and he appears in firm rankings for both prosecution and post-grant proceedings. I could not verify any prior law firm history from reliable sources; the sourced record shows only Greenberg Traurig, so any earlier-firm career should be treated as unconfirmed.

Notable matters and outcomes. In the Aerin Medical/Neurent Medical dispute (D. Del. C.A. No. 23-756), Briggs is on the team representing Aerin and The Foundry, which asserted eight patents on nasal-airway RF treatment devices; the district case was stayed pending PTAB final written decisions, and the PTAB's dockets show the Board instituted IPRs on all asserted patents and ultimately found the challenged claims unpatentable in multiple final written decisions (including IPR2024-00277 as to the '271 patent and IPR2024-00280 and IPR2024-00669), with Aerin statutorily disclaiming the asserted claims of the '597 and '194 patents. In the Hisense matter, the Board denied institution of IPR2025-01538 on discretionary grounds in January 2026. His bio also credits him with drafting the patent owner response in Becton, Dickinson & Co. v. B. Braun Melsungen AG (IPR2017-01586) that produced the PTAB's "Becton factors," and with serving as lead practitioner in Samsung Elecs. Am., Inc. v. Prisua Eng'g Corp., 948 F.3d 1342 (Fed. Cir. 2020), the appeal holding the Board may decide §102/§103 unpatentability of claims notwithstanding an IPXL indefiniteness dispute—a notable Federal Circuit result, though I did not independently verify the extent of his role.

PTAB/IPR experience. This is the core of his practice: Greenberg Traurig's profile states he has been involved in more than 120 inter partes reviews and roughly 20 US reexaminations, plus more than 50 European oppositions. Patexia has ranked him in the Top 100 most active IPR attorneys since 2020 (ranked 29th among best-performing IPR/AIA trial attorneys in 2019), and he is listed in IAM Patent 1000 for post-grant proceedings.

Bar and education. B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder (1997); J.D., University of Denver Sturm College of Law (2003); admitted in Colorado (2003) and registered with the USPTO (Reg. No. 54,919). He has taught an intellectual-property course for engineering students at CU Boulder as an adjunct since 2005.

Note: several details above (his precise Federal Circuit role in Prisua, his prior-firm history, and the ultimate disposition of the Aerin/Neurent district litigation beyond the PTAB rulings) are not fully confirmed by the sources reviewed and should be verified before external use.