Mark Stephen Hegedus

Mark Stephen Hegedus — professional summary

Focus areas. On the available record Mr. Hegedus is best described as an antitrust and appellate-litigation attorney rather than a patent specialist. His only tracked patent-case appearance is Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Financial Corporation, a PAE assertion campaign in which the patent claims were paired with Capital One's Sherman Act §§ 1–2 counterclaims challenging IV's portfolio-licensing model — i.e., the patent/antitrust interface, not the underlying banking-software or data-management technology itself. Searches did not identify any Wi-Fi/standards, pharmaceutical, or mechanical patent docket practice for him.

Side preference. The tracked count is 0 plaintiff / 1 defendant, which is consistent with a defense-side posture, but it should be read with a caveat: the Federal Circuit docket for the IV v. Capital One appeal (No. 2018-1367, from D. Md. 8:14-cv-00111) lists Mark Stephen Hegedus as counsel of record for the Federal Trade Commission as amicus curiae, not for capital One. The "in-house / defendant" classification in the case data therefore appears to be an artifact of the FTC's amicus role rather than evidence that he was a Capital One in-house lawyer or an operating-company defender generally. He shows no NPE/PAE plaintiff-side practice.

Firm / institutional context. He spent 17 years (2008–2025) as a litigation attorney in the FTC's Office of the General Counsel in Washington, D.C., where he handled appellate and district court matters including Supreme Court proceedings and coordinated with the DOJ Solicitor General's Office, Antitrust Division, and Civil Division. Before the FTC he was a partner at Spiegel & McDiarmid LLP (energy and municipal/cooperative litigation, FERC and state commissions), and earlier a Trial Attorney in DOJ's Antitrust Division, Transportation, Energy & Agriculture Section (1998–2002). He is now General Counsel of the American Antitrust Institute, a competition-policy nonprofit — not a law firm or an in-house corporate role.

Notable matters / PTAB. In the IV v. Capital One litigation he was associated with the FTC's amicus participation in the Federal Circuit appeal. The underlying litigation is notable: the district courts held two of three patents ineligible under § 101 and the third non-infringed after claim construction, affirmed in Intellectual Ventures I LLC v. Capital One Bank (USA), 792 F.3d 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2015); the Maryland action produced further § 101 dismissals (affirmed on appeal) and Capital One's monopolization counterclaims ultimately fell on summary judgment. No IPR, PGR, or other PTAB appearances were found for him.

Education / bar. J.D., New York University School of Law; B.A. (political science), University of Michigan — sourced from his AAI and Sedona Conference bios. Specific bar admissions and dates could not be reliably verified from available sources.