Mindy Sooter

Mindy Sooter maintains a robust patent litigation practice at WilmerHale, where she serves as a Partner-in-Charge of the Denver Office and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. Leveraging a background in engineering, her practice focuses on high-stakes commercial disputes involving complex technical subject matter, including telecommunications, electrical engineering, computer science, software, semiconductors, medical devices, and database technologies. Her expertise spans areas such as mobile-wallet platforms, payment tokenization, and semiconductor device architecture.

Her experience includes representing clients on both the plaintiff and defendant sides of patent litigation. For instance, she has appeared for the plaintiff in Visa USA Inc v. Cortex MCP Inc, a case involving mobile payment technology. Concurrently, her firm, WilmerHale, has publicly represented defendant Visa Inc. in patent infringement suits brought by Cortex MCP Inc. Sooter also represented defendant Intel Corporation in Greenthread, LLC v. Intel Corporation et al., a dispute concerning semiconductor patents.

Ms. Sooter's notable outcomes include securing a $12 million jury verdict for Clarisonic (a L'Oréal subsidiary) in a case of willful patent and trade dress infringement. She achieved a summary judgment of non-infringement, later affirmed by the Federal Circuit, in a patent case for Thomson Reuters involving multidimensional database technology. She was also a member of the WilmerHale team that secured a reversal of a $2.18 billion jury verdict for Intel in a patent dispute with VLSI Technology, related to microprocessor technology. Additionally, she regularly argues post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a mechanism utilized by her clients in cases such as Greenthread v. Intel and in challenges to Cortex MCP's patents by Visa.

Admitted to the Colorado bar and registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Ms. Sooter holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School (2003), an M.E. in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1999), and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University (1990). Prior to her legal career, she gained experience in management consulting and led an engineering group at a software startup.