Patrick D. Curran

Patrick D. Curran is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he is a founder and co-managing partner of the firm's Boston office. His practice focuses on high-stakes intellectual property and business litigation. Curran has a notable specialty in complex software, internet, and artificial intelligence technologies; he serves as the national co-chair of the firm's Artificial Intelligence Practice Group, handling disputes related to machine learning, large language models, and natural language processing. His broader patent litigation experience also includes matters in the life sciences, energy, and wireless communications sectors.

The provided case list shows Curran representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and his firm biography confirms a balanced practice of securing substantial plaintiff-side awards while also achieving complete defense victories. The tracked cases all relate to a dispute between AlmondNet, Inc. and Oath Holdings Inc. (formerly Yahoo!) over internet advertising patents, where Curran appeared for Oath/Yahoo as both a defendant and a declaratory judgment plaintiff. In that matter, he was on the team that secured a writ of mandamus from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit directing the district court to either dismiss or transfer the case due to improper venue.

Beyond the tracked cases, Curran's representative matters include obtaining a jury verdict of non-infringement and invalidity for a technology company in a patent case in the Eastern District of Texas concerning internet advertising technology. He also secured a complete defense jury verdict in the Northern District of California in a patent case involving search and data synchronization technologies, and has represented clients in multi-patent International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations. Public records do not indicate a specific focus on IPR or other PTAB proceedings.

Curran earned his J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review, and his undergraduate degree from Harvard College. Following law school, he clerked for the Hon. Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.