Paul Douglas Swanson

Paul Douglas Swanson is a Partner at Holland & Hart LLP, where his practice encompasses intellectual property litigation as a core component of his broader business and antitrust litigation work. He primarily handles defense-side engagements in patent disputes, as evidenced by his appearance defending a client in his tracked case. His experience at the firm has included a tenure as Of Counsel before his current role as Partner.

Mr. Swanson's patent litigation experience includes disputes involving mechanical technologies, exemplified by his representation of the defendant in RARE BREED TRIGGERS, INC. et al. v. TACTICAL DEPLOYMENT SYSTEMS, LLC, DBA GUNFIGHTER. Beyond patent matters, his practice extends to general technology industry disputes, antitrust and competition law, trade secret enforcement, business torts, commercial fraud, and complex contract disputes. Notably, he successfully defeated summary judgment for a global electronics distributor on a Uniform Commercial Code implied warranty of non-infringement claim in federal court, which led to a favorable settlement. He also secured summary judgment and a fee award for an alternative-energy developer in an arbitration.

Mr. Swanson is admitted to practice in Colorado and New York, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Tenth Circuits, as well as several U.S. District Courts. He earned his J.D., summa cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2012 and his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California - Berkeley in 2006. There is no readily available information indicating his regular appearance in PTAB or IPR proceedings.