WilmerHale

Mark D. Selwyn
Partner
Partner-in-Charge, Palo Alto Office; Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group


950 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304
+1 650 858 6031 (t)   +1 650 858 6100 (f)

60 State Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

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Education
  • JD, Columbia Law School, 1993, Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar; Articles Editor, Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems
  • AB, magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1990, John Harvard Scholar
Bar Admissions
  • California
  • Massachusetts
  • New York
Clerkships
  • The Hon. Naomi Reice Buchwald, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1993 - 1994
Related Information

Mark Selwyn is the partner-in-charge of the firm's Palo Alto office, a partner in the Litigation/Controversy Department and co-chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1994.

Practice

Mr. Selwyn’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. Major corporations have relied on him to litigate biomedical, electrical, chemical, mechanical, and business method patents involving a diverse array of technologies, including wireless communications, electronic commerce, digital cameras, solid state disk drives, location sensing, biosensors, water and wastewater filtration, integrated circuits and angioplasty catheters. He has represented clients in dozens of patent and other intellectual property cases in federal courts throughout the country and before the International Trade Commission (ITC). Mr. Selwyn counts among his clients many of Silicon Valley’s most prominent technology companies.

Honors and Awards

  • Named to the Los Angeles Daily Journal’s exclusive list of the "Top 75 IP Litigators in California" in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and the “50 Leading IP Litigators in California” in 2008
  • Recognized for exceptional standing in the legal community in the area of intellectual property in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions
  • Named as one of the "Top 100 Attorneys in Northern California" in 2011 by Super Lawyers magazine
  • Recognized in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers for his intellectual property litigation practice
  • Named a "Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star" in intellectual property litigation in the May 2005 edition of Boston Magazine

Publications

  • “The Royalty Treatment," The Daily Journal (September 11, 2009)
  • Higher Education Under Fire: The New Target of Antitrust, 26 Colum. J. L. & Soc. Probs. 117 (1992)
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