A strategist at heart, a litigator by trade, an experienced, and neutral trusted partner in helping protect your IP rights
More than four decades of experience in commercial, antitrust, unfair competition, and intellectual property litigation, appeals, and rights development and management.
Dispute Resolution: Get strategic solutions, not just arguments.
When you’re approaching a negotiation, it’s important to understand conflict theory, your counter party, and the most effective strategy. Schedule a consultation for expert analysis and recommendations. Browse the most common resolution strategies in business negotiations.
Are you leaving value on the table?
Get expert valuation and more.
Valuing IP assets can be a complex challenge. Whether to value intellectual property assets for a transition or reorganization, to resolve a dispute, or to evaluate a business idea, expert valuation can support and advance your business goals.
With over forty years of commercial litigation trial and appellate experience, I have substantial experience in some of the most challenging issues in commercial disputes and intellectual property cases. I began my career in commercial and products liability litigation. I worked closely with some of the leading lawyers at that time on significant antitrust and unfair competition matters. Specializing in all forms of intellectual property rights for most of my career, I have tackled many of the toughest issues in intellectual property law: patentability, distinctiveness, copyrightability, protectability of trade secrets, infringement, enforceability, and damages. I have tried many issues most practitioners rarely, if ever, encounter, including: inventorship, ownership, interference, duty of candor, and fraud. Whether in a reorganization, potential transaction, or litigation, many clients face difficult valuation and damages issues. Address these issues effectively and persuasively, accomplish your business objectives by expert support to help.
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Consulting
In addition to litigation, I maintained a robust counseling practice throughout my career. I have substantial expertise in crafting thorough, well-reasoned, and—most important—defensible opinions on behalf of clients. I have been a trusted advisor to a wide range of clients from individuals, to small and medium enterprises, to multinational corporations. I counsel and advise on a wide variety of issues ranging from antitrust and unfair competition, trade secrets, data, privacy, and intellectual property development and portfolio management. I develop and execute effective acquisition and enforcement programs, as well as anticipated and effectively defend against competitor, as well as non-practicing entity, challenges. Decades of experience enable me to accurately appreciate and understand the business challenges facing my clients and craft effective legal strategies to achieve their business goals.
“When I learned that Patrick Coyne had retired from practicing law to launch a mediation and arbitration practice, my immediate reaction was that he had exactly the right skill set—and that he quickly would be in high demand. I worked closely with Patrick for 15 years, hiring him to represent one of our business units in numerous complex and significant intellectual property and commercial litigation matters.
While Patrick is, of course, a highly skilled lawyer—with deep experience in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret claims, and related antitrust and unfair competition issues—he is so much more. He is a patient and effective listener who always understood our business objectives. He consistently delivered the results we sought, often by pursuing practical solutions rather than narrowly focusing on courtroom wins. His judgment on critical issues is consistently sound, and he has a rare ability to choose the right path, even when reasonable minds might differ. He also excels at separating meaningful legal and factual questions from mere noise.
I enthusiastically and unequivocally endorse Patrick as a neutral arbitrator or mediator in any case within his broad professional bandwidth.”
Steven M. Greenspan
Corporate Vice President and Worldwide Litigation Counsel (Retired)
RTX Corporation (formerly United Technologies Corporation)
March 2025
Neutral Evaluation Services to Support and Advance Your Business Goals
Mediation and Arbitration
Your dispute does not have to end up in out-of-control, seemingly endless, costly, and frustrating litigation. With more than four decades of commercial and intellectual property trial and appellate lawyer experience, I can help you reach your business goals while retaining control over your dispute and its resolution. Even if an opponent will not agree to Alternative Dispute Resolution, having a more realistic appraisal of your case helps you effectively manage risk.
It is critical to understand and accurately assess your alternatives. This not only includes your probability of success, it requires accurately accessing all potential outcomes, and what it's going to cost you to get there. I can offer you tools that will help you assess and manage opportunities and risks more effectively.
Valuation of Intellectual Property Assets and Damages Assessments
The value at stake dominates litigation, many transactions and transfers of intellectual property rights. Achieve a reasonable and defensible valuation of intellectual property assets. Knowing what is at stake in your dispute is critical to successfully managing the risk and resolving it.
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From Conflict to Clarity:
Negotiation Strategies and Tips
Conflict Theory
A branch of sociology and psychology that addresses the various types of conflicts, their causes, and approaches to conflict resolution.
Sources of conflicts:
Values
Beliefs
Competition
Misunderstandings
Personality
Interests
Culture
Common negotiation strategies
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Positional negotiation remains one of the most popular negotiation strategies, but also one of the most rigid and inefficient. It can distract from building trust or a relationship as part of the process.
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Transactional strategies are most common in business settings. Successful negotiators will need much more information and cultural awareness, particularly when dealing with international parties and global issues.
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Hardball is an extreme approach that offers little if any concessions, and uses warnings, threats, and attacks to achieve a goal.
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Interest-based negotiation focuses on underlying needs and goals rather than fixed positions. It often encourages collaboration and creative problem-solving.
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Problem-solving negotiation emphasizes logic, collaboration, and shared interests. It’s effective for building lasting agreements and strong relationships.
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Decision-based negotiation centers on how each party makes choices. It helps reduce bias, clarify options, to build fair, transparent agreements and outcomes.
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Hostage-taking negotiation uses extreme leverage or threats to force a concession. It's emotionally driven rather than rational.
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Product Liability
Contracts
Distribution
Licensing
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SEP
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Data Rights
Privacy
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Mission
I focus on helping you resolve disputes, manage risk, and achieve your business goals.
About Patrick Coyne
Patrick Coyne understands the importance of effective intellectual property strategy in today’s business environment.
For over 40 years, Patrick supported clients in trials and appeals, as well as prosecution, administrative proceedings, and portfolio development, with effective successful legal and business strategies. He has served as President of three National Bar Associations; the American Intellectual Property Law Association; the Federal Circuit Bar Association; and the Federal Circuit Historical Society.
He is widely recognized for his breadth of knowledge and experience in the field of intellectual property law. In addition to commercial litigation, antitrust and unfair competition, he has specialized in patent, trademark, copyright, data rights, and trade secret matters. As a private practitioner, he assisted clients with strategic portfolio development and management, licensing, and transactional matters, and strategies to avoid and prevail in litigation
Patrick has tried over 100 cases in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. He has represented clients before state and federal trial and appeals courts, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC), the Patent Trial and the Appeal Board (PTAB), and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Patrick has established a reputation for creative problem-solving, and his ability to find common ground among parties to seemingly intractable disputes. He is conscientious, imaginative, creative, persistent, and dedicated to helping parties resolve their disputes in a fair and efficient manner.