Patrick Curran is a founder and co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel's Boston office and a partner in the firm's New York office. He focuses on high-stakes litigation, having secured over $900 million in plaintiff awards as first chair and obtained complete defense victories in bet-the-company disputes.
Patrick successfully litigates trade secret, patent, and copyright matters nationwide, including multi-jurisdictional IP disputes worth hundreds of millions. As national co-chair of Quinn Emanuel's Artificial Intelligence Practice Group, he handles AI and machine learning cases involving natural language processing, computer vision, large language models, generative AI, deep learning, and model optimization. He regularly addresses disputes issues in other fields, including life sciences, energy, software, and wireless communications.
Patrick also represents clients in complex business disputes. Those include breach of contract, fiduciary duty violations, financial fraud, and partnership disputes. Patrick’s victories span Delaware Chancery proceedings, New York's Commercial Division, and arbitrations through AAA, JAMS, ICDR, and major league sports systems.
Law360 named Patrick a nationwide "Rising Star" in Intellectual Property. Super Lawyers Magazine recognized him as a New York "Rising Star." Lawdragon named him a "Leading Global Media, Sports & Entertainment Lawyer."
Patrick serves as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches patent litigation.
- Applied Intuition
- Carlyle
- C3.AI
- IQVIA
- Markforged
- Neural Magic
- Qualcomm
- Samsung
- Sig Sauer
- Sony
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals
- Two Six Technologies
- Washington Nationals
- Verizon
- Vizgen
- Yahoo
- Zebra
- Obtained a jury verdict of noninfringement on behalf of startup company accused of patent infringement following a three-week jury trial in the District of Massachusetts.
- Obtained a jury verdict of noninfringement on behalf of a major technology company following a one-week jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas, in a patent case involving push messaging technologies.
- On behalf of a major technology company, successfully obtained a writ of mandamus from the Federal Circuit ordering the stay of a non-practicing entity’s claims pending in the Eastern District of Texas, in favor of a declaratory judgment suit involving those same patents pending in the Northern District of California.
- On behalf of a major consumer electronics company, obtained summary judgment of invalidity on Section 101 grounds for patent asserted against a popular software distribution platform.
- Obtained a jury verdict of noninfringement on behalf of a major technology company following a four-week jury trial in the Northern District of California in patent litigation involving search technology and data synchronization technologies.
- Represented a major technology company in multiple International Trade Commission investigations involving intellectual property in mobile telephones. Obtained complete defense victory in first investigation with respect to all patents handled by Quinn Emanuel. Secured ITC Staff recommendation for complete defense victory in second investigation before cases settled favorably.
- Obtained a jury verdict of noninfringement and invalidity on behalf of major technology company following a one-week jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas in a patent case involving internet advertising technologies.
- Following successful claim construction ruling, obtained stipulated dismissal of patent infringement claims in Eastern District of New York on behalf of major technology company in a dispute related to web server technologies.
- Obtained dismissal of patent infringement claims with prejudice, and denial of preliminary injunction, in Southern District of New York on behalf of major technology company in a dispute related to internet advertising technologies.
- Represented a global telecommunications company in state and federal litigation and international arbitration involving intellectual property in mobile telephones.
- Defeated motion for preliminary injunction and obtained dismissal with prejudice of all claims in New York Supreme Court on behalf of European bank in litigation filed by New York hedge fund regarding contractual dispute over credit facility.
- Obtained favorable settlements from strategic investor, management, outside counsel, auditor and others in connection with representation of litigation trust and private actions trust succeeding the bankruptcy estate of large financial services company.
- University of Chicago Law School
(J.D., with high honors, 2004)- University of Chicago Law Review:
- Executive Topics & Comments Editor
- Executive Topics & Comments Editor
- University of Chicago Law Review:
- Harvard University
(A.B., magna cum laude, 2001)
- The State Bar of New York
- The State Bar of California
- The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- United States Court of Appeals:
- Second Circuit
- Federal Circuit
- United States District Court:
- District of Massachusetts
- Northern District of California
- Southern District of New York
- Eastern District of New York
- Northern District of New York
- Eastern District of Texas
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi:
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2004-2005
- Selected as a “Rising Star” in Intellectual Property (Law360)
- Selected as a “Rising Star” in New York (Super Lawyers Magazine)
- Selected as a “Leading Global Media, Sports & Entertainment Lawyer” (Lawdragon)
- Comment, "Diluting the Commercial Speech Doctrine: 'Noncommercial Use' Under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act," 71 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1077 (2004)
- Comment, "Standard-Setting Organizations: Patents, Price-Fixing, and Per Se Legality,"
70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 983 (2003)