Bryan Collins, founding partner and intellectual property attorney

Bryan P. Collins

Founding Partner

Intellectual Property

  • 28 years of experience

  • Automotive Systems

  • Medical Devices

  • Industrial Tools

  • Software

  • Electronic Components

  • Consumer Products

  • Virginia

  • Massachusetts

  • District of Columbia

  • U.S. Supreme Court

  • U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

Bryan Collins brings more than 28 years of experience in intellectual property law to his practice, representing global technology leaders and innovators across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As a partner at an international IP boutique, Bryan advises clients on all aspects of IP strategy—from patent counseling and prosecution to complex litigation, post-grant proceedings, and cross-border enforcement.

With a technical background in mechanical engineering, Bryan combines deep technical insight with strategic litigation experience to help clients protect their innovations, manage risk, and achieve competitive advantage. He has served as lead counsel in numerous patent litigations, inter partes reviews, covered business method reviews, interference proceedings, reexaminations and ITC Section 337 investigations, as well as appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  He also led the coordination of litigations and invalidity proceedings in foreign jurisdictions.

Bryan’s work spans technologies including automotive systems, aerospace technologies, medical devices, industrial tools, software, electronic components, and consumer products. Known for his practical, business-oriented approach, he develops IP strategies that align with each client’s commercial and global objectives.

  • Successfully invalidated a database security patent at the pleading stage under Section 101, avoiding discovery.
  • Represented a defendant in biomaterials patent litigation involving self-aggregating peptide technologies; obtained a favorable claim-construction ruling leading to adverse judgment against the plaintiff.
  • Lead counsel in a case involving cutting edge medical device for non-invasive detection liver fibrosis and related conditions.
  • Represented a Tier I automotive supplier in patent litigation in the Eastern District of Virginia; favorably settled after Markman briefing.
  • Lead litigation counsel for one of the world’s largest IT providers in multiple IP disputes.
  • Achieved a major patent-litigation victory in the Eastern District of Virginia’s “Rocket Docket” for a global manufacturer.
  • Represented a major food manufacturer in design-patent litigation; secured favorable settlement after asserting antitrust counterclaims.
  • Represented a global shredder manufacturer; obtained reversal of a prior summary-judgment denial and final judgment in client’s favor.
  • Lead trial and appellate counsel in ITC investigation involving stud finders, resulting in complete victory for client affirmed in precedential Federal Circuit decision.
  • Defended a major phone-case brand in ITC, District Court and related IPR proceedings.
  • Lead trial and appellate counsel for a major tool manufacturer defending against design patent and unfair competition claims; secured a precedent-setting Federal Circuit affirmance of non-infringement.
  • Lead counsel in an interference proceeding involving high profile drug coated balloon catheters, resulting in precedential Federal Circuit decision completely in client’s favor.
  • Obtained summary judgment of non-infringement for a major tool manufacturer in the Northern District of California; affirmed on appeal.
  • Lead counsel in a covered business method (CBM) proceeding invalidating two internet-based translation system patents—despite prior district court findings of validity and infringement.
  • Served as lead appellate counsel in one of the earliest Federal Circuit appeals from an inter partes review, resulting in affirmance of unpatentability.
  • Lead counsel in litigation and IPRs concerning vacuum-cleaner technology, resulting in USPTO cancellation of all asserted claims.
  • Lead counsel in numerous IPRs in mechanical, electrical and automotive technologies.
  • Defended core insect-trapping patents in two third-party reexaminations and an opposition before the European Patent Office (EPO).
  • Defended a complex trade-secret and trademark case involving breach of distributorship claims; successfully defeated preliminary injunction and achieved favorable settlement.
  • Represented a spa-equipment manufacturer against trade-secret and trademark claims concerning controller software.
  • Represented a global manufacturer in securing and enforcing patent protection for pioneering safety innovations, coordinating actions in the U.S. and abroad.
  • Guided a medical-products company in developing and enforcing a key patent portfolio protecting its core technology.
  • Represented a pro bono client before the Virginia Court of Appeals, which found a due-process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • Recognized as an “IP Star” for Patents (National and Virginia), Managing Intellectual Property (2019 – 2024).
  • Nominated “Outstanding Litigator – Virginia”, Managing IP Americas Awards (2019).
  • Listed in The Legal 500 U.S. for Intellectual Property (2007 – 2009, 2011 – 2012) and Patents – Prosecution (2016 – 2017).
  • Burton Award for Excellence in Legal Writing, Recipient (2008).
  • J.D., cum laude, Boston University School of Law
    • Journal of Science and Technology Law
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Virginia | Massachusetts | District of Columbia | U.S. Patent & Trademark Office | U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal and Fourth Circuits | Multiple U.S. District Courts | U.S. Supreme Court