Brian Boyd is a Principal in Fish & Richardson’s Atlanta office. His practice spans all areas of intellectual property litigation and counseling, and he regularly appears in venues across the country on behalf of high-tech clients.

Mr. Boyd’s litigation and counseling experience encompasses a wide range of companies and technologies, including smartphones, IP telephony, GPS technology, computer architecture, mesh networks, network security, website technologies, flash memory design and fabrication, and LCD television technologies. Mr. Boyd regularly appears in the most active patent litigation forums, including the International Trade Commission.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Boyd served as a law clerk for the Honorable Alvin A. Schall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Before entering the practice of law, Mr. Boyd gained significant technical experience working at Schlumberger, where he designed electronics for high temperature drilling applications. He also worked for several years at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where he developed software and hardware for missile defense systems.