Henry B. Gutman Esq.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Hank Gutman is Of Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and former Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice, concentrating in complex, high-technology litigation. Since 1985, Hank has served as lead counsel for Lotus Development Corporation, Intel, Daiichi Sankyo, Thompson Reuters, Verizon, Cisco, Qualcomm and other technology clients in a wide variety of major groundbreaking cases including, Lotus v. Borland (which he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court), Digital Equipment Corporation v. Intel, Trinko v. Verizon and Daiichi v. Mylan.

Mr. Gutman is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, where he serves as Chair of the Complex Litigation Committee and was a member of the State Committee for Downstate New York. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Council, the American Bar Association, the Copyright Society of America, the AIPLA, the NYIPLA and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property and technology litigation subjects.

He was a law clerk for the Hon. John F. Dooling, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.

Mr. Gutman is a co-author of the ACTL/Bloomberg BNA book Anatomy of a Patent Case.