Brian LaCorte

Practice Areas

Brian W. LaCorte leads the firm’s Intellectual Property Group in Phoenix. Nationally recognized as a preeminent intellectual property lawyer, he handles bet-the-company patent litigation and high-profile infringement disputes with invaluable IP assets on the line. As lead trial counsel for GoDaddy, he recently secured a victory in Delaware following a weeklong jury trial, obtaining a complete defense verdict in a patent infringement case with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

Brian focuses on patent and trademark litigation, and many of his cases have made new law, as well as national headlines. He represents public and privately held companies across several industry sectors, including e-commerce technologies, software, automotive, medical devices and data security. He has litigated more than 100 IP matters with a long record of accomplishment in state, federal, and appeals courts across the country—including in hotbeds of IP litigation like Delaware, Texas, New York and California.

Career

Admissions

Arizona

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Memberships

Professional Activities

American Intellectual Property Law Association, member, Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution

Arizona "Smart Beginnings" Task Force, member

Arizona Governor's Statewide Youth Development Taskforce, past member, Education Subcommittee

Association of Trial Lawyers of America/American Association for Justice, past member

Arizona Coalition to End Homelessness, past member