Hank Gutman is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he is the Chair of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, concentrating in complex, high-technology, intellectual property litigation.  Since 1985, Mr. Gutman has served as lead counsel for Lotus Development Corporation, Intel, Daiichi Sankyo, Reuters, Verizon, Cisco, Polaroid and other technology clients in a wide variety of major groundbreaking cases including, Lotus v. Borland (which he argued before the United States 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 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.

Mr. Gutman was appointed by New York’s Governor to serve on the Judicial Screening Committee for the Second Department, which includes Brooklyn where Mr. Gutman and his family reside and he has long been active in civic affairs.  

Although he serves on numerous civic and charitable boards, Mr. Gutman has been most deeply involved in the decades-long effort to build Brooklyn Bridge Park, where he serves on the boards of both the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation.

Mr. Gutman graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (A.B. 1972) and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1975).  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.  Mr. Gutman is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Ninth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits and the courts of the State of New York.

Honors/Associations

•	Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers

Publications

•	The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act
•	In re Seagate: A New Standard for Willful Patent Infringement
•	eBay: The Final Word?
•	The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay
•	KSR v. Teleflex: A New Flexible Regime for Obviousness
•	Microsoft v. AT&T: Limiting the Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Patent Law
•	The Supreme Court Rejects Automatic Permanent Injunctions in Patent Cases in eBay v. MercExchange
•	In Phillips v. AWH, the En Banc Federal Circuit Refocuses Claim Construction on a Patent's Intrinsic Evidence

Speaking Engagements

•	NYU Law Invites Hank Gutman to Speak at Event Honoring Professor Arthur Miller March 23, 2010

Admissions

•	New York 1977
•	U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York 1977
•	U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York 1977
•	U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York 1981
•	U.S. Tax Court 1981
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit 1978
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit 1984
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit 1984
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit 1989
•	U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit 1995
•	U.S. Supreme Court 1994

Clerkships

•	Hon. John F. Dooling, Jr., E.D.N.Y.

Education

•	Harvard Law School, 1975 J.D. cum laude
•	University of Pennsylvania, 1972 A.B. With Distinction in Major; cum laude