Amanda Tessar

Practice Areas

Patent Litigation

Litigation

ITC Litigation

Intellectual Property Law

Post-Grant Proceedings

Trade Secrets

Inter Partes Review (IPR)

Covered Business Method Review (CBM)

Reexaminations & Reissues

Arbitration

Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical

Semiconductor

5G Technology

Career

Amanda Tessar is a partner with the firm's Intellectual Property group whose practice focuses on patent infringement litigation and related claims, including indemnity issues specific to patent and intellectual property disputes. She has successfully represented leading technology companies in some of their most important and challenging intellectual property matters. Amanda has litigated complex, high-stakes patent cases around the country, including before a variety of federal district courts, the Federal Circuit, and the International Trade Commission, as well as through private arbitration. These cases have spanned a range of technical fields, including semiconductors and semiconductor packaging, GPS, WiFi, cellular telecommunications (including issues relating to 5G), audio and video codecs, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, mechanical devices, and biotechnology. Amanda has significant experience with issues unique to standard-essential patents and FRAND licensing disputes. Amanda was honored to be named a Thomson Reuters “Stand-out Lawyers” in 2024, to be listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Intellectual Property Litigation from 2018 – 2024, to be named “Litigation – Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America in 2022, to be listed in 5280 as one of Denver's Top Lawyers for Intellectual Property Litigation for the past four years, to be listed in Intellectual Asset Management Patent 1000 for Litigation for the past twelve years, and to be named an IAM Global Leader in 2024. Amanda previously served as a law clerk for Justice (later Chief Justice) Michael L. Bender of the Colorado Supreme Court. Before that, she interned for Judge (later Chief Judge) Wiley Y. Daniel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.