Dustin F. Guzior

Practice Areas

Litigation; Antitrust; Artificial Intelligence; Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation; International Arbitration and Global Dispute Resolution.

Career

Dustin Guzior is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell's Litigation Group and co-head of S&C’s Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation practice. Dustin has an active trial practice across all venues—federal and state courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and foreign and domestic arbitrations. Since the beginning of 2022, Dustin has had major trial court wins in five different matters where he was the “first-chair” or co-lead trial counsel. For that work in the trial courts and on appeal, Dustin was named the “Litigator of the Week” or runner-up by The American Lawyer seven times between the start of 2022 and the end of 2023.

Dustin’s work during that period included a nine-figure jury trial win for Columbia University in a patent case; a complete defense win after trial in a five-patent case at the ITC; a £200 million settlement for a client in the run-up to a jury trial in a patent case; a complete defense win and fees award in a multi-billion euro ICC arbitration in Germany; and a major defense judgment from the Delaware Court of Chancery, affirmed by the en banc Delaware Supreme Court. Dustin also co-led the trial win in domestic arbitration for BlackBerry in a patent license dispute in which the adversary was ordered to pay BlackBerry nearly $1 billion.

Dustin also regularly advises and defends companies in trade secret cases, and frequently works with biotech

companies on those matters. Dustin has degrees in physics and biological chemistry, providing broad familiarity

with the technology issues in many of his cases.

Personal

Boston University School of Law (JD, 2010), The University of Chicago (BA, 2006)