Heath J. Briggs

Heath Briggs, Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Patents and Innovation Strategies Group, is a chemical engineer, a registered patent attorney, and has more than 19 years of patent prosecution experience and 10 years of AIA trial experience. Heath has represented several entities in connection with over 120 inter partes review proceedings (IPRs), including representing companies such as Samsung, Limelight Networks, B. Braun, Kia Motors, Schlumberger, and SK hynix. Heath’s AIA experience spans a wide variety of technologies, with significant experience in proceedings involving patents to LEDs, computer software & telecommunications, medical devices, complex material systems and chemical processing. Since 2020, Patexia has ranked Heath as one of the most active IPR attorneys in the country (Top 100), and in 2019, Patexia ranked Heath 29th out of the Top 100 Best Performing IPR/AIA Trial Attorneys (representing Petitioners or Patent Owners).

Outside of the new post-grant review processes, Heath has worked on nearly 20 U.S. patent reexaminations (both inter partes and ex parte), and more than 50 European opposition proceedings for his clients.

Since 2005, Heath has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches engineering students a self-designed course on intellectual property law. He was also selected by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to provide online IP training for its chemical engineering members. Heath is involved in the community, where his passion is to educate aspiring inventors and entrepreneurs about intellectual property.

Concentrations

•Legal Areas
•Patent prosecution and licensing
•Post-issuance patent proceedings, including inter partes review, post-grant review, covered business method patents, ex parte reexaminations and oppositions (Europe)
•Patent opinions
•Technical Areas
•Materials science and metallurgy, including aluminum and aluminum alloys and advanced ceramics
•Telecommunications, internet and computer software
•Additive Manufacturing/3-D Printing
•Dietary supplements and food products
•Water treatment
•Solar cells and solar energy
•Chemistry and chemical compounds
•Medical devices Military devices

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Intellectual Property> Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings), 2024-2025
•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Patent Law, 2019-2026
•Listed, Managing IP Magazine's World IP Handbook and Survey, 'IP Stars: Patent Stars,' 2017-2025
•Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2017-2019, 2024-2025
•Colorado - Intellectual Property, 2024-2025
•'Recognized Practitioner,' 2016-2019
•Listed, IAM magazine, 'IAM Patent 1000,' 2014-2025
•Post-Grant Proceedings, 2021-2025
•Prosecution, 2014-2019 and 2024-2025
•Recipient, University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science, 'Alumni Engagement Medal Award,' 2026
•Ranked by Patexia amongst the Top 100 Most Active CAFC Attorneys (Representing Appellees), 2022
•Listed, Thomson Reuters, “Stand-Out Lawyers,” 2023-2026
•Ranked 29th overall by Patexia amongst the Top 100 Best Performing IPR/AIA Trial Attorneys (representing Petitioners or Patent Owners), 2019
•Ranked 31st overall by Patexia amongst the Top 100 Best Performing IPR/AIA Trial Attorneys (representing Petitioners or Patent Owners), 2018
•Listed, Denver Business Journal, 'Forty Under 40,' 2013