Roderick G. Dorman

Roderick G. Dorman is the head of HBD’s Patent and Technology department, and his practice concentrates on technology litigation. Mr. Dorman has extensive patent trial and appellate experience, having been lead counsel in over one hundred and fifty patent cases in the federal district courts and sixteen appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. While he has handled litigation matters in all major technical disciplines, his most recent federal district court cases have involved computer, electronic display, peer-to-peer file sharing software, hard disk drive circuitry, and digital media transmission technology over the internet.

Mr. Dorman is active in various Bar activities, particularly the Los Angeles County Bar Association. For a decade Mr. Dorman was a member of the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and served as its Chair in 2004-2005.

Prior to joining Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP, Mr. Dorman was a partner at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he co-chaired the firm’s worldwide Patent and Technology Practice Group.

Prior to joining O’Melveny & Myers, Mr. Dorman practiced for many years as an attorney at the patent firm of Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP. Prior to that time, he was the principal of a commercial litigation boutique firm, a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and an in-house trial attorney with Conoco, Inc.

Mr. Dorman currently represents a number of prominent companies and inventors in connection with  patent, copyright, and trademark disputes including Avery Dennison Corporation, Move (formerly Homestore), Ron Popeil, and Walker Digital Inc (originator of Priceline.com).

Publications

• Nobody to Blame But Yourself
• “Copyright and Piracy—Through the Copyright Lens,” The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, November 18, 2004
• “The Case for Compensation: Why Compensatory Components Are Required for Effective Antitrust Enforcement,” Vol. 68, No. 6 Georgetown Law Journal, August 1980

News

• Haiti Relief
• The Art of Giving Back

Professional Affiliations

• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Chair of the Litigation Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association, 2004-05
• American Bar Association