H. Dickson Burton

Dickson is the Managing Shareholder of the Firm. In his practice he is a trial lawyer who focuses on helping clients strategize and resolve patent, trademark, trade secret and other business disputes, including by taking cases to trial. He is known by his clients and in courts across the country as a creative, trusted and highly successful advocate, with a remarkable streak of major litigations wins, including rare preliminary injunctions and seizure orders in hotly-contested patent infringement and trade secret cases. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah College of Law teaching patent litigation. Dickson is also frequently called upon to mediate or arbitrate difficult patent and other intellectual property disputes, with mediation training and certification from both Harvard Law School and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).

Dickson has been honored for many years in Best Lawyers, Chambers USA and SuperLawyers, IP Stars and others, including as one of the Top 25 of all lawyers in Salt Lake City and Top 100 in the Mountain States, and as Intellectual Property Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” for 2015 in Salt Lake City.  Dickson was recently elected by Utah attorneys to be President of the Utah State Bar.