Dustin F Guzior

Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

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—and since the beginning of 2022, Dustin has had major trial court wins in five different matters.  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.  That work 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 plus settlement for a client before jury trial in a patent case, a complete defense win in a multi-billion euro ICC arbitration in Germany, and a major judgment from the Delaware Court of Chancery, affirmed by the en banc Delaware Supreme Court, among other victories.  Dustin is one of the lawyers who helped co-found the University Technology Licensing Program, a patent pool that has 15 members who are major U.S. research universities, including Columbia, Caltech, Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.  Dustin also co-led the trial win in domestic arbitration for BlackBerry in a patent license dispute in which Qualcomm was ordered to pay BlackBerry nearly $1 billion. Mr. Guzior regularly advises and defends companies, predominantly in biotech, in trade secret cases.  Dustin has undergraduate degrees in Physics and Biological Chemistry from the University of Chicago, providing broad familiarity with the technology issues in many of his cases.