Glenn K. Beaton is a partner in the Denver office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is Co-Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group and a registered patent attorney whose practice focuses on counseling and litigation involving patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He has been practicing law for over 25 years, and before that was an engineer for The Boeing Company.

Mr. Beaton has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America each of the past fourteen years. He has been ranked in Tier 1 for intellectual property lawyers by Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers each year since it began such rankings (and is currently one of only three IP lawyers in Colorado ranked in Tier 1) and is listed in the Chambers Global international edition of that publication as well. Law & Politics named him a Colorado Superlawyer for each of the last three years. He taught intellectual property for a number of years as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law and as an Instructor at the University of Denver College of Law.

Mr. Beaton has led a number of large patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets cases. Recent representative work includes:

• Leading the jury trial of a complex patent infringement and breach of license agreement case involving a medical diagnostic patent. The jury returned a verdict for a 27.5% royalty for his client and made a finding that the defendant's infringement was willful. The Court doubled the infringement verdict to account for the defendant's willfulness and also awarded his client over a million dollars in attorney fees. He then successfully defended the appeal of the judgment to the Federal Circuit.
  
• Obtaining summary judgment invalidating two drug patents in a suit in the District of Minnesota, thereby completely disposing of the case before trial. He then successfully defended the appeal to the Federal Circuit.
  
• Obtaining dismissal of his two clients in a patent infringement case in the Southern District of Florida, for lack of personal jurisdiction and lack of case or controversy.
  
• Serving as Lead Counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case of Labcorp v. Metabolite Laboratories, where his team successfully defeated the other side's position that a method of detecting vitamin deficiencies was an unpatentable "law of nature."
  
• Representing one of the largest gaming companies in the world in complex patent infringement litigation involving ten patents as well as breach of contract and trade secret claims. The case is now settled, but Mr. Beaton went on to represent the client in several other patent infringement actions in the District of Nevada and the Central District of California.
  
• Representing Vail Resorts for over 20 years in a variety of trademark and domain name disputes, including an argument to the Tenth Circuit in a key trademark case in 2006.
  
• Representing an affiliate of the University of Colorado in a program to commercialize several groundbreaking medical patents.
  
• Representing the University of Colorado in a large theft of invention case, which ultimately produced a $58 million judgment in favor of his client – a result that survived two appeals all the way to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Beaton has handled numerous Patent Office proceedings, including prosecuting over 200 patent applications to issuance along with reexamination, reissuance and interference proceedings. He has led the appeal in five patent cases to the Federal Circuit, and has assisted with many others.

In addition to his work with clients, Mr. Beaton was appointed a Special Master in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado to oversee confidential discovery in a very large copyright infringement and theft of trade secrets case, and frequently has been retained as a testifying or consulting expert witness in patent and trademark infringement cases and other intellectual property cases.

Mr. Beaton received his J.D. in 1982 from the University of Denver, where he graduated Order of St. Ives and served as a member of the Denver University Law Review. He received a B.S. in Engineering in 1977 from the University of Colorado.

An avid mountaineer, Mr. Beaton has summited the Matterhorn and the Eiger.