Hannah L. Bedard is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of the firm's Litigation Department, and her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation.
Hannah has litigated a variety of intellectual property matters, including patent, copyright, trade secret, and Lanham Act cases, as well as other complex civil litigation matters, including products liability, contract, and False Claims Act cases. Hannah has experience in all stages of litigation and has represented clients in motions for injunctive relief, summary judgment, evidentiary disputes, and post-trial relief. She has also been a member of numerous appellate teams.
Hannah's recent representations include serving on the trial team that represented Verizon in Headwater Research LLC v. Verizon Communications Inc. in the Eastern District of Texas, where, after a jury returned a $175 million verdict against Verizon, the team tried Verizon's equitable defenses to the bench and secured a ruling that the asserted patents were unenforceable against Verizon under the doctrine of implied waiver—resulting in final judgment in Verizon's favor as the prevailing party and wiping out the verdict in its entirety. She was also part of the teams that secured early dismissals of patent infringement suits against a financial technology company in the District of Utah and a global enterprise technology company in the Southern District of Texas, in each case on the ground that the asserted claims were ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Hannah’s notable wins earned her being recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers (2026).
She also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing veterans. Recently, she secured more than forty years of retroactive disability benefits for a veteran who participated in the Army's classified chemical-agent testing program at Edgewood Arsenal in the 1960s and, bound by a military secrecy oath, could not seek benefits until the government released participants from their oaths decades later. Relying on the Federal Circuit's en banc decision in Taylor v. McDonough, she established that the veteran was entitled to an effective date as of his discharge from service.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Hannah served as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger, III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She previously practiced with Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Wilkinson Stekloff LLP in Washington, D.C.
Hannah graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she received her Juris Doctor. She served as an executive editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and a teaching assistant in intellectual property law courses. She received her Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011.
Hannah is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and before the Second Circuit, Seventh Circuit, D.C. Circuit, Federal Circuit, and District Court for the District of Columbia.
Capabilities
- Intellectual Property
- Appellate and Constitutional Law
- Consumer Products and Retail
- Litigation
- Technology Litigation
Credentials
Education:
- University of Pennsylvania - 2016 Juris Doctor
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2011 Bachelor of Science
Admissions:
- District of Columbia Bar
- Virginia Bar
Clerkships:
- US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, Hon. Raymond C. Clevenger, III, 2017