Faegre Drinker
Firm overview:
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath provides the full suite of patent services, including procurement, portfolio management, post-grant proceedings, patentability analysis and transaction advice. The firm crafts comprehensive global prosecution strategies for clients, based on the technology at stake. Examples include the firm’s work for Indiana University’s research institution, which the team has advised on its patent portfolio covering innovations in biochemistry/molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and more.
When the need to defend or enforce business-critical patents arises, Faegre Drinker fields teams of litigators to resolve disputes at trial or through alternative methods, such as arbitration and mediation. The team secured a notable victory for Comcast in a patent dispute with WhereverTV.
Team overview:
Jessica Van Dalen, in Indianapolis, prepares and prosecutes patent applications. She has particular experience in the vehicle industry, and has assisted clients with protecting all aspects of on-road and off-road vehicle components, technologies and designs.
Minneapolis partner Victor Jonas leverages his engineering background to work with clients on creating IP strategies. Jonas’s practice includes US and foreign patent preparation and prosecution, patent validity and infringement evaluations, technology licensing and development agreements, and litigation support.
Other notable members of the team include senior counsel Walter Linder, in Minneapolis, who brings his experience as former in-house counsel at 3M to advise on worldwide IP portfolio development.
Key matters:
- Securing a patent grant for Palantir Technologies
Faegre Drinker is the law firm associated by the United States Patent and Trademark Office with the patent grant for Systems and Methods for Generating an Enhanced Error Message to Palantir Technologies in February 2026.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Palantir is well-known for developing data integration and analytics platforms enabling government agencies, militaries, and corporations to combine and analyse data from multiple sources.
The patent abstract describes: “Systems and methods for generating an enhanced error message are provided. An example method includes: receiving one or more raw error messages. The one or more raw error messages include one or more stack traces. The method further includes matching at least one raw error message of the one or more raw error messages to one or more error rules from a plurality of error rules.”
- Strava v Garmin
Faegre Drinker’s Joel Sayres, along with of counsel from Keker, Van Nest & Peters, represented Strava in its lawsuit against Garmin, filed in September 2025.
Strava alleged that the wearable device maker had infringed its patented fitness software technology and breached an agreement dispute “clear limits”.
Shortly after the suit was filed, it was voluntarily dismissed.
Clients:
Artnature, Juki Corporation, Palantir Technologies, Strava, TDK Corporation
