Per Larsen

An attorney in Dickinson Wright’s Denver office, Per Larsen focuses on patent counseling and domestic and foreign patent prosecution in the electronic and computer arts. He works with technology companies to build and manage patent portfolios and supervises and mentors junior attorneys in their patent practice.

Per’s practice centers on prosecuting technically complex applications. He works closely with inventors and engineering teams to understand the underlying technology and to identify what is meaningfully different from prior art. Much of his work involves shaping arguments through the prosecution process and responding to office actions from patent examiners.

He also prepares claim charts, infringement and validity analyses, and patent clearance opinions.

Before becoming a patent attorney, Per spent more than a decade as a circuit design engineer. During that time, he developed and tested display panel architectures and image processing techniques for liquid crystal displays. He is a named inventor on eight U.S. patents.

Patent Prosecution and Portfolio Development

• Domestic and international patent preparation and prosecution
• Patent portfolio development, management, and strategic planning
• Standards-Essential Patents (SEPs) prosecution and essentiality analysis

Opinions and Counseling

• Patent infringement and validity analyses including claim charts and claim chart analysis
• Non-infringement and invalidity opinions
• Product clearance and freedom-to-operate counseling
• Technical analysis supporting product development and commercialization

Licensing and Transactions

• Patent licensing strategy and negotiations
• Patent portfolio acquisitions and transfers
• Intellectual property due diligence in corporate transactions

Pre-Litigation Matters

• Assessment of patent enforcement positions
• Pre-litigation analysis and strategy development

Technologies

• Control systems and communication systems
• Wireless telecommunications, including antenna design and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
• Satellite communications and networking technologies
• Computer processor architectures and software systems
• Integrated circuits, memory, and storage systems
• Optical systems and nanotechnology
• Digital display technology and image processing techniques

• Standards and Intellectual Property Rights 101, AIPLA-NIST Partnering in Standards, April 21, 2026 (Webinar)
• Patents and Standards: Practice, Policy, and Enforcement, Co-author of Chapter 8: Claiming Strategies, BNA Books, 2018
• RAND by the Bench, American Intellectual Property Law Association, 2014 Annual Meeting Session Materials