Philip C. Swain
Foley Hoag LLP
Philip Swain is a partner at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an experienced patent litigator, specializing in patent litigation, primarily for clients in advanced technology applications, including telecommunications, computer technology and medical devices. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, where he teaches patent litigation. Phil received his law degree from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1984, and his undergraduate degree from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts in mechanical engineering in 1981. After graduating from law school, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Giles S. Rich, Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He currently serves as the Chair of the Amicus Committee of the American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section, and is a former Council Member of the Section. He is also the Immediate Past Chair of the AIPPI-US Division of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the former President of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the Federal Circuit Historical Society.
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