Technology companies turn to Bethany Salpietra for strategic intellectual property counsel and advocacy in high-stakes patent disputes, particularly where litigation risk, business objectives, and innovation strategy intersect. She represents clients in federal district courts across the country, with a focus on the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.
Bethany is known for shaping disputes at the outset. She helps clients navigate complex patent litigation with strategies that integrate legal precision, procedural leverage, and business judgment, enabling companies to assess risk early and seize strategic advantage. She is particularly effective in leveraging venue, personal jurisdiction, and other procedural tools to influence where and how cases are litigated, often altering the trajectory of a dispute before it reaches the merits. This approach is especially valuable for companies facing suit in unfamiliar or strategically disadvantageous forums, including foreign companies navigating U.S. patent litigation exposure. Clients value her ability to cut through complexity, anticipate challenges, and execute strategies aligned with broader commercial and operational objectives.
On the merits, Bethany handles complex patent disputes involving claim construction, discovery strategy, and expert challenges across a broad range of technologies, including networking and cloud infrastructure, telecommunications systems, software platforms, and medical and consumer devices. Her experience extends across the full range of patent dispute forums, including appellate proceedings before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission, and inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Bethany's approach is informed by her in-house experience during a 2024 secondment with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, where she managed global patent disputes and intellectual property strategy. This perspective enables her to deliver advice that is not only legally sound, but practical, business-focused, and calibrated to the operational realities her clients face. She regularly advises clients on issues that sit at the intersection of intellectual property, product development, commercialization, and enterprise risk, and is particularly effective at helping companies proactively assess litigation exposure and align IP strategy with broader business objectives.
In addition to her litigation practice, Bethany advises clients on strategic intellectual property and technology matters across the innovation lifecycle. She has experience counseling clients on patent portfolio development and monetization, technology licensing and commercialization, invention development, dispute readiness, and innovation-focused IP strategy. Clients value her ability to translate technical and legal complexity into practical guidance that supports business growth, strategic decision-making, and the development and protection of intellectual property as a core business function.
Bethany is active in the Dallas legal and technology communities, including the Dallas Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section and STEM-focused initiatives in partnership with Tech Titans. Outside of her practice, she enjoys puzzles, mahjong, learning Japanese, and building Lego creations with her children.
