Patrick C. Holvey is a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, in the Commercial Litigation Branch's Intellectual Property Section (https://www.justice.gov/civil/intellectual-property-section).  He joined the Department through the Honors Program after serving as a judicial law clerk to both Chief Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (2017-2018), and Judge Pauline Newman at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2015-2017).

Patrick is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, and holds a master’s degree in materials science and engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Notre Dame.  While in law school, he completed externships with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.

Patrick is a patent attorney and is currently a Trustee of the American Inns of Court Foundation and was selected as a Pegasus Scholar in 2018.  He also serves as the Membership Chair for the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court, the American Inns of Court’s (AIC) first intellectual property Inn, and is on the AIC's Pegasus Scholar Committee.  He has previously served as a member of the AIC’s Pegasus Scholar Placement Committee and the Program Awards Committee, as well as serving on the Membership Board of the American Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law Section.  He is the 2018 recipient of the Honorable Nancy F. Atlas Intellectual Property American Inn of Court and the University of Houston Law Center IPIL Sponsored Scholarship Grant for Judicial Clerks.