Seth W. Lloyd

Seth Lloyd is an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group in the Washington, D.C. office.

Mr. Lloyd has briefed and argued appeals in federal courts of appeals and drafted certiorari petitions and amicus and merits briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition to his nationwide practice, he has significant experience in patent appeals before the Federal Circuit, where he has briefed and argued multiple appeals, including successfully arguing for reversal of three Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions in a consolidated appeal for a computer memory designer. Mr. Lloyd has also argued in the Ninth Circuit.

Before joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Lloyd worked as a law clerk for Judge Richard G. Taranto of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, working in Stanford’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic on two successful certiorari petitions and one successful merits case. Mr. Lloyd also earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he received the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, published ten peer-reviewed articles, and was named inventor on five U.S. patents.