About Ben
Ben Holt combines technical training and legal education in a practice centered on intellectual property and technology law. He earned a pair of engineering bachelor’s degrees from the University of Utah in 2003, taking both electrical engineering and computer engineering. He returned to the same campus for graduate study and completed an MBA in marketing and finance in 2004, and a J.D. from the S.J. Quinney College of Law that same year, where his coursework emphasized intellectual property.
Early in his legal trajectory he served as an extern to the Utah Supreme Court in 2007. That experience sits alongside a string of volunteer leadership roles in professional groups. He has held successive positions in the Utah State Bar Cyberlaw Section, serving as secretary from 2009 to 2010, vice chair from 2010 to 2011, chair from 2011 to 2012, and continuing on the steering committee from 2009 into the present. He also held a short-term leadership role in the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Division, acting as a sub-committee chair in 2012. Outside the bar, he participated in the Utah Ruby Users Group from 2009 through 2011, a sign of cross-over interest in software communities.
Holt’s background ties closely to technical subject matter. Two undergraduate engineering degrees and an MBA give him fluency in technical concepts and commercial considerations. He supplements that foundation with professional credentials: he holds the CIPP/US certification through the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a registered patent lawyer with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is admitted to practice in Utah and California, and he is authorized to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Over years of practice he has been involved in matters that blend patent, privacy, and regulatory issues, often advising clients whose work touches software, electronics, and data. He has moved between technical and legal problem solving, translating engineering issues into legal strategies and vice versa. Colleagues describe his approach as methodical: he breaks complex problems into discrete issues and addresses each one on its merits.
Holt currently practices at K2T3 PLLC, where he handles intellectual property, privacy, and technology-related legal work. His practice centers on patent prosecution and counseling on privacy law and technology transactions.
