Intellectual Property Litigation
Our track record in intellectual property litigation includes the following representative engagements:
- Successfully represented a Massachusetts biotechnology company in “bet the company” multi-forum lawsuits against a competitor company and major university in which we vindicated at trial our client's rights to its valuable inventions.
- In a ground-breaking theft-of-idea case, won a complete victory following a two week trial for a national magazine publisher.
- Won summary judgment dismissal of claims seeking to extend the reach of contributory copyright infringement in the trade show industry.
- Protection of service mark rights held by a founder of one of the most famous groups in early rock ‘n roll.
- Brought a series of uniformly successful lawsuits in federal court for a national distributor of videotaped films in litigation against copyright infringing video pirates.
- Represented as local counsel the Motion Picture Association of America in connection with illegal downloading of movie content from the internet.
- Played an active leadership role as local counsel to a major Silicon Valley corporation in the nation's most important computer software copyright litigation of recent years, which was ultimately resolved by the United States Supreme Court in a precedent-setting decision favorable to our client.
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