Work Experience
Partner, Pierce Atwood LLP
Partner, Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson
Associate, Piper & Marbury
Civil litigation (patent, other IP, products liability defense, complex civil litigation)
Adjunct professor, U. Maine School of Law
Patent Law
Representative Clients (of public record)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.; GE Healthcare Biosciences AB; Fairchild Semiconductor Corp.; Agilent Technologies, Inc.; Vans, Inc.; ECCO USA, Inc.; Aerocrine AB; Gyros AB; Rolling Optics AB; Alifax Holding SpA; Cohesive Technologies, Inc.; Pharmacia Biotech AB; Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.; Angela Adams Designs LLC; Stratagene Inc.
Bar Admissions
Maine and Massachusetts (active); Maryland, Virginia, DC (inactive)
U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Fourth, Fifth and Federal Circuits; U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia (Eastern and Western), Maryland, DC, Colorado
Publications, Presentations and Lectures
“Extraterritoriality and the Active Inducement of Infringement,” 19 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 204 (2020). [Link here]
“Real Control Over Litigation: Practical Steps To Leverage Your Power as a Client in Today’s Market,” with Gustaf Lagercrantz, International In-house Counsel Journal (Nordic Edition 2012,1).
“Proving Infringement,” in Grossman and Hoffman, eds., Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook (BNA Books with the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, 3d Ed. 2010).
“Settlement of Patent Disputes,” with Margaret M. O’Keefe, in Grossman and Hoffman, eds., Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook (BNA Books with the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law, 3d Ed. 2010).
“Biotech Patents: the U.S. Perspective,” lectures at Stockholm University, Master of European Intellectual Property Law, November 2011, 2012, 2013.
“Economic Damages,” in Black and Lee, eds., Expert Evidence: A Practitioner’s Guide to Law, Science and the FJC Manual (West Group, 1997).
“Revisiting the Missing Witness Inference,” 44 Md. L. Rev. 137 (1985).
“Illustrating the Inventor’s Story,” lecture at ABA Annual Meeting, IP Section (August 1996).
“The Magical Closing Argument,” lecture at ABA IP Section Mid-year Conference (February 1996).
Education
Harvard College, AB cum laude, economics
University of Gothenburg, non-degree
Harvard Law School, JD cum laude
Helping businesses avoid or manage IP disputes. 