Brian’s practice focuses on advising clients in all aspects of intellectual property, including the creation, protection, ownership, and licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He also advises clients on intellectual property issues in corporate transactions.
He has advised clients and prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the medical device, mechanical, electrical, and software areas. On the medical side, he has advised clients on inventions related to artificial bone materials, artificial ophthalmological lenses, blood processing systems, cardiac valves and implantation systems, defibrillators (ventricle and atrial), medical diagnostic systems and methods, medical/surgical instruments, portable insulin pumps, vascular and neurological imaging technologies, vascular stents, verteplasty, vertebral and spinal devices and systems, wound treatment devices and methods of treatment, artificial neural networks, and DNA sequencing systems.
On the mechanical, electrical and software side, Brian’s experience extends to technologies involving HVAC systems; energy systems (e.g., fuel cells, combined cycle power production); automotive brake, exhaust, and suspension systems and components; computer networks; data processing; ink-jet printers; Internet retail software; lasers and optics; manufacturing methods; machine learning; retail self-checkout systems; telecommunications; vending systems; wireless transaction systems; and financial securities.
Brian advises clients on infringement and validity issues of patents. He has also drafted and negotiated technology development agreements, technology/material supply and transfer agreements, and intellectual property licenses.
Before joining the firm in 2001, Brian was an attorney at an intellectual property boutique law firm in New York City, where he concentrated his practice in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications and opinion work in the electrical, computer, and mechanical arts.
Brian is also an inventor, and in 1999, received a patent on a novel bumper-bellows assembly for automotive suspension systems.
Brian’s practice focuses on advising clients in all aspects of intellectual property, including the creation, protection, ownership, and licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He also advises clients on intellectual property issues in corporate transactions.
He has advised clients and prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the medical device, mechanical, electrical, and software areas. On the medical side, he has advised clients on inventions related to artificial bone materials, artificial ophthalmological lenses, blood processing systems, cardiac valves and implantation systems, defibrillators (ventricle and atrial), medical diagnostic systems and methods, medical/surgical instruments, portable insulin pumps, vascular and neurological imaging technologies, vascular stents, verteplasty, vertebral and spinal devices and systems, wound treatment devices and methods of treatment, artificial neural networks, and DNA sequencing systems.
On the mechanical, electrical and software side, Brian’s experience extends to technologies involving HVAC systems; energy systems (e.g., fuel cells, combined cycle power production); automotive brake, exhaust, and suspension systems and components; computer networks; data processing; ink-jet printers; Internet retail software; lasers and optics; manufacturing methods; machine learning; retail self-checkout systems; telecommunications; vending systems; wireless transaction systems; and financial securities.
Brian advises clients on infringement and validity issues of patents. He has also drafted and negotiated technology development agreements, technology/material supply and transfer agreements, and intellectual property licenses.
Before joining the firm in 2001, Brian was an attorney at an intellectual property boutique law firm in New York City, where he concentrated his practice in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications and opinion work in the electrical, computer, and mechanical arts.
Brian is also an inventor, and in 1999, received a patent on a novel bumper-bellows assembly for automotive suspension systems.
Publications
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Co-author,
Swimming Upstream: Developing and Commercializing Diabetes Products in a Patent Protected World, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology ()
Speaking Engagements
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Speaker,
Software Patents in the U.S. in view of CLS Bank v. Alice Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2013) – A Guide for the Startup Company,
IATI-BioMed Israel 2013 Conference,
Israel Liaison Office
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Speaker,
Health Care Technological Innovation - From Idea to Commercialization,
Intellectual Capital Management,
The Health Care Technological Innovation Program: From Idea to Commercialization, Israel Liaison Office
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Speaker,
NEIBC Biomed Israel Reception,
New England & Israel Life Sciences Connection, Israel Liaison Office
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Speaker,
Opening Remarks,
AMCHAM Annual Awards Dinner,
US Ambassador to Israel Residence, Herzelia, Israel Liaison Office
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Speaker,
NEIBC Biomed Israel Reception,
New England & Israel Life Sciences Connection
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Speaker,
Maximize Your Product Pipeline Through Partnerships ,
New York Biotechnology Association, New York, NY
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