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John N. Anastasi ......................................3

Larissa S. Bifano .......................................3

Fangli Chen ............................................... 4

Sarah Chapin Columbia ....................... 4

David J. Dykeman .................................. 4

Jennifer B. Furey .................................... 4

Nicole E. Gage ..........................................5

Kurt L. Glitzenstein .................................5

Kimberly B. Herman ...............................6

Joseph M. Maraia .....................................6

Brian L. Michaelis .....................................6

Edward J. Naughton ..............................7

Regina Sam Penti ....................................7

Lisa J. Pirozzolo .......................................8

Kathleen M. Porter ..................................8

Jane E. Remillard .....................................9

Charles H. Sanders .................................9

Steven G. Saunders ..............................10

Lisa M. Tittemore ...................................10

Brian C. Trinque ....................................... 11

Mark A. Wright ........................................ 11

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Achievements and professional activitiesHonoree, “Top Women of Law,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2018); honoree, “BTI Client Service All-Stars,” BTI Consulting Group (2020); honoree, “Top 50 Wom-en,” PTAB Bar Association (2019)

As a child, Larissa S. Bifano was fasci-nated by her father’s recounting of his day at the office practicing law. And as the granddaughter of an engineer who built one of the shells for the atomic bomb, science was in her blood. While studying physics in college, she realized she could combine her interests through a career in patent law.

Today, Bifano is a partner at DLA Piper, where she chairs the patent prosecution team across all U.S. offices. In her own practice, she manages patent portfolios and provides strategic patent advice for compa-nies such as Capital One, Dropbox, CBRE, Mindbody, Nanotronics and STATS, helping inventors get protection for some of the most cutting-edge new technology.

Bifano’s most recent accomplishments include advising IoT and firmware cyber-security developer ReFirm Labs when Mic-rosoft acquired the company to bolster its firmware analysis and security capabilities across devices.

She and a team of DLA Piper attorneys also advised South Korea-based private equity firm Centroid Investment Partners in its $1.7 billion acquisition of TaylorMade Golf Co., a manufacturer of golf equipment and accessories, from New York-based KPS Capital Partners.

Meanwhile, Bifano counseled NuVasive in its acquisition of Simplify Medical, a

privately held developer of spinal disc tech-nology, in an all-cash transaction with an upfront payment of $150 million and with potential milestone payments related to FDA approvals and revenue achievement.

Additional engagements include advising a number of tech companies on patent of-fensive and defensive strategy, counseling startups on patent strategy, prosecuting patents for significant semiconductor and telecom companies, and preparing and prosecuting inter partes review proceedings regarding patent validity.

Beyond counseling clients, Bifano is the co-author of a handbook on protecting ar-tificial intelligence technology through pat-ents.

Partner, DLA Piper Boston

LARISSA S. BIFANO

Achievements and professional activitiesMember, Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), and organization committee member, 41st worldwide congress; member, American Intellectual Property Law Association; board of directors, Andover Little League; director, “Learn to Skate Program,” Andover Youth Hockey Association; founder and coach, Noreasters Travel Baseball Program

Lando & Anastasi partner and co-founder John N. Anastasi has decades of experience counseling and representing multi-national corporations, small to mid-sized companies, early-stage and venture-backed companies, and entrepreneurs and investors. In that role, he helps clients identify, protect and leverage their intellectual property assets while utilizing his expansive network of industry professionals to enable clients to achieve their business goals.

Anastasi has worked with clients across a broad range of technologies, including op-tical devices and systems; wireless devices and systems; automated test equipment; imaging devices; semiconductor circuits and fabrication; analog circuits and sys-tems; microwave and RF devices, systems and antennas; consumer products; medical devices and software.

In addition to writing and successfully prosecuting hundreds of patent applica-tions, he has been involved in numerous M&A transactions, due diligence investi-gations, valuations of IP portfolios, patent-ability and freedom-to-operate studies and opinions, and post-grant and opposition proceedings.

Meanwhile he has secured and enforced worldwide patent and trademark portfolios and licensed clients’ intellectual property and technology rights.

Anastasi’s representative engagements include assuming the prosecution of the

patent portfolio of a major consumer prod-ucts manufacturer. In addition, he counseled the client on worldwide patent protection and helped it cut costs while implementing a worldwide strategic plan.

While working with another client, Anas-tasi developed and secured the company’s patent position around pioneering technolo-gy, leading to the client’s acquisition by the dominant player in the industry. Afterward, he continued to work with the acquiring company to enforce its patent position and prevent competitors from encroaching on its market share while securing multimil-lion-dollar damages awards for patent in-fringement.

Meanwhile, Anastasi developed the IP portfolio for the key product line of a multi-national Fortune 500 company, lead-ing to a merger with a major competitor.

Partner, Lando & Anastasi Boston

JOHN N. ANASTASI

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JENNIFER B. FUREYDAVID J. DYKEMAN

Achievements and professional activitiesCo-chair, litigation group; fellow, Litigation Counsel of America; board of trustees member and immediate past president, Women’s Bar Foundation; member, Intellec-tual Property Institute; mentor, 2020 Women’s Leadership Initiative, Women’s Bar Association; guest lecturer, fashion law, Harvard Law School

Achievements and professional activitiesCo-chair, global life sciences and medical technology group; founding co-chair, Medical Devices Committee, American Bar Association; “Life Science Star,” LMG Life Sciences (2014-2020); recipient, “Lawyers Community of Excellence Award,” Combined Jewish Philanthropies (2022); finalist, “Mentor of the Year,” Massachu-setts Lawyers Weekly (2011); recipient, “Rx for Excellence Award,” Massachusetts Medical Law Report (2009); board member, Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC)

David J. Dykeman of Boston’s Greenberg Traurig is a registered patent attorney with nearly a quarter century of experience pro-viding strategic patent portfolio develop-ment and intellectual property advice for major research institutions, multi-national corporations and startup companies, with particular experience in IP issues related to life sciences, medical devices, robotics, ma-terials and information technology.

A leader in the IP bar, Dykeman served a seven-year stint as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Medical Devices Commit-tee, which he co-founded.

Meanwhile, his reputation has made him a sought-after author with more than 55 articles under his belt, and an equally sought-after speaker, having appeared at more than 50 conferences on IP law.

In terms of his own practice, Dykeman’s representative engagements include his counseling of Third Pole Therapeutics, a Waltham company that develops transfor-mative cardio-pulmonary therapies. In that capacity, Dykeman has served as architect of its patent portfolio while helping shep-herd it through major collaboration deals that have brought its breathing devices to market domestically and worldwide.

Dykeman has also provided counseling to medical device company IlluminOss since its founding in 2007. He helped the startup develop a portfolio of more than 100 pat-ents, which played a key role in the compa-ny’s raising of $75 million in venture funding and ultimate acquisition by a private equity firm, while making its cutting-edge tech-niques for fixing broken bones available in the U.S. and Europe.

Alongside his busy practice, Dykeman has taken on a leadership role at his firm, having co-chaired its global life sciences and medical technology practice for nearly a decade while co-managing Greenberg’s Boston office.

Goulston & Storrs partner Jennifer B. Furey is an intellectual property litigator with more than 20 years’ experience suc-cessfully handling high-stakes cases involv-ing patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, false advertising and copyrights.

Among Furey’s achievements in this ca-pacity is her leadership of a three-year, high-profile litigation for client America’s Test Kitchen (ATK), which built a food-indus-try empire around its popular magazines, cookbooks, public TV and radio shows, on-line cooking schools and live shows.

In 2016, ATK sued limited partner Chris-topher Kimball after he started planning a company that relied on ATK media partners, employees, underwriters and, allegedly, a new spin on ATK’s recipes for success. ATK alleged breach of fiduciary duty, breach of employment agreements, misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair trade practices in a case that raised novel issues about the extent of a limited partner’s fiduciary duties to fellow partners when also assuming an executive role in the business.

Furey helped shepherd the litigation to a settlement two months before a scheduled trial. The agreement resulted in Kimball be-

ing removed as a limited ATK partner while restricting his new company in a manner that would allow both entities to coexist in the marketplace.

Meanwhile, Furey successfully defended Nike in a trademark infringement action re-lating to the sale of its Kobe Bryant apparel. A company called Legends Are Forever, Inc., sued Nike over alleged use of its mark, but a federal judge in New York found that there was no likelihood of customer confusion be-tween t-shirts in Nike’s basketball apparel line and the plaintiff’s baseball-themed products.

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Director, Goulston & Storrs Boston

SARAH CHAPIN COLUMBIAFANGLI CHEN

Achievements and professional activitiesVice chair, life sciences patent practice; speaker, Life Sciences Insights Conference, BIO OP Counsels Committee Conference, IP Summit Conference and Chinese-Amer-ican BioMedical Association Annual Conference; honoree, “Patent Strategy Attor-ney of the Year,” LMG Life Sciences; volunteer, Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare, Cuddle My Kids and Science Club for Girls

Achievements and professional activitiesHonoree, New England “General Patent Litigator of the Year,” LMG Life Sciences (2019); fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; former head, global IP practice, McDermott, Will & Emery; faculty member, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

Boston attorney Fangli Chen, a partner in Proskauer’s litigation department and vice chair of its life sciences patent prac-tice, represents all types of companies in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, bringing scientific expertise and a strong business sense to her work.

Chen effectively identifies and transforms technological developments into valuable intellectual property assets for her clients and specializes in the strategic develop-ment of complex IP portfolios for companies that align with their business goals.

Additional areas of focus in Chen’s practice include post-grant review be-fore the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, oppositions, pre-litigation and litigation strategy, due diligence investigations, freedom-to-operate, non-infringement and invalidity analysis, licensing and other IP matters in connection with commercial transactions.

Meanwhile, Chen handles a variety of technology areas, including biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, immunotherapy, enzyme replacement therapy, messenger RNA therapy, gene therapy, vaccines, bio-informatics, and small molecule compound drugs.

Further areas of experience for Chen include handling inter partes review in-

terference and various foreign opposition proceedings, advising clients on technology and material transfer matters and assisting investors in assessing technology and IP assets and risks for potential investment targets.

Among her many specific accomplish-ments, Chen represented Sanofi Pasteur and SK Chemicals in a successful 2018 chal-lenge to the patentability of a Pfizer pneu-mococcal vaccine patent in an inter partes proceeding before the Patent Trial and Ap-peal Board, for which Sanofi and SK were designing a competing product. The PTAB found all 45 of Pfizer’s claims unpatentable as obvious in light of prior art.

Sarah Chapin Columbia draws on three decades of experience delivering compre-hensive IP services to a variety of clients, ranging from early-stage companies to multi-national organizations, while also leading McDermott, Will & Emery’s Bos-ton-based patent litigation practice.

Columbia’s own practice focuses on over-all intellectual property strategy and posi-tioning, including litigation avoidance.

She also provides strategic guidance in complex transactions in which intellectual property assets are critical to a successful deal. In this capacity, she provides services across several industries, including pharma/biotech, internet, semiconductor, hardware and software, medical device and manufac-turing companies.

Over the course of her career, Columbia has distinguished herself in the courtroom, having been lead counsel in more than a dozen patent infringement and invalidity trials across several jurisdictions.

Some of her specific successes include serving as lead counsel for biotech company Amgen in a patent infringement action and jury trial involving breakthrough biologic therapy for treatment of high LDL choles-terol.

She also served as lead counsel for Black-Berry in infringement litigation and a jury trial involving smartphone signaling, and

she successfully defended workspace soft-ware giant Citrix in a case claiming that its Go-to-Meeting and Go-to-Webinar products infringed on the patents of a rival company.

Most recently, Columbia led the success-ful defense of Next Caller, a developer of validation and fraud detection technology, in infringement and trade secret claims brought by security company TRUSTID.

Meanwhile, Columbia’s favorable win rate in bet-the-company litigation has re-sulted in her being one of the few patent lawyers named a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Her success has also prompted multiple global brand-name companies to call on her to replace existing counsel when a case appears that it will go to trial.

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Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery Boston


KURT L. GLITZENSTEINNICOLE E. GAGE

Achievements and professional activitiesFormer member, Mediation, Internet and Emerging Issues Committees, International Trademark Association (INTA); deposition and motions practice training instructor, National Institute for Trial Advocacy; member, Boston Bar Association IP Committee; former co-chair, BBA IT and Internet Committee and IP Basics Committee; co-chair, BBA IP Year-In-Review; co-chair, Women’s Breakfast Committee, City Year Boston; youth soccer/futsal coach

Achievements and professional activitiesLeader, litigation practice group; member, Managing Committee; “Leading Patent

Professional,” IAM Patent 1000 (2020-2021); “Client Service All-Star,” BTI Consult-

ing Group (2020); “IP Litigator of the Year,” Porsche AG (2011)

Nicole E. Gage is a 20-year intellectual property law veteran with a focus on trade-mark and copyright law, both as a counselor and as a litigator.

Those who have worked with Gage de-scribe her as creative, detail oriented and practical, with an innate ability to spot and resolve potential problems before they arise.

Her expertise in her field has made her a sought-after lecturer, guest speaking on IP law at area law schools while participating on committees and speaking on IP issues for the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education and INTA.

In terms of her practice, Gage is an ex-perienced litigator, having handled cases in more than a dozen U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She has also litigated cases in several for-eign jurisdictions.

Some of Gage’s representative cases in-clude serving as lead counsel for SimpliS-afe, a Massachusetts company that sells do-it-yourself home security products, in a trademark infringement claim against Cali-fornia software company ArcSoft, which re-leased a video camera called “Simplicam.”

The case settled after Gage successfully defended a summary judgment motion.

She also secured a favorable judgment for defendant Fifield, Inc., in Texas state court after it was sued under the Texas trade libel statute.

At the same time, Gage handles world-wide brand protection strategy and en-forcement for one of the world’s leading agile-based training and certification com-panies — a role that includes strategic counseling, portfolio management, prose-cution, maintenance, licensing and enforce-ment in the U.S. and abroad.

As leader of Fish & Richardson’s litigation practice group, Boston attorney Kurt L. Glit-zenstein oversees all aspects of the nation’s busiest IP litigation practice, which includes 250 trial lawyers in 14 offices across the globe.

In his role, Glitzenstein has developed a reputation as an innovator through pioneer-ing alternative fee arrangements at the firm, a cornerstone of his re-engineering of Fish’s litigation business structure to provide bet-ter value, efficiency and service for clients.

With AFAs, clients pay for services in ways beyond traditional hourly billing, so as to represent the value delivered as opposed to simply time spent. Under Glitzenstein’s guidance, AFAs represent more than a third of the firm’s litigation business.

Meanwhile, beyond his firm leadership responsibilities, Glitzenstein maintains a robust IP litigation practice of his own that includes a blistering schedule of high-pro-file patent trials.

Among his recent accomplishments, Glitzenstein led the successful defense of Guangzhou Rebenet Catering Equipment Manufacturing and two other companies in international litigation brought by several other companies alleging that Glitzenstein’s clients misappropriated trade secrets relat-ed to commercial food service equipment. The complainants sought an order from the

International Trade Commission barring the importation of Rebenet’s products into the U.S., but the aggressive defense strategy of Glitzenstein and his team resulted in a favorable and rare ITC finding of “no injury” to a domestic industry.

He also recently handled a case brought by his client Aspen Aerogels, an energy technology company providing innovative thermal management solutions to the $3.2 million energy insulation market. His client alleged that two overseas competitors in-fringed on its patents for aerogel composite insulation blankets. Glitzenstein co-led the team that secured a Federal Circuit decision upholding the validity of its patents and blocking the importation of the competitors’ products into the U.S. market.

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Achievements and professional activitiesChair, national intellectual property group; intellectual property counsel, Boston Lyr-ic Opera; member, American Intellectual Property Law Association; member, Boston Patent Association; member, Federal Circuit Bar Association; member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; member, ITechLaw Association

Brian L. Michaelis has more than 30 years of experience deploying a wide range of IP protection mechanisms, including trade-marks, patents, copyright, trade secrets and contracts, to meet clients’ diverse ob-jectives.

Michaelis’ clients range from early stage emerging technology companies to global innovators. He represents domestic and in-ternational clients in business transactions involving intellectual property, including technology transfer and development agree-ment negotiation and drafting, co-existence agreements and trademark licensing, tech-nology spin-offs, private placements, acqui-sitions, dispositions and joint ventures.

Most recently, Michaelis and his team have been working with a global automo-tive company on the identification of pro-tectable intellectual property and in the preparation and filing of patent applications in the areas of autonomous vehicle technol-ogies and robotics. These technologies are transforming and will continue to transform the automotive, transportation, and Mobili-ty-as-a-Service (MaaS) industries.

Michaelis has also recently been involved in patent litigation in federal court in Texas involving oil services technologies vital to the capitalization of oil and gas reserves

worldwide. The case involves 12 patents — seven asserted by his client, Enventure, a joint venture of Shell and Halliburton, and five asserted in counterclaims by the oppos-ing party.

Meanwhile, Michaelis has substantial experience litigating trademark disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board and patent disputes before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is a registered U.S patent attorney with nearly a decade of in-house engineering experience in man-ufacturing and research and development.

Michaelis has also testified as an expert on patent issues and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Partner, Seyfarth Shaw Boston

BRIAN L. MICHAELIS

Achievements and professional activitiesLeader, intellectual property, technology and media and entertainment groups; guest speaker, Northeastern University; member, International Masters of Gaming Law; member, International Trademark Association, Computer Law Association, Licensing Executives Society (U.S. and Canada) and American Intellectual Property Law Asso-ciation; board member, Needham Steps Up

Achievements and professional activitiesCo-chair, intellectual property group; member, Executive Committee and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee; member, board of trustees, Lasell College; president, S|A Maraia Charities

JOSEPH M. MARAIAKIMBERLY B. HERMAN

Kimberly B. Herman maintains a global practice advising clients on copyright, trade-mark, patent and trade secret issues while sharing her business strategy expertise and drafting agreements for a wide range of commercial deals and litigation settlements in the media and entertainment, software and life sciences industries.

On any given day, one can find Herman working on anything from a film production agreement for a streaming platform to a clinical trial agreement for a life sciences company to a social media and marketing agreement.

One of Herman’s more noteworthy en-gagements was her successful representa-tion of the estate of Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman in a copyright infringement dis-pute against a global television network for its unauthorized use of the artist’s work in a television series. She has also represented street artists against big businesses that misappropriated their work and recently settled a copyright dispute against NBCU-niversal for its use of her client’s recognized street art in a popular television series.

Additionally, Herman represents a num-ber of well-known film directors with re-spect to film copyright clearance and title matters and investors and filmmakers in

connection with the adaptation of books into feature films.

Herman’s copyright enforcement activ-ities also extend to representing multi-na-tional software companies in connection with their software anti-piracy compliance initiatives in North America.

Most recently, Herman represented Chal-lengeme Esports GmbH (CME), a provider of a sophisticated eSport matchmaking and tournament platform, in its acquisition of a U.S.-based platform provider while advising CME in connection with a strate-gic investment in the company by eSports Mogul (ESM), an ASX-listed eSports media company.

Burns & Levinson partner Joseph M. Maraia brings real-world experience to his patent prosecution and litigation practice at Burns & Levinson in Boston.

After high school, Maraia worked as a master electrician for a decade (he still maintains his license) before going to college for an electrical engineering de-gree.

Several years later, while working as an engineer, his father came up with an inven-tion he wanted to patent. Maraia was bitten by the intellectual property bug and headed off to law school at age 33.

Nearly two decades later, he chairs his firm’s IP group while maintaining one of the area’s leading practices with a special focus on inventions with an electrical component.

Among his many achievements, Mara-ia spent nearly a decade helping client EyeGate Pharmaceuticals create its cut-ting-edge patent portfolio before taking the company public in 2015. In the process, he patented the company’s proprietary medical device drug delivery system, which uses ions and electrical current to deliver drugs to the eye.

Maraia has also served as one of Ray-theon’s key outside attorneys since 2010, where his deep understanding of electrical

circuits and computational systems has made him vital to securing the aerospace and defense conglomerate’s patents.

Meanwhile, Maraia has handled the pat-ent portfolio for global medical technology company Smith & Nephew’s sports medi-cine group since 2012. In his role, he helps S&N’s engineers with product design and development so they can create not only the best product in the market, but one that can be patent-protected.

Additionally, Maraia has overseen Segway’s patent portfolio since 2010 while implementing a successful International Trade Commission strategy to go after inter-national patent infringers.

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Achievements and professional activitiesMember, board of directors, Greater Boston Legal Services; honoree, “Up and Com-ing Lawyers,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2003); program co-chair, Social Law Media Seminar, Boston (2011); panel chair, “How To Win Motions For Summary Judgment,” Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2006 and 2007)

Achievements and professional activitiesCo-chair, Internet and Technology Law Committee, Boston Bar Association; co-chair, Boston College International IP Summit; guest lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Busi-ness; co-chair, Diversity Committee, Ropes & Gray; honoree, “Top Women of Law,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2020); finalist, Chambers “Diversity & Inclusion Lawyer of the Year” (2020)

REGINA SAM PENTIEDWARD J. NAUGHTON

Intellectual property litigator Edward J. Naughton has handled dozens of patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, licens-ing, false advertising and unfair competition disputes in state and federal courts as well as before arbitration panels.

Additionally, Naughton has a breadth of transactional experience, having represent-ed tech companies ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies in software licensing, IT systems, digital media and content devel-opment, technology transfer, and web and internet transactions.

Among Naughton’s signature accom-plishments on the litigation front is his suc-cessful representation of Altova, a leading software tools developer, in patent infringe-ment claims it brought against a competitor. Naughton secured a quick and favorable settlement after presenting his infringe-ment analysis.

He also successfully defended Boucheron Joaillerie, a world-renowned luxury jeweler, against claims of patent infringement over its use of augmented reality technology on its website, and Miniclip, the world’s largest privately owned online gaming site, against cases brought by two different companies over patents they claimed covered its online gaming and mobile apps.

Meanwhile, Naughton has represented clients as diverse as Puma North America, Smith College and the Hertz Corporation in

copyright, trademark and trade secret dis-putes. For example, he successfully defend-ed Smith against copyright infringement claims brought by major textbook publishers while defending Puma against trademark infringement claims brought by rival shoe-maker Keds, which claimed Puma’s Alexan-der McQueen-designed footwear infringed the Pro Keds mark.

Beyond his IP work, Naughton maintains a busy complex business litigation practice. One notable case was his representation of Boston College against the Big East Confer-ence and member institutions that had sued BC when it left to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. Naughton secured summary judgment for BC and settled the case after expedited briefing.

As a dual-qualified U.S. lawyer and so-licitor of England and Wales with offices in both Boston and London, Ropes & Gray partner Regina Sam Penti brings a global perspective to the clients she serves across technology, health care and the life scienc-es, among other areas.

An MIT-trained electrical engineer, Pen-ti draws on her technical background and more than a decade of tech industry and legal experience in counseling technology companies on technical complexities and practical legal aspects.

Penti’s work includes both transactional and contentious matters in multiple global jurisdictions, and she can boast of suc-cessful appearances before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeals Board and the European Opposition Division. Over the course of her legal career, Penti has steered complex IP and technology issues in multi-billion-dollar strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases, joint ven-tures and technology licensing.

A representative example of Penti’s success is the role she played recently in helping investment entity Altimeter Growth Corp. execute a record-breaking combina-tion with Singaporean company Grab Hold-

ings in order to take Grab public in the U.S.Throughout the engagement, Penti led a

team of lawyers tasked with understanding Grab’s complex, multi-national operations, which include ridesharing, delivery and con-cierge services as well as digital payments. In particular, Penti navigated highly complex IP issues and a network of cross-border af-filiates while structuring deal terms to ad-dress such complexities.

Penti, a first-generation immigrant from West Africa, serves as a mentor and advo-cate for her firm’s diverse group of associ-ates and fields consistently diverse teams in her own client representations.

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Labor — LMRA

An employee’s state law claims

seeking compensation for traveling

to a location other than her regular

work site should be dismissed

based on the preemptive effect of

the Labor Management Relations

Act, as those claims require

interpretation of a collective

bargaining agreement, the 1st U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals holds.

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Social services —

Immunity

A social worker was entitled to

absolute immunity for attesting

to the facts in her sworn affidavit

as part of a care and protection

proceeding commenced by the

Department of Children and

Families in Juvenile Court pursuant

to G.L.c. 119, §24, the Supreme

Judicial Court concludes.

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Tort — Wiretap

A plaintiff who consented to the

recording of a telephone interview

with a journalist who had falsely

identified himself could not prevail

under the Massachusetts wiretap

statute (G.L.c. 272, §99), as the

telephone conversation at issue

was not secretly recorded, the

Supreme Judicial Court decides.

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Search and seizure —

BusA defendant was not stopped

in the constitutional sense when

detectives boarded the bus on

which he was traveling, as the

detectives did not objectively

communicate to the defendant

that they would use their police

power to coerce him to stay, the

Appeals Court rules.

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A case of overstepping

This week’s editorial

criticizes a district attorney

who recently called for a

judge to be precluded from

hearing criminal cases.

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Bankruptcy rules apply

to ‘related to’ dispute

By Eric T. Berkman

Lawyers Weekly Correspondent

The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure

governed mass tort claims aggregated in U.S. Dis-

trict Court as “related to” a pending bankruptcy

proceeding, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

has ruled.As a result, the plain-

tiffs’ appeal of the dis-

missal of their claims

— which stemmed from

a deadly railroad de-

railment and oil spill in

Quebec — that would

have been timely under the Federal Rules of Civ-

il Procedure’s notice requirements was barred

as untimely.After the key defendant in the case filed for bank-

ruptcy in the district of Maine, the plaintiffs’ claims

were centralized under an omnibus docket in the

district pursuant to §157(b)(5) of the U.S. Bank-

ruptcy Code, which gives a District Court oversee-

ing a bankruptcy to take jurisdiction over related

“non-core” cases.

After other parties, including the party that had

filed for bankruptcy, settled, only defendant Cana-

dian Pacific remained in the case.

A judge denied the plaintiffs’ subsequent motion

to add the railway’s U.S. subsidiaries, including Soo

Line Railroad Co., as defendants and dismissed the

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The full text of the

ruling in Roy, et al.

v. Canadian Pacific

Railway Company,

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Judge: beneficiary

not entitled to funds

By Pat Murphy [email protected]

The state is entitled to the residue of

an annuity purchased by a husband pri-

or to his death to make his wife eligible

for MassHealth nursing home care ben-

efits despite a claim to the proceeds by

the couple’s daughter as the named con-

tingent beneficiary, a Superior Court

judge has determined.

The daughter of Julius and Suzanne

Breslouf, Jennifer Breslouf, argued that

she was entitled to the proceeds of her

father’s annuity by operation of federal

Medicaid law.But Judge Debra A. Squires-Lee de-

cided that the state is entitled to recover

the amounts paid for Suzanne’s nursing

home care.“Julius purchased the Annuity to re-

move half a million dollars from his and

Suzanne’s countable assets to make Su-

zanne eligible for MassHealth and have

the Commonwealth pay for her nursing

home care. That was permissible only

so long as the annuity was irrevocable,

actuarially sound, and the Common-

wealth was the named remainder ben-

eficiary pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1396p(c)

(1)(F),” Squires-Lee wrote.

The 25-page decision is American Na-

tional Insurance Co. v. Breslouf, et al.,

Lawyers Weekly No. 12-020-21. The full

text of the ruling can be found at mas-

slawyersweekly.com.

Superior Court split

The decision creates a split in the Su-

perior Court with Judge C. William Bar-

rett III having rejected the state’s inter-

pretation of the Medicaid statute in a

2020 case, Dermody v. The Executive Of-

fice of Health and Human Services.

In Dermody, Barrett concluded that

the named beneficiary of a decedent’s

SJC finds COVID-19 delays

implicate due process rights

By Kris [email protected]

Revisiting a subject it first explored a year

ago in Commonwealth v. Lougee, the Supreme

Judicial Court has now found that “continued

unforeseen delays” related to the COVID-19

pandemic may extend the length of pretrial

detention beyond the limits of constitution-

al due process.With its June 9 decision in Mushwaalakbar

v. Commonwealth, the court opened the door

for criminal defendants being held based on

dangerousness under G.L.c. 276, §58A, to

pursue motions for reconsideration.

To get a hearing, a defendant must be held

longer than the presumptive time periods in

§58A, minus any periods of excludable delay

attributed to causes other than the pandemic.

Those periods are 120 days for District Court

cases and 180 for Superior Court cases.

In Lougee, the SJC had held that delays due

to the pandemic, too, constituted excludable

delay under §58A.

But in Mushwaalakbar, Justice David A.

Lowy wrote that “[p]retrial detention based

on dangerousness is constitutional precise-

ly because it is ‘temporary and provisional’

and ‘the trial itself provides an inevitable end

point to the State’s preventive authority.’”

Prolonged delays like the ones resulting

from the pandemic “may, in some cases, up-

set the careful balancing prescribed by the

Legislature in §58A,” Lowy said in writing for

the court.

Door open to revisit pretrial detention

The Nashua Street jail in Boston where the defendant has been held

Continued on page 30



Mass tort case appeal untimelyMassHealth notches

key win on annuities

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The defendant’s father had purchased an

annuity prior to his death to make his wife

eligible for MassHealth nursing home care.


KATHLEEN M. PORTERLISA J. PIROZZOLO

Achievements and professional activitiesCo-chair, intellectual property litigation practice group; member, Boston Bar Foun-dation Society of Fellows; co-chair, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Boston Bar Association; co-chair, associates and work life balance committees, WilmerHale; honoree, “Top Women of Law,” Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2013)

Achievements and professional activitiesCertified Information Privacy Professional/US, International Association of Privacy Professionals; past membership chair, Electronic Contracting Practices Working Group, American Bar Association Business Law Section; past co-chair, ABA Busi-ness Law Section’s Cyberspace Law Committee; member, Women’s Competition Network; panelist, Annual Practising Law Institute Privacy Data Security Conference

Over 25 years of practice, Lisa J. Pirozzo-lo has earned an enviable reputation for her courtroom skills, the careful approach she takes toward her work and her abilities as a writer and strategist.

Pirozzolo concentrates her practice on representing clients in patent infringement and licensing disputes involving a variety of technologies, including pharmaceutical products, gene expression and detection technology, medical devices, printing and photocopy equipment, and telephone ser-vices, while maintaining a specialized focus on life sciences matters and Hatch-Wax-man cases.

Clients call on Pirozzolo to handle all phases of litigation in both trial and appel-late courts and in arbitration and mediation proceedings. She represents clients before U.S. District Courts and the International Trade Commission and has argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and in IPR proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Pirozzolo’s current high-stakes litigation matters include representing CSL Behring in a patent infringement case against Bio-verativ Therapeutics, a Biogen spinoff that has accused CSL of infringing its patents in developing Idelvion, a hemophilia treat-ment that CSL spent a decade developing

and for which Bioverativ is trying to block importation. Trial in this case is scheduled for January.

She also successfully represented Ge-nentech in a case involving its $7-billion-per-year breast cancer drug Herceptin. Sev-eral other manufacturers seeking approval for their own biosimilar versions of the drug challenged the validity of Genentech’s pat-ents via inter partes review.

After several years of litigation, Pirozzolo secured favorable settlements with each challenger in a case that involved novel legal issues, coordinated strategic analy-sis and litigation in multiple jurisdictions, and coordination with other legal teams in co-pending cases.

As a partner in Robinson & Cole’s busi-ness transactions group, Kathleen M. Por-ter counsels emerging growth companies, middle-market companies, and established sellers of technology goods and services on the development, protection and com-mercialization of intellectual property and technology.

In particular, Porter has significant expe-rience helping clients understand, protect and leverage their intellectual property when structuring and negotiating collabora-tion arrangements, joint ventures, licensing, technology transactions and commercial contracts.

In that capacity, she conducts IP due dili-gence and negotiates the purchase and sale of businesses with strategic IP assets of all types.

She also advises on best practices for trade secret protection and noncompete and non-solicitation agreements to help clients protect their most valuable business assets.

Meanwhile, Porter has extensive experi-ence with the full range of intellectual prop-erty issues in cyberspace, e-commerce and internet law. She further advises on the use and protection of open source software.

Porter’s clients include, among others, U.S.- and foreign-based precision manu-facturing, life science, food-and-beverage, energy, consumer products, software, inter-

net and e-commerce, and other technolo-gy-driven businesses.

Among her specific accomplishments, she served as counsel to a public company in negotiating a NAFTA joint venture with a German company that included patent and trademark licensing and joint development of intellectual property and distribution and sale of products.

Porter also served as counsel to a Ger-man company in negotiating an ecommerce agreement with the provider of a new plat-form for a global publishing business.

Additionally, she has served as counsel to online businesses and traditional retail-ers selling online and other clients on the Anti-Cybersquatting Act, the Digital Millen-nium Copyright Act, and the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.

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CHARLES H. SANDERSJANE E. REMILLARD

Achievements and professional activitiesHonoree, Boston University School of Law Women in Law Conference (2009); “Patent Star,” Managing Intellectual Property (2020); “Women Worth Watching in STEM,” Profiles in Diversity Journal (2020); member, Pharmaceutical and Biotech-nology Issues Committee, Intellectual Property Owners Association; member, Amer-ican Intellectual Property Law Association; member, Boston Patent Law Association

Achievements and professional activitiesLeader, intellectual property litigation practice, Boston office; pro bono attorney and founding chair of board of directors, Project Citizenship

For more than 25 years, Boston attorney Jane E. Remillard has provided worldwide patent counseling in the fields of biotech-nology and pharmaceuticals, serving clients ranging from startups to leading global pharmaceutical companies.

In particular, Remillard’s understanding of highly complex technology and the ability to translate it into practical applications that facilitate the commercialization of products — plus her ability to bridge science, law and business — has helped her develop ef-fective IP strategies throughout her career.

For Remillard’s clients, this has meant strong patent portfolios and timely advice on IP aspects of pharmaceutical and bio-technology collaborations, acquisitions, licensing, financing transactions and secu-rities offerings.

Further, Remillard has distinguished her-self as a leader in the field of IP protection for antibody-based therapeutics, a class of drugs that now represents some of the most effective and commercially successful ther-apies for the treatment of a wide range of diseases, including cancer and autoimmune disorders. Patent protection is essential for development of this area, and Remillard has been an integral player in the field for de-cades.

Meanwhile, over the past year, Remillard has been involved in some of the most dis-tinct and pressing niches in the life scienc-es biotech industry, representing multiple startups as they develop therapies relating to stem cells, immunotherapies, and — per-haps most pressing — vaccines and treat-ments for COVID-19.

Because startups rely on timing to survive in a market dominated by big companies such as Pfizer, and knowing the importance of swift filing, Remillard has worked with such clients to submit multiple patent ap-plications on short notice, enabling them to vie for funding while bringing their products to market.

Charles H. Sanders represents technolo-gy companies across a variety of venues, in-cluding U.S. District Court, the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Sanders draws on his technical knowl-edge and broad litigation and trial experi-ence to represent clients across a diverse range of technologies, including semicon-ductors, electromechanical devices, medi-cal technologies and software.

In addition to his litigation work, Sanders draws on his experience with patent filings and the development of patent portfolio strategy to help clients achieve broader IP objectives.

As a result, he has obtained multimil-lion-dollar settlements, ITC exclusion orders, summary judgments, and trial vic-tories in high-stakes intellectual property disputes.

One of Sanders’ signature accomplish-ments was serving as trial counsel for South Korean company Seoul Semiconductor in an infringement case it brought against Japa-nese company Enplas Display Device over optical lenses.

Following a six-day trial in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, a jury found that both of the client’s pat-ents were valid, that Enplas had induced infringement and that the infringement was unlawful. Sanders also successfully defend-ed the result on appeal.

Another significant victory was Sanders’ defense of Waltham digital health company InfoBionic in a suit brought by cardiac te-lemetry company CardioNet alleging that it had infringed six patents and misappropri-ated trade secrets related to cardiac moni-toring technology.

The court invalidated five patents, dis-missed CardioNet’s trade secret claims and granted summary judgment of non-infringe-ment on the remaining patent. Sanders subsequently obtained favorable appellate decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Federal Circuit.

Meanwhile, Sanders served as lead trial counsel for Chinese telecom company ZTE in a case relating to photographic imaging functionality in mobile phones, securing a victory before the International Trade Commission, which ruled that ZTE did not infringe the patents at issue.

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LISA M. TITTEMORESTEVEN G. SAUNDERS

Achievements and professional activitiesChair, intellectual property department; lifetime member, Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society; recognized in “2019-2020 Boston’s Most Recommended Patent Law-yers,” Companyon Ventures; adjunct faculty, Boston University; judge and mentor, MIT 100K Business Plan Competition; mentor, MIT Delta V Program; co-manager, Harvard Club Entrepreneurs’ Roundtable; board member, Boston University Ignition Award Program

Achievements and professional activitiesChair, litigation practice; member, Boston Bar Association Law Firm Leadership Fo-rum; former member, BBA Council; past co-chair, BBA Litigation Section; past-pres-ident, Federal Bar Association, Massachusetts Chapter; leader, WBA Mentoring Circle; member, American Intellectual Property Law Amicus Committee

Steven G. Saunders is a seasoned intel-lectual property lawyer with deep technical expertise.

In this capacity, Saunders has success-fully prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications across an extensive range of technologies, including electri-cal systems, high performance computing, computer hardware and software, analog and digital circuit design, microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and medical products and instrumentation.

He has also helped clients protect inno-vations related to power supplies, graphics processors and accelerators, computer net-working, Internet utilization and enhance-ment devices, injection molding and manu-facturing, data encryption, electric motors, network switching devices, and clean tech-nology.

Among his specific accomplishments, Saunders is particularly proud of working with a startup company from its incep-tion, helping it build a patent portfolio that played a critical role in it being targeted for a nine-figure acquisition.

Representing another client, Saunders used U.S. Patent and Trademark Office post-issuance processes to invalidate third-party patents asserted against the client in a complex, multi-jurisdictional and

high-profile patent litigation.Saunders further helped an entrepreneur

raise capital and protect life-saving technol-ogy in order to deploy it in developing coun-tries, where it saved lives.

Meanwhile, Saunders serves as an angel investor and active participant in the angel investor community, hearing dozens of pre-sentations from early-stage entrepreneurs each year and regularly conducting exten-sive due diligence on potential target com-panies, analyzing both their core businesses and their intellectual property issues.

Saunders has served as an advisory board member for a number of innovative start-up companies, helping them strategize while raising money from investors and VCs.

Lisa M. Tittemore is an experienced lit-igator who has served as lead counsel in patent, trademark and copyright litigation in federal courts throughout the United States.

Tittemore’s extensive experience in intel-lectual property matters has enabled her to provide strategic counsel to clients on both domestic and international issues while guiding Sunstein’s efforts in protecting and enforcing clients’ valuable brands and ideas as chair of the litigation practice.

At the same time, Tittemore has estab-lished an international network of col-leagues who collaborate on the prosecution and enforcement of trademark applications and registrations, including matters before the European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), and other juris-dictions.

Tittemore’s specific litigation highlights include serving as lead counsel for Sage Therapeutics, a biopharma company that provides products for central nervous sys-tem disorders, in a case brought against a company with a similar name and logo. After litigation in U.S. District Court, Titte-more succeeded in having the defendant, a medical marijuana distributor touting its products for treatment of similar disorders, change its name. Beyond the importance of Tittemore’s client protecting its intellectual

property, the case is also noteworthy for ad-dressing federal trademark claims in federal court arising from the rapidly growing mar-ket for a product that, while legal in many states, is still illegal under federal law.

Tittemore has also successfully defended clients in copyright, patent and trademark matters. For example, she successfully de-fended cosmetics company L’Oreal against claims of patent infringement. She also defended music production technology company Focusrite in patent infringement litigation.

Beyond her legal work, Tittemore, who is the most senior female partner in her firm, is a mentor and role model while serving as a leader in both local and IP bars.

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MARK A. WRIGHTBRIAN C. TRINQUE

Achievements and professional activitiesPartner in charge, Boston office; leader, chemical and pharmaceutical patent pros-ecution practice; member, Executive Committee; speaker/panelist, Institute of Pat-ent and Trademark Attorneys (IPTA) Annual Conference (2017); speaker, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (2016 and 2017); speaker, 35th National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (2016)

Achievements and professional activitiesChair, intellectual property practice group; fellow, New Hampshire Bar Foundation; leadership graduate, Manchester Chamber of Commerce; member, board of trust-ees, Pinkerton Academy; chair, Auburn Zoning Board of Adjustment; member, Intel-lectual Property Section, American Bar Association; member, Intellectual Property Section, New Hampshire Bar Association; member, New Hampshire High Technolo-gy Council; former chair, Corporate, Business and Banking Section, New Hampshire Bar; intellectual property honoree, “Leading Lawyers 2021,” Chambers USA

Armed with a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, Brian C. Trinque focuses his practice on pat-ent law in the pharmaceutical and chemical arts, working with clients that range from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and uni-versities, and has built a number of patent portfolios for start-up companies that were acquired by larger pharmaceutical compa-nies.

The portfolios Trinque has helped clients develop and manage focus on all aspects of pharmaceutical development, including initial filings on novel chemical entities, as well as secondary filings directed toward salt forms, prodrugs, polymorph crystal forms, metabolites, formulations, adminis-tration routes, combination therapies and dosages.

Trinque also has significant experience in biotechnological areas such as viral de-livery technologies, including lentiviral and AAV delivery technologies, as well as gene therapy technologies like gene replacement and gene editing.

Additionally, Trinque has worked with technologies beyond the pharmaceutical arts, including process chemistry, polymer and material chemistry, electronic displays,

fuel cell technology, biofuels, nutraceuti-cals, and food products.

In terms of specific engagements, Trinque currently helps one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies safeguard its innovations and designed and maintains a patent portfolio covering a recently ap-proved antibiotic drug that is projected to reach sales exceeding $1 billion in 2023.

He also serves as IP counsel for a pro-ducer of small-molecule drugs that aid in cancer treatment, advising the company on its patent strategies and portfolio manage-ment.

Mark A. Wright, an attorney in McLane Middleton’s Woburn and Manchester, New Hampshire, offices, focuses his robust in-tellectual property practice on counseling clients — which include a global manufac-turing company with more than 4,000 em-ployees in 34 manufacturing centers across seven countries on three different conti-nents — and assisting them in protecting their IP rights in the U.S. and abroad.

Wright’s experience spans a wide range of intellectual property areas, including do-mestic and international trademarks, devel-opment agreements and licensing of soft-ware, trade secrets, domain name disputes and other Internet-related issues, confiden-tiality agreements, and litigation related to intellectual property rights.

In handling such matters, Wright has gained a reputation as a leading intellectual property attorney with an extensive practice representing regional, national and interna-tional businesses, with a particular focus in trademark matters.

Wright also has expertise in the patent arena and works closely with inventors in helping them acquire the strongest possible patent rights when preparing and filing pat-ent applications for them.

Meanwhile, he represents clients in nu-merous areas related to copyright, including software, literary works, advertising and marketing collateral, character designs and logos, photographs, audiovisual works, mu-sic and paintings.

Beyond his busy practice, Wright chairs his firm’s intellectual property practice group. Additionally, Wright, active in civic and charitable affairs, chairs the Zoning Board of Adjustment in the New Hampshire town of Auburn, and serves as a trustee of Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hamp-shire.

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