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• Verizon GPL Settlement Highlights Necessity of Open Source Compliance
• Sullivan & Worcester Announces New Partners
• New Patent Rules Significantly Alter U.S. Patent Prosecution Practice
• SCO Update
• Open Source Software GPLv2 vs. GPLv3
• Down But Not Out: Working Around the U.S. Government's Crackdown

• Another Victory for Trademark Owners in Fight Against Gray Market Goods
• Verizon GPL Settlement Highlights Necessity of Open Source Compliance
• C.B.C. Distribution and Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P.
• Google Settles Trademark Case Involving AdWords Program; Faces New Suit by American Airlines
• District Court Issues Interpretation of Open Source “Artistic License”; First U.S. Lawsuit Filed to Enforce GPL
• New Patent Rules Significantly Alter U.S. Patent Prosecution Practice
• SCO Update
• Open Source Software GPLv2 vs. GPLv3
• Supreme Court Rules That a Licensee Need Not Breach Their License in Order to Challenge the Underlying Patent
• Supreme Court Holds Injunctive Relief is an Equitable Remedy at the Discretion of the Court, Upholdling the Traditional Four Factor Test

Intellectual Property

Sullivan & Worcester intellectual property lawyers draw on their business judgment and legal insight to create cost-effective and innovative solutions to clients' intellectual property issues. We handle every aspect of intellectual property programs: conducting due diligence, acquiring and licensing of patents, trademarks and copyrights; initiating and maintaining extensive trademark and copyright registration programs; and enforcing intellectual property rights worldwide against infringers, counterfeiters, dealers in gray market goods, and cyber-squatters.

Practice Profile - Technology & Life Sciences IP (PDF)

Practice Profile - Trademarks, Copyrights & Licensing (PDF)

Representative Client Work

• Serve as outside intellectual property counsel for several high profile companies, including LoJack Corporation and Bain & Company
• Conducted nationwide intellectual property protection and enforcement programs, and handled related litigation, on behalf of golf legends Tiger Woods, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and their licensing entities, as well as Comedy Partners (South Park), and NCP Marketing Group, Inc. (Tae Bo)
• Represented emerging growth companies including several venture-backed software vendors in connection with the preparation and negotiation of complicated and multi-tiered software license agreements with their customers, including Fortune 100 companies UBS and Manulife Financial
• Secured a favorable settlement for our client in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning temperature time and tracking devices
• Conducted domestic trademark enforcement program throughout New York and the Eastern United States on behalf of a manufacturer of premium blue jeans
• Represented a medical device company with the strategic development and prosecution of its patent portfolio related to breast biopsy and cryoablation devices