Lee Carl Bromberg, Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, Boston MA

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Lee Carl Bromberg is co-founder of Bromberg & Sunstein LLP and chairs our Litigation Practice Group. A leading intellectual property litigator and accomplished trial strategist, Lee has successfully handled a wide range of technology-based disputes, including numerous patent infringement actions, and trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition and related cases in high technology areas.

Lee's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, in which he has represented numerous national companies. Specific patent cases in electronics, software, medical devices, biochemistry and other disciplines have involved technologies including electric motors, consumer electronic appliances, mechanical compression packing, road marking devices, image processing systems, voice recognition systems, CADCAM software, telephone circuitry and call routing systems, web site operating software, printing press technology, polymer plastics, intravenous valves and equipment, ACL surgical techniques, chromatography, immunochemical diagnostic devices and electrochemical biosensors. He has had extensive experience in presenting complex technical and scientific subject matter to courts and to juries and has achieved outstanding results in a number of cases. In one patent infringement case, Lee obtained at trial and successfully preserved on appeal a $25 million dollar judgment for willful patent infringement. In another case, he secured a jury verdict denying any recovery on a claim for $11.5 million in patent infringement damages.

A substantial portion of Lee's practice has also been devoted to copyright, trademark, trade secret and unfair competition litigation. Lee has represented nationally known companies in trademark and trade dress cases and has assisted a number of clients in trade secret misappropriation disputes. He has also represented companies in commercial cases involving scientific equipment and other technical subject matter, including environmental cases. Lee's practice also includes client counseling, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution in intellectual property matters and complex commercial matters.

In recent years Lee has served as a court-appointed discovery master for a hotly contested patent litigation. He has also testified as an expert witness on patent litigation and on trademark law and practice.

Lee has authored numerous articles and been a frequent speaker on intellectual property law and litigation at continuing legal education programs and before bar associations and other professional organizations. For the past several years he has been organizing co-chair of the annual intellectual property conference sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education in Boston. Lee currently serves on the Council of the Boston Bar Association and as a Trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation. He is an Officer of the Board of Governors of the Boston Patent Law Association. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Lee graduated from the University of Michigan with high honors and received an M.A. from Cornell University. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School (J.D. 1969). He previously served as a Special Assistant Attorney General and as Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law.

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Philippe Bennett

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Phillipe Bennett, a partner with the intellectual property group at Coudert Brothers, was interviewed regarding " International Intellectual Property Issues" for American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel. The show was titled “Focus on Intellectual Property: Building, Protecting and Profiting from your IP Portfolio.”

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Sidney Katz

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Sidney Katz was interviewed for the American Airline's Forbes Business & Technology Channel on The Show Titled: “WORLD BUSINESS MONITOR: Successful Business & Legal Strategies in the International Marketplace”- “Focus on Intellectual Property.”

To listen to Sidney Katz's interview on "Building, Protecting and Profiting from your IP Portfolio," click on the International Patent's icon on the Professional Recruiter's Web site.

As senior principal of Welsh & Katz, Ltd., which he co-founded in 1983, A. Sidney Katz is engaged primarily in client counseling, licensing, and litigation concerning all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He has received significant recognition for his work in the protection of computer programs and video games under copyright laws.

During his career, Mr. Katz has served as an engineering technician with Filmotype Corp., a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent Office; a law clerk with the Washington, D.C., firm of Hurvitz & Rose; an associate attorney in Chicago with the late Leonard G. Nierman, Esq.; and as a partner in the Chicago firm of Fitch, Even, Tabin, Flannery & Welsh where he practiced for 15 years before co-founding Welsh & Katz.