Laurence M. Sandell

Associate

Laurence Sandell focuses his practice on patent prosecution and litigation in mechanical and electrical technologies, particularly in the medical device field. Mr. Sandell’s litigation practice includes Section 337 Investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Highlights

• Represented indigent criminal defendants in D.C. Superior Court as a student attorney in the DC Law Students in Court Program, while attending law school.
• Served as an Associate on The George Washington Law Review.
• In recognition of an undergraduate engineering project, received 1st prize in the National Institute for the Severely Handicapped’s Workplace Technology Scholarship Program.
  

Professional Activities

• Order of the Coif
• American Bar Association
• California Bar Association

Select Publications

• Coauthor. "Trademark Licensees May Be Barred from Challenging the Licensor's Ownership of the Mark," LES Insights, Oct. 24, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Patent Licenses Are Presumed to Include Continuation Patents When Same Products Are at Issue," LES Insights, Sept. 19, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Cross License Agreements Had Only Tenuous Relevance to Determining Reasonably Royalty Damages and Were Not Required to Be Produced in Patent Litigation," LES Insights, July 11, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Declaratory Judgment Action Challenging Patent Validity and Infringement Was Dismissed Despite a Patent Owner's Statement that the Plaintiff's Product May Infringe Certain Patents," LES Insights, May 16, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Terminating a License Agreement Precludes Recovering Post-Judgment Royalties Under the Agreement," LES Insights, March 14, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Licensee Breaches License Agreement by Allowing Its Law Firm Access to the Licensed Technology," LES Insights, Feb. 14, 2011.
• Coauthor. "Judges Diverge on Use of Patent License Negotiations to Determine a Reasonable Royalty," LES Insights, Dec. 6, 2010.
• Coauthor. "A Proposal to Remove Uncertainty from Claims of Small Entity Status before the USPTO by Correcting and Enhancing SBA and USPTO Regulations," Bloomberg Law Reports, Jan. 19, 2010.