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Michael R. McGurk
Partner
Mike McGurk, managing partner of the firm’s Cambridge, Mass., office, has over 25 years of experience in IP matters involving all aspects of patent law, primarily in pharmaceutical, chemical, medical device, and mechanical technologies. Mr. McGurk works with a range of clients including small
start-ups and large Fortune 100 companies.
Mr. McGurk’s practice includes due diligence matters; opinion work; global portfolio development, strategy, and management; as well as adversarial proceedings, including litigation, interferences and reexaminations. He has substantial due diligence experience in pre-litigation, acquisition, in-license, freedom-to-operate product and/or process clearance, design around, and validity and patentability matters. Mr. McGurk has represented clients in patent litigations filed in numerous U.S. district courts, including E.D. New York, D. Delaware, E.D. Texas, D. District of Columbia, and E.D. Washington. He has also been responsible for handling over a dozen patent interferences before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and he has argued numerous appeals to the Board in ex parte matters.
Highlights
- Works with clients Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Energy Sciences, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Spine Wave, and Hydra BioSciences, as well as other Fortune 100 companies worldwide, in all aspects of IP.
- Successfully argued in Toxgon v. Duratek litigation in E.D. Washington that Toxgon’s $690 million dollar patent infringement claim against Duratek should be dismissed with prejudice on summary judgment.
- Submission to Senator Leahy on behalf of Boston Patent Law Association on certain provisions of S1145, Patent Reform Act of 2007.
- Served as an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School teaching patent litigation and dispute resolution, 1998-2000.
- Served at the USPTO as a patent examiner in the chemical arts, 1983.
- Pro bono work on behalf of veterans, that contributed to Finnegan's donation of $40,000 to the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, 2010.
Professional Activities
- Boston Bar Association
- Boston Patent Law Association (co-chair, Contested Matters Committee)
- District of Columbia Bar Association (Sections on Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Law)
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Federal Circuit Bar Association
- American Bar Association (Sections on Litigation, Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Law)
- American Intellectual Property Law Association (chair, Public Information Committee, 1996-1998)
- American Chemical Society
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