Jerry Cohen is a long time intellectual property practitioner and has served as a patent examiner, in a corporate legal department environment and in private practice. Jerry Cohen has litigated, arbitrated, and mediated a wide variety of intellectual property matters and has served as neutral evaluator, counsel, and expert witness in many intellectual property disputes. He was recognized as one of the 100 Best Lawyers in Massachusetts in the
Mass. Lawyers' Weekly polling for 2008 and has been on that journal's Superlawyer list in the IP category for six years. He was also recognized as a 2008 Superlawyer and 2009 Best Lawyer award in Rhode Island and is on the
Law and Politics Inc. list of Best Lawyers in New England for 2008 and in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America in the Intellectual Property specialty.
Legal experience, including litigation/ADR in the areas of:
- Patents: prosecution, litigation/ADR, and licensing
- Trade Secrets: counseling, litigation/ADR, and licensing
- Copyright: publishing, music, software, architecture, art, music/film-video, virtual worlds
- Trademark: prosecution, litigation/ADR, and licensing-franchising
- Legal Ethics
- International trade and distribution/licensing relationships: export controls for goods and data
- Civil Procedure and Evidence
Representative Matters
- Agriculture and aquaculture
- Automotive, aerospace, and power systems
- Batteries and fuel cells
- Computer software/business methods
- Copyrights
- Electrical power controls for vehicles, machines, and lighting
- Executive employment, shareholder, and investment agreements
- Export Control
- Government and private support of R&D (contracts, grants, SBIR, and CRADA)
- Insurance coverage
- Materials (ceramics, metals, plastics, elastomers, wood, composites, chemicals, and biologics)
- Mechanical systems
- Medical devices
- Optics
- Pharma/biotech
- Professional ethics
- Radiant energy systems (CT, MRI, sputtering, plasma, ion beam, EB, gas cluster ion beam, Xray, etc.)
- Regulatory and public disclosures
- Research contracts/joint ventures
- Tax
- Trademarks
- Trade Secrets