Nicola A Pisano

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Nick is a trial attorney with more than 35 years of experience litigating various electrical, software and mechanical technologies, including medical devices, anti-malware, encryption and acoustic/vibration analysis software, telecommunications, computer peripherals, and Internet-based and mechanical devices. He has served as trial counsel in more than 150 cases, and as lead counsel in over 100, involving patent, trade secret, trade dress and copyright issues in federal district courts throughout the US. He has served as lead counsel in interference proceedings and inter partes reviews before the USPTO, import matters pending before the ITC and appeals before the Federal Circuit.

Nick has extensive experience representing hundreds of start-up and early-stage companies in developing patent portfolios in diverse technical fields, including a vast array of medical device technologies, software and machine learning, wireless communications, general computer, telephony and network technologies. The USPTO website lists Nicola as having prosecuted nearly 500 patents, and he has supervised drafting and prosecution of thousands more patents and applications worldwide. He also has broad experience assisting start-up and early-stage companies with managing worldwide patent portfolios, licensing and strategic/litigation planning, representing premier domestic and international venture capital firms in connection with intellectual property due diligence of investment targets engaged in developing medical devices, energy and wireless/telecommunications technologies.

A nuclear engineer by training and commercial experience, Nick brings a common-sense, cost-efficient and client goal-oriented approach to litigation and strategic portfolio management.