Lawyer Overview

Michael Bevilacqua is a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Department. He joined the firm in 1987.

Practice

Mr. Bevilacqua's practice focuses primarily on technology-related agreements, such as license agreements (principally software license agreements and patent license agreements), development agreements, distribution agreements and joint venture agreements.

Mr. Bevilacqua has a considerable trademark practice, which includes the management of several thousand US and foreign trademark and service mark registrations. He has extensive trademark licensing experience, and has handled numerous trademark oppositions and cancelations.

Honors and Awards

• Selected as one of only 25 recipients of the Corporation Service Company’s Trademark Insider Award for achievements in the trademark industry in 2007
• Recognized as a leading intellectual property attorney in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business
• Listed in Who's Who Legal, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2007
• Named a "New England Super Lawyer" (formerly "Massachusetts Super Lawyer") in intellectual property law in the November 2004, 2005 and 2006 issues of Boston Magazine

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Life Sciences
• Information Technology
• Internet, E-Commerce and New Media
• Nanotechnology
• Copyright
• Due Diligence and Opinions
• Licensing and Technology Transfer
• Patent
• Proprietary Information and Trade Secrets
• Trademark, Trade Dress and Domain Names
• Technology Transactions and Licensing

Representative Cases

• Digital Equipment Corporation v. Intel Corporation , (US District Court for the District of Massachusetts)
• Gateway 2000 v. Government Technology Services, Inc.
• PerSeptive Biosystems, Inc. v. Pharmacia and Sepracor, Inc. , (US District Court for the District of Massachusetts)
• Porter v. Tamfelt, Inc. , (US District Court for the District of Massachusetts)
• SR Holdings, Inc. v. Timberland Company , (US District Court for the District of Massachusetts)
• Sterilite Corporation v. American Plastics, LLC
• The Morningside Group Ltd. v. Morningside Capital Group LLC
• Townshend Intellectual Property LLC v. Analog Devices, Inc.

West Practice Categories

Biotechnology, Copyrights, Intellectual Property Law, Patents, Pharmaceutical Products, Science & Technology Law, Technology Licensing, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts
• New York

Education

• Boston College Law School, 1982
  JD
• State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1979
  MS, Computer Science
• University of Scranton, 1978
  BS, Computer Science and Mathematics

Published Works

• GPL Version 3 Has Arrived! Now What?, 2007
• Nanotechnology Licensing, 2005
• Implied Patent Licenses, 2003
• Multilingual Domain Names Set for Broad Implementation, 2003
• Software Licensing Compliance Grace Period Ends February 28, 2003, 2003
• TEACH Act Allows for Distance Education over the Internet, 2003
• What Constitutes Authorship of a Computer Program for Purposes of Copyright?, 2002
• Federal Trade Commission and Trademark Owners Call for Changes to Pay-for-Placement Search Engines, 2002
• New ".eu" Top Level Domain May Simplify Domain Registration Procedures in Europe, 2002
• Invisible Ink: When What You See Is Not What You Get, 2001
• Russian Programmer Arrested under Digital Millennium Copyright Act for Removing Security Features, 2001
• Supreme Court Rules That Online Databases May Not Incorporate Works by Freelance Writers without Specific Permission, 2001
• dot-biz and dot-info Domains Scheduled for Launch; Trademark Holders Given Preferential Treatment, 2001
• Web Hosts May Be Liable for Trademark Infringement on Hosted Sites, 2001
• Use of Others' Trademarks As Metatags Found to Be Intent to Cause Confusion in a Trademark Infringement Case, 2001
• Foreign Domain Name Registration Requirements Vary Widely, 2001
• Open Source Software - Factors to Consider, 2000
• Preparing for New Top-Level and Multilingual Domain Names, 2000
• Disparaging Domain Names Wrestled from Registrant Under ICAAN Policy, 2000
• Recent International Developments on Internet Privacy, 2000
• Safe Harbor Offers Protection against Copyright Infringement Suits Arising from Third-Party Content, 2000
• New Domain Name Dispute Policy Gets First Test, 2000

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