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
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
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
Boston College Law School,
1982 JDState University of New York at Stony Brook,
1979 MS, Computer ScienceUniversity of Scranton,
1978 BS, Computer Science and Mathematics
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
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.
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