BOSTON, Aug. 26, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- McCarter & English announced today that Lee Bromberg and Erik Belt have joined the firm as partners in the Boston Office's expanding Intellectual Property/ Information Technology Group. Mr. Bromberg and Mr. Belt have established themselves as leading intellectual property litigators and trial strategists.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome Lee and Erik to the firm," said William J. Heller, chair of the Intellectual Property/Information Technology Practice at McCarter & English. "Their demonstrated skills as trial lawyers handling a wide range of complex intellectual property and technology-based disputes will enhance our firm's growing full-service IP and IT practice, and serve as a strong addition to the broad array of services we offer our clients."
Mr. Bromberg was the co-founder of Bromberg & Sunstein in 1979 and is among the nation's foremost intellectual property trial lawyers. He has successfully handled a broad range of technology-based cases including numerous patent infringement actions and trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition cases in high technology areas. In 2005, Mr. Bromberg won a nearly 21 million dollar false advertising jury verdict, the largest financial judgment in music industry history, according to MusicTrades Magazine. That is just one of the many multimillion dollar verdicts he has won for his clients.
"Erik and I have found McCarter to be the perfect fit for our practice because of the firm's cutting-edge vision and culture of camaraderie," said Mr. Bromberg. "I'm proud of what we accomplished at our former firm, but at McCarter we are able to draw on larger resources and added levels of expertise that are needed to handle the sophisticated, challenging and ever more complex intellectual property cases of our clients."
Mr. Bromberg earned his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, his Master's Degree in English from Cornell University and his Bachelor's Degree magna cum laude from the University of Michigan. He is dedicated to his profession and community with positions including: former President, Boston Patent Law Association; founding member, Boston IP Inn of Court Fellow; former Trustee, Boston Bar Foundation; Trustee, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education; Member of the Board of Directors, Boston Baroque and Board Member, Do the Right Thing. He is recognized as a leader in his field by Chambers and Partners, 2009.
Mr. Belt is a trial lawyer whose practice focuses on patent, trademark and licensing disputes in federal and state courts, arbitrations and the United States Patent & Trademark Office. He has tried a wide array of technology cases involving, for example, software, medical devices and x-ray inspection systems. Mr. Belt won approximately $11 million in unpaid royalties, attorney's fees and interest for an R & D lab that had invented the key component of a profitable medical diagnostic device.
Mr. Belt earned his Juris Doctorate cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School and his Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude from Brown University. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Boston Patent Law Association and, as co-chair of its Amicus Committee, has written amicus briefs in several important appeals of patent law issues including cases heard by the United States Supreme Court. He is also involved in other charity and volunteer efforts in the community.
About the Intellectual Property/Information Technology Practice
McCarter & English's full IP group, 52 intellectual property and information technology lawyers and patent agents with industry experience and advanced degrees, spanning its regional offices, ranks among the nation's top 10 by number of patent cases in which it is counsel, according to the 2009 Law 360 Litigation Almanac.
About McCarter & English
McCarter & English, established more than 160 years ago, represents Fortune 500 and middle-market companies in their national, regional and local litigation and on important transactions. Its 400 attorneys are based in offices in Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Stamford and Wilmington.
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