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Sarah Chapin Columbia is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and co-head of the Boston Intellectual Property Practice Group. Her practice focuses on intellectual property litigation including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters. She also counsels clients on overall intellectual property strategy and positioning, including litigation avoidance. She also has extensive experience in representing clients in private arbitration proceedings under the rules and procedures of the International Chamber of Commerce, Swiss Chamber of Commerce, World Intellectual Property Organization, American Arbitration Association and other organizations.
Sarah has appeared in several state, federal district and appellate courts. She represents clients across several industries including semiconductor, biotechnology, internet, hardware and software, medical device and manufacturing companies.
Sarah is active in her local community. She is an officer on the board of Family Service of Greater Boston, a member of the Boston Athenaeum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science and the New England Aquarium and has previously served on the board of the Boys and Girls Club of Charlestown. She also participates in the Wesleyan University Alumni Association and Alumni Schools Committee.
She is the author of "Irreparable Harm and Injunctions," 2007 Leadership Forum, PricewaterhouseCoopers, February 2007 and the co-author of "Beware Patent Trolls," Risk Management Magazine, April 2006.
Sarah has been highly recognized as a leader in her field by Chambers USA. Sarah earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, her MPP from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and her B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University. She is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Boston Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, First Circuit, Second Circuit, Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Representative Experience:
Represented defendants (now known as GE Water) in patent infringement action involving electrodeionization technology. (US Filter v. Glegg Water Conditioning, D Massachusetts)
Represented Furukawa Electric North America and its subsidiary, OFS-Fitel, in patent infringement litigation involving optical fiber products and methods for manufacturing them. Furukawa Electric North America, Inc. v. Yangtze Fibre & Cable Company, Ltd., D Massachusetts
Represented plaintiff in patent infringement litigation involving systems for laser marking silicon wafers. GSI Lumonics Corp. v. Rofin-Baasel, Inc. and Carl Baasel Lasertechnik GmbH & Co KG, ED Michigan
Represented plaintiff in patent litigation involving process for ultra violet grafting on non-woven polymer films. Crane & Co. v. Holingsworth & Vose Corp., D Massachusetts
Represented Akamai in two separate patent litigations involving internet content delivery and traffic management technology. Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Speedera Networks, Inc., D Massachusetts and Akamai Technologies, Inc. v. Limelight Networks, Inc., D Massachusetts
Represented Voice Signal in three separate patent litigations involving speech recognition and mobile communications technology. ScanSoft, Inc. v. Voice Signal Technologies, Inc., D Massachusetts, Nuance Technologies, Inc. v. Voice Signal Technologies, Inc., D Massachusetts and Voice Signal Technologies, Inc. v. Nuance Technologies, Inc., WD Pennsylvania
Represented defendants in patent infringement litigation involving switching mechanisms for power converters. VLT v. Lucent Technologies, Inc. and Tyco Electronics Power Systems, Inc., D Massachusetts
Represented defendant in patent infringement litigation involving embroidering methods. Chien-Lu-Lin v. Twins Enterprises, CD California
Represented Innovasive Devices, Inc. in two patent infringement actions involving orthopedic medical devices. Arthrex, Inc. v. Innovasive Devices, Inc., MD Florida; Bionx, Inc. v. Innovasive Devices, Inc., D Massachusetts
Education:
Harvard Law School, J.D. (magna cum laude), 1987
John F. Kennedy School of Government, MPP, 1987
Wesleyan University, B.A., 1982 |
