ROBERT S. BLASI

Robert Blasi is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department. As a patent attorney, he assists technology companies with intellectual property issues that they encounter every day including patent strategy and portfolio development, open source software usage, intellectual property issues arising in corporate transactions and licensing.

WORK FOR CLIENTS

Mr. Blasi has significant experience developing and implementing patent portfolio strategies in the areas of computer software and hardware and business methods, both domestically and abroad. His portfolio clients range from incipient technology companies to members of the Fortune 1000.

Mr. Blasi is an authority on issues concerning software licensed under “open source” licenses. He has worked extensively on open source issues arising in corporate transactions and due diligence, and on the development and implementation of appropriate internal usage policies.

Mr. Blasi’s transactional practice includes intellectual property licensing and opinion work addressing issues of freedom-to-operate, patentability, infringement and validity. He regularly counsels clients concerning intellectual property issues arising in subscription agreements, acquisitions and asset purchases.

Mr. Blasi also assists trial counsel with patent issues that arise in the course of litigation. He has worked on patent litigation in the areas of computer software, computer hardware, cable television technologies, portable bar code printers, airplane security systems and e-commerce methods.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

For several years Mr. Blasi has served as a judge for Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court competition and the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition.

MEDIA

Mr. Blasi regularly speaks on current issues in intellectual property law, including open source licensing and enforcement, cross-border issues in IT contracting, and restrictions on technology export, for a variety of audiences including the Boston Bar Association, the Knowledge Congress and Computerworld’s Open Source Business Conference. He has written for several print and electronic publications and treatises.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2005, Mr. Blasi was an associate in the Patent and Intellectual Property Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston.

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Mr. Blasi is admitted to practice in Massachusetts; the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

RECOGNITION

Mr. Blasi has been named a “Massachusetts Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine for each of the past five years. While in law school, he was a senior editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.

As a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, Mr. Blasi worked with a team of researchers to develop an automobile that could steer itself on a highway using computer vision techniques. The car operated at speeds up to 90 mph.