ROBERT D. CARROLL

Rob Carroll is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation and Business Litigation groups. He has experience in intellectual property litigation and counseling, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, false advertising and unfair competition matters. He also has experience in complex business litigation and arbitration, and appellate practice.  He serves as co-chair of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Mr. Carroll joined Goodwin Procter in 2005.

WORK FOR CLIENTS

Trademark, Copyright, Patent, Trade Secret and False Advertising Disputes

Mr. Carroll has experience in trademark litigation, both in federal court and before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, patent, copyright, trade secret and false advertising litigation. His recent representative experience includes:

• Lead counsel for Olympus NDT in a patent inventorship dispute involving patents related to x-ray fluorescence systems.
• Lead counsel for Nuance Communications, Inc. in multiple trade secret and non-competition disputes.
• Lead counsel for Innov-X Systems, Inc. in defense of Lanham Act competitor false advertising litigation.
• Co-lead counsel for Honest Tea, Inc. in defense of false advertising class action.
• Counsel for multiple software companies in enforcing and defending copyright claims.
• Counsel for Cablevision Systems Corporation in copyright litigation against ABC, CBS, Twentieth Century Fox and other media companies concerning Cablevision’s remote storage digital video recorder.

Business Disputes

Mr. Carroll has experience in a broad range of business litigation and arbitration, with a particular focus on disputes arising under intellectual property license agreements.  His recent representative experience includes:

• Co-lead counsel for Finisar Corporation in arbitration against JDS Uniphase Corporation arising from breach of patent license agreement. Client was awarded approximately $8 million in damages.
• Counsel for Teva Pharmaceuticals, USA in dispute with Shire PLC and Impax Laboratories, Inc. concerning license and distribution agreement.
• Lead counsel for investment funds in sovereign debt litigation against the Republic of Argentina.
• Counsel for venture capital fund in litigation against shareholders of portfolio company.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. Carroll is a member of the International Trademark Association and the Boston and American Bar Associations. He has provided pro bono legal services for numerous asylum applicants and unaccompanied minors in immigration proceedings.

MEDIA

Mr. Carroll served as a faculty member each year since 2010 in the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) national Patent Litigation annual seminar in which he has  presented “Recent Developments in Patent Law and Their Impact on Patent Litigation.” He also taught the PLI patent litigation briefings: “Caraco v. Novo Nordisk: Supreme Court Alters the Landscape of Hatch-Waxman Litigation” in 2012, and “Therasense: Reshaping the Inequitable Conduct Doctrine” in 2011. He is the co-author of “10 Simple Steps to Ensure Software Licensing Compliance,” IP Law 360 (2008) and “Electronic Trespass Requires Physical, Not Economic, Injury,” MediaLawLetter (2003), and author of “Connecticut Retrenches: A Proposal To Save the Affordable Housing Appeals Procedure,” 110 Yale L.J. 1247 (2001). From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Carroll edited revisions to Copyright Law: A Practitioner's Guide (PLI 2001).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Carroll was a litigation associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.  Before that, he served as a law clerk for then-Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Mr. Carroll is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, and U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

RECOGNITION

While in law school, Mr. Carroll served as Book & Case Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law.