Robert M. Abrahamsen
Bob Abrahamsen’s practice focuses on the enforcement and defense of intellectual property rights. Bob is knowledgeable and experienced in the fields of patents, trademarks, trade dress, unfair competition, copyrights, and trade secrets. He has advised clients in a variety of industries including electronic payment systems and networks, pre-paid and stored value card processing, point-of-sale systems, integrated circuit design, X-ray imaging, e-commerce, internet conferencing, remote control systems, wire and cable design, juvenile products, and fitness monitoring equipment.
Bob has extensive experience in preparing and prosecuting both domestic and foreign patent applications, primarily concerning innovations in the electronic, software, and mechanical arts.
- Secured judgment that Amazon.com’s 1-click ordering system infringes valid claims of client’s patent.
- Successfully and economically defended against several patent infringement suits brought by non-practicing entities in E.D. Texas and elsewhere.
- Obtained eight-figure settlement of multi-patent dispute between two major competitors in the growing field of computer-based technologies.
- Obtained summary judgment of invalidity of asserted claims of a patent covering a mobile X-ray imaging system based upon prior offer for sale contained in patentee’s government development contract.
- Assisted start-up company in developing IP strategy and portfolio to protect groundbreaking innovations in fitness monitoring equipment that ultimately formed the basis for successful large-scale product launch by Fortune 100 company.
- Obtained five-figure settlement payment for a tenant facing eviction proceedings for non-payment of less than $300 by aggressively pursuing several counterclaims.
Prior to joining the firm, Bob was employed as a Digital Engineer for Dynamic Science, Inc., a military contractor at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, where he designed and implemented communications equipment used to support missile launches.
Boston Patent Law Association
- Co-chair, Amicus Committee
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
UCLA Alumni Association
Intellectual Property Owners Association
- Patent Office Inter Partes Proceedings Committee
Massachusetts Super Lawyers’ “Rising Stars” in intellectual property law.
Bob serves as chair of the firm’s Public Service Committee and has handled a number of pro bono cases. He is also Co-chair of the Amicus Committee of the Boston Patent Law Association.
University of California at Los Angeles, B.S., Electrical Engineering
Franklin Pierce Law Center, M.I.P., (Master of Intellectual Property)
Franklin Pierce Law Center, J.D.
Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado
