Thomas A. Franklin

Tommy Franklin provides a wide range of IP services including patent portfolio development and management, due diligence, patent validity and infringement opinions, and technical consultation on litigation matters. His broad technical background in the areas of physics, electrical engineering, and physical oceanography facilitates his counseling of clients in a wide range of technical fields, including medical imaging, circuit design and signal processing for audio devices and imaging devices, electromagnetic sensors, optics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) circuit design and fabrication, semiconductors, and fluid-based technologies.

Tommy represents both large and small companies, start-ups, and many of the top universities in the Boston area. His range of experience with various types of clients enables him to understand each client’s needs and provide them with an appropriate IP strategy.

• Counseled an early-stage startup company on an issue of potential patent infringement as a barrier to market entry.
• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications relating to imaging technologies as part of the general development of an IP portfolio for a start-up.
• Consulted to a large corporation on the scope of multiple semiconductor device patents being asserted against the corporation in a patent infringement suit.

During graduate school, Tommy served as a Research Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems, where he designed and conducted investigations of magnetic-colloid flow in rotating and oscillating magnetic fields, with a focus on applications to nano-scale devices.

During college, Tommy completed a physical oceanography internship where he collected and analyzed temperature and salinity data in the Long Island Sound. He also assisted with the collection of data for mapping ocean currents in near-shore areas.

Tommy is a recipient of the Boston College Alumni Scholarship. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa.

Tommy has served as both a judge and mentor for business plan competitions. He is also actively involved with Boston College Law School, as both a hiring representative for Wolf Greenfield and as a speaker.

Bucknell University, B.A., Physics, magna cum laude

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude

Massachusetts

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office