McCarter & English has attracted two intellectual property partners – patent litigator John Gutkoski, who tries cases in the life sciences and high tech sectors, and Jonathan Lovely who represents large medical device companies and emerging growth companies in patent prosecution and related strategies – to its Boston office.
“We are excited to add John and Jonathan to our IP strategies platform,” said Betty Hanley, McCarter’s IP group leader. “They are a terrific fit with our team and align beautifully with the needs of our life science, medical device and high technology client base. With John and Jonathan added to the mix, we continue to position our services around our clients’ needs and objectives.”
Gutkoski, a trial lawyer for nearly 25 years, will continue to represent medical device, pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies, plus high tech clients, in both challenging and defending patent rights. A familiar figure as first-chair litigator in federal courthouses in Massachusetts, Texas, New York, Delaware and other districts, he is perhaps best known for winning a complete defense verdict of non-infringement and invalidity from an East Texas jury. He led the defense trial team in defeating a $600 million patent claim against a leading national bank. He also served as lead trial counsel for a multi-patent Hatch Waxman litigation in Delaware federal court, representing a well known pharmaceutical manufacturer. An NYU Law School alum, Gutkoski was most recently practicing at Barclay Damon with former WilmerHale partners.
Lovely provides strategic patent portfolio management and prosecution for high technology and medical device companies, ranging from large, established concerns to emerging growth companies. Trained in biomedical engineering, he assists his clients with developing patent portfolios, freedom to operate, invalidity, non-infringement opinions as well as due diligence issues. His clients also include companies in the mechanical devices, telecommunications, image and video processing and digital signal processing sectors.
Before becoming a lawyer, Lovely was an engineer in the pharmaceutical, medical device and industrial radiography industries, helping design, develop and bring to market products, including industrial and medical radioactive sources. A cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School, he joins the firm from Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP.
Source: www.mccarter.com
