Education
- Tufts University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering
- University of Colorado, M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Suffolk University Law School, J.D.
Mark B. Solomon
Mark Solomon is a Principal of the firm and has dedicated his legal career to guiding engineering companies and university engineering centers through the development, management, protection, and enforcement of intellectual property rights. He drafts and prosecutes patent applications and assists clients with intellectual property matters relating to patent litigation, trademark oppositions, written and oral opinions, trademark prosecution, copyright law, licensing, domain name disputes, the sale and licensing of intellectual property assets, and associated counseling strategies.
Mark is a respected leader in the legal community and served as the President of the Boston Patent Law Association in 2009. He currently serves as Chair of the BPLA Task Force for a Satellite Office of the USPTO and as Chair of the Invented Here! program jointly run by the BPLA and Boston Museum of Science. Mark speaks frequently, addressing a variety of intellectual property topics and audiences. Mark lectures in legal, business, and business school forums and was the first recipient of Suffolk University Law School’s Journal of High Technology Law Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property Law.
Mark’s technical background includes diverse engineering technologies, such as telecommunications, optics, digital signal processing, optical and electrical networking, control systems, business methods, analog and digital electronics, software, GPS systems, antennas, medical devices, mechanical devices, fuel cells, and other renewable energy sources.
Mark takes a partnership approach to client matters, often personally serving on patent committees and advising on successful and cost effective U.S. and international patent strategies aimed to support the client’s unique and specific business goals.
Mark’s clients benefit from his personal industry experience. Prior to joining the firm, Mark worked for ten years as an electrical, software, and opto-electronics engineer in the areas of R&D, design, development, testing, and field integration. He was an electrical/control systems engineer for Xinetics, Inc. (acquired by Northrup Grummun), which was a start-up manufacturer and systems integrator of deformable mirrors (used in the growing field of real-time adaptive optics); a control systems electrical engineer for Itek Optical Systems, a division of Litton Industries; and an electrical and software engineer for Raytheon Company. Mark offers hands-on experience in analog and digital hardware, digital signal processors, hybrid micro-electronics, software engineering, servo control systems, process control systems, data capture and processing, signal processing, opto-electronics, digital networks, and telecommunications.
Publications
Professional Associations
- Boston Patent Law Association
Chair of the Task Force for a Satellite Office of the USPTO
Chair of the Invented Here! Program Committee
Past President (2009) - Boston IP Inn of Court
- WPI Venture Forum
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Supreme Court
