Michael Albert

About Michael Albert

Michael Albert served as co-chair of the firm\'s Litigation Group for 15 years. His practice focuses on patent litigation, as well as trade secret, trademark, copyright, Internet and other intellectual property litigation and consulting. He has trial experience before federal and state courts across the U.S. and has prevailed in appellate practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the First and Federal Circuits and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He has also served as an arbitrator for over 200 cases through World Intellectual Property Organization and the National Arbitration Forum.Michael\'s clients include high-tech companies in the software, internet, biotechnology and engineering industries, as well as Fortune 500 retail businesses and leading research universities. Michael has litigated IP cases successfully against some of the largest law firms and corporations in the world, winning injunctive and monetary relief for a range of clients as well as defending clients successfully against bet-the-company IP claims. While at Harvard Law School, Michael served as a research assistant to Professor Laurence Tribe on constitutional and telecommunications law. He also served as a law clerk for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.Michael can be reached at m••••••@wolfgreenfield.com or 61••••••40.

Experience

1. Shareholder, Litigation Practice Group

   Wolf Greenfield

   Oct 1999 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Chaired the Litigation Practice Group of the largest Intellectual Property law firm in Massachusetts for 15 years.• Won multi-million dollar damages awards at jury trials and in settlements against large international companies.• Won $17M patent infringement settlement from Kraft for our client Keurig on the eve of trial for infringement of patent relating to brewer cartridges.• Won Massachusetts’ largest jury verdict of 2007 in a patent infringement case as lead counsel for medical device company Diomed, Inc. in a trial against two infringers of Diomed\'s patent on a method for laser vein treatment.• Obtained eight-figure settlement of multi-patent dispute between arch-rivals in a growing field of computer-based technology.• Assisted a major university and two medical device companies in asserting a successful biotechnology patent infringement case, resulting in a multi-million dollar jury award, trebled by the trial court, and upheld on appeal by the Federal Circuit.• Obtained summary judgment, sustained on appeal, in one of the leading trade dress and copyright cases in the First Circuit, as well as a seven-figure award of fees and costs.• Won permanent injunction against Fortune 500 company in complex copyright and breach of contract case, followed by successful mediation of past damages.• Obtained substantial settlement on behalf of software developer in copyright dispute against multi-billion dollar publishing company.• Defended major consumer products company in multi-patent trial and won Federal Circuit reversal of damages award.• Successfully defended Fortune 500 manufacturer against copyright infringement suit.

Education

• Harvard Law School

  Juris Doctor (J.D.)

• Harvard University

  Bachelor's Degree

• University of California, Berkeley

  Master's Degree