- American University, Washington College of Law, J.D.
- University of Maryland, B.S.E.E.
Lawrence B. Goodwin is Of Counsel in the Firm’s Intellectual Property & Brand Management Practice Group where he specializes in patent application preparation, prosecution, and related counseling. He began his career in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has significant experience in patent preparation and prosecution. Although Mr. Goodwin also has significant litigation experience, having been lead trial counsel in numerous jury and bench trials throughout the country, Mr. Goodwin’s services are now devoted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Goodwin’s work has been acclaimed by the federal bench, his colleagues and industry. During his career, Mr. Goodwin has collected over a quarter billion dollars for his clients. Mr. Goodwin also has served as a court-appointed Special Master in patent infringement litigation, and as an expert witness in patent law.
During his over 30-year career in intellectual property, Mr. Goodwin has handled matters concerning many technologies, including computer software, microprocessor architecture and operating systems, communications (including CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, spread spectrum, complex modulation techniques), life sciences (including PCR, thermal cycling, and pulse oximetry), control systems, circuits, RF receiver front ends, secure transactions and encryption techniques, optical communications, optical disc recording and playback, magnetic storage, digital and analog signal processing, semiconductor design, fabrication and chemistry, thin film transistors, barcode scanning, radar and sonar, spectroscopy, thermal analysis, thermal printing, electrical connectors, mechanical devices, and business methods.
Mr. Goodwin is rated Martindale-Hubbell as AV® Preeminent™ (5.0 out of 5) since 1995. He is a contributing author of Anatomy of a Patent Case, prepared by the Complex Litigation Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers.*
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Rated Martindale-Hubbell as AV® Preeminent™, 1995
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