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Brian G. Bodine, Attorney |
206.342.6244 | Email | vCard
Seattle Office
701 Fifth Avenue
Suite 4100
Seattle, WA
98104 USA
ph: 206.342.6200
fax: 206.342.6201 |
Brian is a partner in the Seattle office whose practice is focused on patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation. Brian, who is a registered patent attorney, has practiced in numerous United States District Courts throughout the country, and he has argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has served as a court-appointed expert to address issues relating to claim interpretation, infringement, and validity. He has also been involved in interference and reexamination proceedings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office as well as trademark oppositions and concurrent use proceedings at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. He is a qualified Rule 39.1 mediator for intellectual property disputes in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Before entering private practice, Brian clerked for the Honorable Carolyn R. Dimmick, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and for the Honorable Joseph F. Baca, Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. In addition to his private practice, Brian is an adjunct Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches Patent and Trade Secret Law. He served as President of the Washington State Patent Law Association and is currently the Chair Elect on the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association.
Brian has in-depth knowledge in the following areas:
Patent infringement litigation
Trademark infringement litigation
Trade secret litigation
Complex intellectual property litigation
We are pleased to announce that Brian Bodine has been appointed the managing partner of the Seattle office.
Publications and Professional Seminars
Brian frequently speaks concerning issues of interest to the intellectual property bar. Below is a sampling of talks that Brian has given.
* Speaker at Intellectual Property for the Non-IP Attorney: Take on a Bigger Role in Intellectual Property in Your Practice! CLE where he is presenting Business and Licensing: Where Does Intellectual Property Apply?, co-sponsored by the WSBA Intellectual Property Section. Seattle, Washington, September 11, 2008.
* Speaker at The 2008 Business Law Section Midyear: Update Your Practice with Views From Leading Practitioners where he presented IP Law Update, What Every Business Attorney Needs to Know, co-sponsored by the WSBA Business Law Section. Seattle, Washington, June 5, 2008.
* Co-Chair of the 13th Annual Intellectual Property Institute; sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association, where he also moderated panel discussions relating to design patent and trade dress protection and licensing intellectual property. Seattle, Washington, March 16, 2007.
* Speaker at The 16th Annual Seattle Conference on New Developments in Technology Law where he presented Patent Reform and the Implications for Technology Companies: Who are the Winners and Losers Under the Current Proposals?, sponsored by Law Seminars International. Seattle, Washington, December 14, 2007.
* Speaker at the AIPLA Roadshow Advanced Patent Litigation where he presented Mapping the Drive: Planning to Make Discovery More Effective and Less Costly, sponsored by the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Portland, Oregon, June 22, 2007.
* Speaker at Identifying and Protecting Trade Secrets where he co-presented Trade Secret or Patent? A Painstaking but Necessary Analysis, sponsored by the American Conference Institute, San Francisco, California, June 14, 2007.
* Speaker at Intellectual Property for the Rest of Us where he presented Everything You Wanted to Know About Patent Litigation , sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Seattle, Washington, May 9, 2007.
* Speaker at Oregon Patent Law Association meeting where he presented The Federal Circuit Year in Review . Portland, Oregon, March 22, 2007.
* Co-Chair of the 12th Annual Intellectual Property Institute; sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association. March 16, 2007, Seattle, Washington.
* Speaker at Washington State Patent Law Association monthly meeting where he presented The Federal Circuit Year in Review . Seattle, Washington, January 17, 2007.
* Speaker at Managing Patent Prosecution and Litigation Workshop where he presented Responding to Patent Infringement Claims , sponsored by Law Seminars International. Seattle, Washington, November 8, 2006.
* Speaker at Intellectual Property for the Rest of Us where he presented Those Guys Are Selling Our Product! Now What Do We Do? Brian also participated in a panel discussion concerning ethics and the practice of IP law. Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Seattle, Washington, May 9, 2006.
* Speaker at At the Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law: Looking Both Ways to Avoid a Collision where he participated in a panel discussing When Does Normal IP Business Conduct Become Exclusionary and Anticompetitive?; sponsored by Seattle University School of Law. Seattle Washington, April 7, 2006.
* Moderator of panel discussion titled Litigating IP Disputes in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at the 11th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Seattle, Washington, March 24, 2006.
* Speaker at Remedies and Intellectual Property Law where he discussed remedies available in patent infringement litigation, sponsored by Seattle University School of Law. Seattle, Washington, February 24, 2006.
* Co-Chair of Joint Meeting 2005 of Washington State Patent Law Association and Oregon Patent Law Association, sponsored by the Washington State Patent Law Association. In addition to serving as Conference Co-Chair, Brian moderated a panel discussion titled Reforms to the U.S. Patent System . Stevenson, Washington, April 22-24, 2005.
* Co-Chair of the 10th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association. In addition to serving as Conference Co-Chair, Brian moderated a panel discussion concerning patent claim construction. Seattle, Washington, March 11, 2005.
* Speaker at BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2005 where he participated in a panel discussing Navigating the Ups and Downs of Drug Development and focused on The Impact of Patents in Drug Development , sponsored by Biotechnology Industry Organization. New York, New York, February 23, 2005.
* Speaker at the Association of Independent Research Institutes' 43rd Annual Meeting: Evolving Policy in American Science, where he presented Patents in the Independent Non-Profit Research World: Basics, Myth-Busting and Case-Studies , sponsored by the Association of Independent Research Institutes. Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 4, 2004.
* Speaker at Intellectual Property for the Rest of Us where he presented Patents and Small Business and participated in a panel to discuss patent claim construction, patent infringement analysis, and other intellectual property law issues, Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Seattle, Washington, October 1, 2004.
* Moderator and Organizer of Patent Litigation: A Perspective from the Bench , a panel discussion. During the discussion, Mr. Bodine questioned a panel of four United States District Court Judges concerning their views and preferences in patent infringement litigation. Sponsored by the Washington State Patent Law Association; Seattle, Washington, May 19, 2004.
* Speaker at 9th Annual Intellectual Property Institute where he participated as a panel member discussing Writing Patents with Litigation in Mind ; sponsored by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association, Seattle, Washington, April 2, 2004.
* Author (with K.M. Das) of Conflicting Canons of Patent Claim Construction: Into the Valley of Death, Intellectual Property Vol. 15, No. 1 , published by the Intellectual Property Section of the Washington State Bar Association; Winter 2004.
* Speaker at BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2004 where he participated in a panel discussing Current IP Issues: The Impact on Biotech Business and focused on Current Trends in Patent Litigation ; sponsored by Biotechnology Industry Organization; New York, New York, February 24, 2004.
* Speaker at Mining Your Patent Portfolio where he presented Bolstering Your Credibility, A Litigator's Perspective , sponsored by Law Seminars International. Seattle, Washington, August 2003.
* Speaker and Author at 5th Annual IP Law Conference on Intellectual Property Valuation & Audits: "What Do You Have & What is it Worth?" where he discussed valuation of patents, sponsored by Seattle University School of Law. Seattle, Washington, April 2002.
* Speaker at Twelfth Annual Seattle Conference on Computer Law where he presented Patents: Lessons from Recent Key Cases , sponsored by Law Seminars International; November 2001.
* Coauthor of Practical Problems and Pitfalls in Trade Secret Cases--To Avoid or Create? for the 6th Annual Intellectual Property Institute, sponsored by the Washington State Bar Association. Seattle, Washington, March 2001.
* Coauthor of Recent Federal Circuit Limitations on Patent Scope and Recent Litigation of Software Patents chapters; 1999 Patent Resources Group presentation on Software Patents, Procuring and Enforcing.
Honors and Awards
Included in "America's Leading Business Lawyers," Chambers USA, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 eds.
Included in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White Inc. 2006, 2007 eds.)
Included in list of "Top 40 Intellectual Property Law Super Lawyers" in Who's Who in Intellectual Property Law published by Washington Law & Politics magazine (2006, 2007)
Named "Super Lawyer" in Seattle legal community by Washington Law and Politics magazine (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Named "Rising Star" in Seattle legal community by Washington Law and Politics magazine (2001 and 2002)
Named in Who's Who Legal USA - Trademark Lawyers, 2006 Edition
Professional Affiliations
Washington State Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section
Executive Committee Member, 2005-present
Washington State Patent Law Association
Member, 1997-2005
Board of Directors, 2000-2005
President, 2003-2004
Co-Chair of Joint Meeting with Oregon Patent Law Association, 2005
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Federal Circuit Bar Association
Bar Admissions
Colorado
New Mexico
Washington
United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
United States District Court for the District of Colorado
United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
All State Courts in Colorado, Washington and New Mexico
Education
Montana State University
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1978
University of Puget Sound
J.D., magna cum laude, 1991
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