Bruce D. Sunstein

Bruce D. Sunstein is a co-founder of Bromberg & Sunstein and heads the Patent Practice Group. His strategic approach to intellectual property has enabled a wide range of enterprises to establish dominant patent positions in their markets. Technologies regularly involved in Bruce's practice include bioinformatics, electronic circuits and systems, computer hardware and software, communications and speech, biomedical devices, bio-pharmaceuticals and mechanical devices.

Experience

• Broad focus on both intellectual property and business representation of enterprises that have a substantial component of intellectual property.
• Provides strategic advice for development and enforcement of intellectual property rights and for the structure and implementation of technology-based business transactions.
• Experience as expert witness, and as arbitrator, in intellectual property disputes.
• Obtained patents in a wide range of matters including speech recognition and coding systems, neuromedical measurement devices, arthroscopic surgical instruments, ultrasonic bone densitometers, infusion pumps, gene expression assays and indices, polysaccharide-based compositions and methods, devices for analysis of single-bit polymorphisms, data compression software, graphic accelerators, computer-based statistical representation systems and methods, microprocessor-controlled transportation systems, high-performance document scanners, x-ray cargo inspection systems, radio range detection systems, athletic shoes, interactive television systems, fuel nozzles, advanced ceramic compositions and methods, business methods and magnetic recording systems.

Professional and Community Involvement

• Speaks nationally on intellectual property law and business strategy.
• Authored numerous papers on intellectual property matters.
• Named co-inventor in a business method patent, number 6,985,887, covering methods for assisting in the prevention of identity theft.
• Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Boston Patent Law Association, Licensing Executives Society, American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Honors

• Named one of the five best intellectual property lawyers in Boston by Boston magazine (Oct. 2002) and the only one cited for patent prosecution skills.
• Named by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston magazine in 2006 as among the top 100 lawyers in Massachusetts, as a "Super Lawyer" in the field of intellectual property 2004-2006 in Massachusetts and 2007 in New England, a category limited to the top 5 percent of attorneys in each region, as chosen by their peers and through independent research.

Bar and Court Admissions

• California, 1973; Massachusetts, 1977; United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1974; United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 1973; United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1978; United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1973; First Circuit, 1978; Federal Circuit, 1982; United States Tax Court, 1977; and Supreme Court of the United States, 1977.