Seminar: The New Patent Law and What it Means to You

Speaker Bio: David E. Boundy

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David E. Boundy is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Intellectual Property at Cantor Fitzgerald in Boston. Previously he was in private practice with Fish & Richardson, Shearman & Sterling, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. In June, 2007, Mr. Boundy argued as the designated representative of 25 high technology companies at a White House regulatory review of the Patent Office's proposals to limit continuation practice and complexity of claims, and led teams that convinced the Office of Management and Budget to block overreaching regulatory changes sought by the Office.

Mr. Boundy has lawyered the intellectual property portions of dozens of deals, with total value over $10 billion, including formations, financing rounds, mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, and refinancings. Mr. Boundy has represented startups through their formative stages, investors who are studying companies' patents to decide whether or not to invest, and in arranging financing. In litigation matters, Mr. Boundy defended IBM in a non-practicing entity suit, and Exxon, Shell, Texaco, and Bloomberg LP. Mr. Boundy has also represented a number of small and startup companies who used their patents to grow their businesses.

Mr. Boundy's first career was as a computer engineer, building compilers, operating systems, diagnostics, and process control systems at Apollo Computer and others during the Massachusetts Rte. 128 period. Mr. Boundy has a J.D. from Columbia University, New York, graduate studies at M.I.T., Cambridge MA, an M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, and a B.S. triple major in mathematics, physics, and computer science from Hope College, Holland MI.

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