Rory focuses on aligning a client’s business goals with its intellectual property strategy. Whether his client is a startup, a university or research institution, mid-size company, or Fortune 100 company – all of which he represents – Rory appreciates one necessarily informs the other. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to developing an IP portfolio (patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets) and a strategy for going to market with product. This may mean utilizing expedited patent procedures for some clients while in other instances a more measured approach to IP protection may be appropriate.

Clients rely on Rory to lay the foundation for their patent portfolio, build it out strategically, and work with them to evaluate patents and other IP in conjunction with product launches and buy or sell-side IP due diligence. 

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A patent without a business strategy is just a stack of paper. A client’s business goals necessarily drive the patent strategy—and IP more generally.”
Credentials

Education

  • Suffolk University Law School, J.D., with distinction
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), B.S., mechanical engineering

Bar Admissions

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  • Massachusetts

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
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