Robert Blasi is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department. As a patent attorney, he assists high-technology clients with open source software issues, intellectual property protection, licensing and intellectual property issues arising in corporate transactions.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
For several years Mr. Blasi has served as a judge for Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court competition and the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Blasi has written for Pulse of Technology, Global Intellectual Property Asset Management Report, and Intellectual Asset Management magazines. He recently contributed a section on international technology licensing to International Corporate Practice (PLI, Nov. 2007).
Mr. Blasi has spoken on current issues in intellectual property law, including recent issues in open source licensing and enforcement, cross-border issues in IT contracting, and restrictions on technology export, for a variety of audiences including the MIT Entrepreneurs Club and York University’s Osgoode Professional Development Program.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2005, Mr. Blasi was an associate in the Patent and Intellectual Property Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Blasi is admitted to practice in Massachusetts; the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
RECOGNITION
Mr. Blasi has been named a “Massachusetts Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine. While in law school, he was a senior editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
As a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, Mr. Blasi worked with a team of researchers to develop an automobile that could steer itself on a highway using computer vision techniques. The car operated at speeds up to 90 mph.