DOUGLAS C. DOSKOCIL

Doug Doskocil is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, where he concentrates on intellectual property litigation with particular emphasis on patents relating to electrical systems, semiconductor fabrication, computers, communication networks and software. He also serves as an instructor for Goodwin Procter’s in-house patent training program.

WORK FOR CLIENTS

Within the last few years, Mr. Doskocil has represented General Electric, Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, IBM, Vicor, Cisco, C.P. Clare, Brooktrout, GN Netcom, Progressive Technologies, State Street and Teva Pharmaceuticals in patent and other intellectual property litigation matters. He represents Applied Materials in several intellectual property cases in Asia, including patent infringement, antitrust, and criminal cases in Taiwan and Korea, and invalidity actions and related appeals in Japan.

In the United States, Mr. Doskocil recently obtained a preliminary injunction on behalf of GE against a company of former GE employees, based on trade secret violations. He has also represented Vicor in enforcing its patent portfolio against Vicor’s competitors in the power convector industry. In this effort, Mr. Doskocil led a team of Goodwin Procter attorneys and other outside counsel, and obtained the unusual remedy of a $20 million attachment against a competitor for accused infringing activities.

On the defense side, Mr. Doskocil currently represents Hewlett Packard in a patent infringement case involving notebook compete technology. He also represents General Electric in defending against a patent infringement suit involving remote controlled security/monitoring systems, and has represented Applied Materials in several patent infringement cases involving semiconductor fabrication equipment. Mr. Doskocil also provides advice to clients in pre-litigation matters, such as long-term intellectual property enforcement strategies and tactics for avoiding litigation.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Mr. Doskocil co-chairs the litigation committee of the Boston Patent Law Association, is an active member of the Sigma Xi Research Society, the American Intellectual Property Association’s Practice in the Far East committee and the Association of Old Crows. He was a founding member of the Boston College Intellectual Property Inns of Court. Mr. Doskocil also represented several individuals in pro bono cases as a volunteer Lawyer for the Arts.

MEDIA

Mr. Doskocil recently prepared the materials for and participated in a panel hosted jointly by the Bureau of National Affairs and the American Bar Association regarding patent reexaminations in litigation, presented a lecture to a Chinese delegation of lawyers and judges looking for advice on structuring their patent law system, and addressed the American Intellectual Property Association on new Taiwan patent laws. He has also been selected as an author for Inside the Minds: Understanding Patent Reform. In 2007, Mr. Doskocil arranged for and hosted two seminars for the Boston Patent Law Association, including one in which he presented a tutorial of patent litigation trends in the Eastern District of Texas.

Mr. Doskocil has served as a guest lecturer at RPI, where he taught students patent law basics and emerging trends, and has lectured at the Franklin Pierce Law Center on alternative dispute resolution for intellectual property disputes. Within his firm, Mr. Doskocil trains new and mid-level attorneys about patent invalidity strategies, claim construction proceedings and deposition skills. He also had numerous technical papers published by IEEE, DoD and various technical publications on systems engineering methodology and weapon system design, diagnostics and maintenance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Doskocil was an associate at Wolf, Greenfield and Sacks as a patent prosecutor and litigator. Before that role, Mr. Doskocil spent 11 years at Martin Marietta Automated Systems Department, formerly GE and RCA, most recently in the position of department manager of systems engineering and technology development. His responsibilities included developing and managing an entire multimillion-dollar departmental R&D program, as well as planning associated new business development activities. The R&D program included several advanced processing and software initiatives, as well as commercial ventures that were spin-offs of defense technology.

Mr. Doskocil’s technical expertise includes systems architecture design, requirements synthesis, digital/analog/rf hardware design, semiconductor manufacturing, solar cell and LCD panel manufacturing, Ada/Pascal/Assembler software design and weapon systems integration and testing. This experience has been applied to ground, air and space systems for the Department of Defense, NASA and the Department of Transportation. Mr. Doskocil holds a U.S. patent in the field of diagnostics by confidence measure assessment.

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

Mr. Doskocil is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and is a registered patent attorney. He is also admitted to the Federal District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

RECOGNITION

As an engineer, Mr. Doskocil received several technical achievement awards and two “Best Paper” awards at industry conferences.