Douglas Kline, a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department, represents clients involved in intellectual property litigation and other types of disputes, with particular emphasis on patent infringement cases. Mr. Kline serves as a leader of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
WORK FOR CLIENTS
Mr. Kline has served as lead trial counsel in cases throughout the United States involving a wide range of technologies, including software for remote access, encryption, financial services, document generation and optical character recognition; fiber optic communication methods and systems; next generation DNA sequencing, immunoassays, therapeutic compositions and methods; medical devices; building material and hardware; and semiconductor manufacturing methods. He has tried numerous cases to verdicts before judges and juries and has argued before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and other courts of appeal.
Mr. Kline has won multimillion-dollar jury verdicts of willful patent infringement and has defeated claims against clients in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He has coordinated and overseen the execution of multi-district litigation in the United States and Europe, and his expertise has been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, IP Law & Business, MIT Technology Review and Corporate Legal Times, along with the influential technology news wire IDG News Service.
Mr. Kline also regularly advises companies, investors and underwriters concerning intellectual property issues and infringement risks germane to enterprise transactions. Mr. Kline advises clients regarding technology transfer, including the negotiation and drafting of all forms of related agreements such as patent licenses and technology development and license agreements. Mr. Kline also works with clients to coordinate patent portfolio development strategies both in the United States and abroad.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2005, Mr. Kline was a partner at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in Boston, where he chaired the Patent and Intellectual Property Practice Group and Intellectual Property Litigation Group.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Kline is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas; the U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition, he has been admitted pro hac vice to federal courts throughout the country. Mr. Kline is registered to practice with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
RECOGNITION
Mr. Kline has been named by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading lawyer in the field of Intellectual Property every year since 2004. He similarly has been identified as a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer” every year since 2004, including being cited as one of the top 100 lawyers in Boston. He has been named to the list of Best Lawyers in America in the field of Intellectual Property Litigation, and he recently was named to IAM Patent Litigation 250 list: The World’s Leading Patent Litigators.