Charles Sanders, a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, concentrates on intellectual property litigation, with particular emphasis on patent infringement matters. Mr. Sanders has represented clients in patent, trademark and other intellectual property disputes throughout the United States and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Sanders is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, Boston Bar Association and the ITC Trial Lawyers Association.
MEDIA
Mr. Sanders is the author of “At Issue: Local Telephone Competition (With ruling, a chance to implement act’s promise),” which appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe (2002). He has also authored articles in the National Law Journal (“‘Enzo’ Raises the Bar for Written Descriptions,” 2002, co-author) and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (“A Step Toward Competition in Local Telephone Service: AT&T Corp. v. Iowa Utilities Board,” 12 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 647, 1999).
Mr. Sanders’ other legal publications include “Options for Enforcement of ITC Exclusion Orders,” IP Advisor (February 2010); “Getting the Remedy You Want from the ITC,” Intellectual Property Litigation (Summer 2009, co-author); “Kyocera Changes the Landscape for Relief in the International Trade Commission,” IP Advisor (May 2009, co-author); “Top 10 ITC Developments in 2008,” IP Law360 (2008); “A Sea Change in the Federal Circuit’s Perspective,” IP Law360 (2007, co-author); “In re Seagate Technology: Closing the Gate on Willful Infringement,” IP Alert (2007, co-author); and “The One-Sale Bar to Patentability: Understanding the Doctrine’s Past, Present, and Future,” PLI’s 4th Ann. Inst. Intell. Prop. L. (1998, co-author).
Mr. Sanders presented on “Recent Developments in ITC Practice and Jurisprudence” at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association and was interviewed about the top developments at the ITC in 2008 and 2009 for Intellectual Property Lawcast.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Sanders was an associate at Fish & Richardson P.C.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Sanders is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York, and before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Ninth Circuit, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Colorado, Massachusetts, the Eastern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the Northern and Southern Districts of New York.