Daryl Wiesen, a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, focuses his litigation practice on intellectual property, with a particular emphasis on patent litigation and licensing disputes. He joined Goodwin Procter in 1997.
WORK FOR CLIENTS
Mr. Wiesen devotes a substantial amount of his practice to patent litigation. He has advised clients and participated in all phases of patent litigation, from initial counseling up through trial and appeal. Mr. Wiesen has worked in cases concerning diverse areas of technology, including recombinant DNA, DC to DC power converters, pharmaceutical products, formulations of pharmaceutical products, methods of manufacturing pharmaceutical products, telecommunications equipment, industrial flame sensing technology, point of care blood testing devices and siRNA.
Mr. Wiesen also represents universities in patent and licensing disputes concerning technology discovered at the universities and then out-licensed to companies for further development.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Wiesen is a member of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations. He provides pro bono services for a variety of clients, including working on behalf of a death row inmate in Ohio and seeking political asylum for a recent immigrant from Somalia.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Wiesen served as a law clerk for the Honorable Reginald C. Lindsay of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts from 1996 to 1997.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Wiesen is a member of the Massachusetts state bar. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
RECOGNITION
While in law school, Mr. Wiesen was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and author of the article “Following the Lead of Defamation: A Definitional Balancing Approach to Religious Torts.”