Lee Carl Bromberg

Lee Bromberg is co-founder of Bromberg & Sunstein and chairs our Litigation Practice Group.

One of our nation’s leading intellectual property litigators and an accomplished trial strategist, Lee has successfully handled a wide range of technology-based disputes, including numerous patent infringement actions, and trademark, copyright, trade secret, unfair competition and related cases in high technology areas. Lee’s recent work as trial counsel led to one of the largest IP verdicts of the year in Massachusetts and the largest verdict in the following year. At the same time, he also obtained a multi-million dollar recovery for his client in a technology license arbitration.

Experience

Lee was lead trial attorney for the plaintiff First Act in a suit for false advertising in violation of the Lanham Act, commercial disparagement and interference with contractual relations. The jury verdict of $20.7 million was “the largest financial judgment in music industry history,” according to MusicTrades Magazine. The next year, Lee teamed with Kaye Scholer of New York to obtain a $65 million patent infringement verdict for Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. against Eli Lilly and Company; the largest verdict of the year in the state.
He obtained a technology license arbitration award well into eight figures, including an award of attorney fees, and upheld it against challenge in the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
He prevailed in a patent infringement case for a major medical device manufacturer, which also protected a multi-million dollar licensing program.
He obtained dismissal of patent infringement charges against a national manufacturer of power converters.
He has had extensive experience in presenting complex technical and scientific subject matter to courts and to juries and has achieved outstanding results in a number of cases. For example, in a 1990s patent infringement case, Lee won a $25 million dollar judgment for willful patent infringement. In another case, he secured a jury verdict denying any recovery on a claim for $11.5 million in patent infringement damages.
Lee's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, in which he has represented numerous national companies. Specific patent cases in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry, electronics, software and other disciplines have involved technologies including electric motors, consumer electronic appliances, mechanical compression packing, road marking devices, image processing systems, voice recognition systems, CAD/CAM software, telephone circuitry and call routing systems, web site operating software, printing press technology, polymer plastics, intravenous valves and equipment, ACL surgical techniques, chromatography, pharmaceuticals, immunochemical diagnostic devices and electrochemical biosensors.
A substantial portion of Lee's practice has also been devoted to copyright, trademark, trade secret and unfair competition litigation. Lee has represented nationally known companies in trademark and trade dress cases and has assisted a number of clients in trade secret misappropriation disputes.
He has also represented companies in commercial cases involving scientific equipment and other technical subject matter, including environmental cases.
Lee's practice also includes client counseling, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution in intellectual property matters and complex commercial matters.
In recent years Lee has served as a court-appointed discovery master for a hotly contested patent litigation. He has also testified as an expert witness on patent litigation and on trademark law and practice.
He previously served as a Special Assistant Attorney General and as Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law.

Professional and Community Involvement

Leadership positions in national, regional and specialty bar associations.
Former President, Boston Patent Law Association.
Trustee, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.
Former Councilor and Litigation Section Chair of the Boston Bar Association.
Fellow and Former Trustee, Boston Bar Foundation
Speaker, Panel Organizer, American Bar Association
Member, Speaker, American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Board Member, Do the Write Thing.
Board of Directors, Boston Baroque.
Former President and Board Member, All Newton Music School, Inc.

Honors

Received highest peer review rating (AV) from Martindale Hubbell, based on a survey of other lawyers and judges in the community.
Named by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston magazine in 2006 and 2007 as among the top 100 lawyers in Massachusetts.
In 2005, Lee was named one of The Best Lawyers in America by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston magazine. Only 19 other intellectual property attorneys from Massachusetts received that honor.
In each of the past several years, Lee has been named a "Super Lawyer" in the field of intellectual property in Massachusetts, which is limited to the top 5 percent of attorneys in each state, as chosen by their peers and through independent research.
In 2007 and 2008, Lee was ranked as one of America's Leading Lawyers for Business by Chambers USA.
For each of the past several years, Lee has been named to Marquis’ Who's Who in Finance and Business.

Bar and Court Admissions

Lee is admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts and New York, and to the following federal courts: District of Massachusetts, Eastern District of New York, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of Texas, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth and Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.
Lee has been specially admitted to handle cases in courts throughout the country including federal district courts for the Central District of California, Northern District of California, Southern District of California, District of Columbia, District of Connecticut, Southern District of Florida, Northern District of Georgia, Northern District of Illinois, District of Kansas, District of Minnesota, District of New Hampshire, District of New Jersey, Western District of New York, Middle District of North Carolina, Northern District of Ohio, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Western District of Texas.

Click here to listen to Lee's recent interview by Sky Radio on protecting intellectual property assets in the global economy.

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