Paul D. Sorkin is a partner with the firm and has over fifteen years of experience preparing, prosecuting and maintaining patent and trademark portfolios for corporations of all sizes as well as for individual inventors. He has extensive expertise in preparing patent applications in the software, electrical, electromechanical, and electronic arts. He has also prepared numerous pre-filing patentability studies and has often been called upon to assess questions of patent validity and patent infringement. Mr Sorkin has also been involved in due diligence investigations during his career.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Sorkin was a partner at another intellectual property law firm in Boston. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sorkin worked as an Associate General Counsel in the Patent Law Department at Sun Microsystems, Inc. for four years overseeing a portfolio of patents in areas including networking devices and storage systems prior to that, was employed as a patent associate at intellectual property law firms located in Boston and Washington, DC.

Before becoming a patent attorney, Mr. Sorkin worked in the high tech industry for approximately eight years. At Data General, Mr. Sorkin worked as a test engineer designing, implementing, and supporting test equipment (hardware and software), reviewing product designs for testability and manufacturability, and coordinating test plans and capital spending budgets. Mr. Sorkin is able to apply his years of practical business and engineering expertise to the intellectual property matters he handles on behalf of his clients.

Mr. Sorkin holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, with High Honors, from Rutgers University College of Engineering (1982) and a J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School (1993). His academic honors include Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. Mr. Sorkin is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts. He is a member of the Boston Patent Law Association. Mr. Sorkin has been a guest lecturer on electrical patent claims drafting at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH.

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