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Robert Plotkin Esq.

Robert Plotkin Esq.

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    About Robert Plotkin Esq.

    Practice Areas
    • Patent
    Education
    • Boston University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, May, 1996
      J.D.
      • Honors: cum laude
      • Honors: Best Brief, Stone Moot Court Competition
      • Honors: Paul J. Liacos Distinguished Scholar
      • Honors: P. Dennison Smith, Jr. Scholar
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    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, May, 1993
      S.B.
      • Major: Computer Science and Engineering
      • Honors: William L. Stewart, Jr. Award
    Classes and Seminars
    • Lecturer, Software and the Law, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA - Spring, 2004 - Present
    • "Intellectual Property Primer for Non-IP Lawyers", (Co-Presenter with Zick Rubin, Esq.), Practising Law Institute (telephone/online seminar), July 19, 2008
    • "Intellectual Property Primer for Non-IP Lawyers", (Co-Presenter with Zick Rubin, Esq.), Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, April 29, 2008
    • "Computer-Generated Inventions: Risks and Ethical Implications", MIT Technology and Culture Forum, March 6, 2008
    • "When Machines Become Creators: Computers Capable of Generating Inventions and the Implications for Law and Society", Stanford University Law School, Stanford Center for Computers and Law, November 12, 2007
    • Interviewed on The Chet Curtis Report on New England Cable News regarding Robert Plotkin, P.C.'s transition to a paperless office, May 9, 2007
    • Guest Lecture, Patent Law, "Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship", (Co-Author with Stephen Schiffman and Steven K. Gold), Olin College - Spring, 2007
    • Guest Lecture, Patent Law, "Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship", (Co-Author with Stephen Schiffman and Steven K. Gold), Olin College - Fall, 2007
    • Guest Lecture, Patent Law, "Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship", (Co-Author with Stephen Schiffman and Steven K. Gold), Olin College - Spring, 2008
    • Panel Moderator, "Legal Perspectives on Software Patents", conference entitled, MIT and Boston University School of Law, November 16, 2006 - November 17, 2006
    • "Software Patents: A Time for Change?", MIT and Boston University School of Law, November 16, 2006 - November 17, 2006
    • Panel Chair and Presenter, "A Corporate Roundtable: Converging Technologies vs. the Patent System, NanoBusiness 2006 Conference, NanoBusiness Alliance, New York, NY, May 18, 2006
    • "Reinventing Intellectual Property Protection for Software", Keynote Presentation at Intellectual Property Rights on Software: The Road Ahead, a symposium, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 20, 2005
    • "Should Computer-Created Inventions be Patentable?", Information Ethics Roundtable, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, April 29, 2005
    • "Program-Created Inventions: Software Patentability and Beyond", Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA, September 10, 2004 - September 11, 2004
    • "Computer Programs: Inventions Without Inventors?", 2004 North American Computers and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, August 4, 2004 - August 6, 2004
    • "First Amendment Protection for Computer Programs: Implications for Scientific and Academic Speech", ACLU Science, Technology, and Liberty Committee, Boston, Massachusetts, June 16, 2004
    • "Software Patents: A Proposal for Reform in Theory, Policy, and Practice", IEEE Social Implications of Technology – Boston Chapter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 2004
    • "Software Patentability and Practical Utility: What's the Use?", BILETA 2004, University of Durham, Durham, England, March 25, 2004 - March 26, 2004
    • "Professional Responsibility and the Emerging Ethics of Software Speech", Sixth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, June 27, 2003 - June 28, 2003
    • "From Idea to Action: Toward a Unified Theory of Software and the Law", "Philosophy and Computers" class, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 16, 2003
    • "A Theory of Intellectual Property Protection for Software", Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 15, 2003
    • "From Idea to Action: Toward a Unified Theory of Software and the Law", BILETA 2003, Queen Mary, University of London, Greenwich, London, April 14, 2003 - April 15, 2003
    • "Fighting Keywords: Freedom of Functional Expression in Software", 3rd International Conference on Law and Technology (Law Tech), International Society for Law and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 6, 2002 - November 8, 2002
    • "Intellectual Property and the Process of Invention: Why Software is Different", the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, Raleigh, North Carolina, June 6, 2002 - June 8, 2002
    • Panelist, "Symposium on Internet Crime", Greater Boston Police Council and Babson College, May 23, 2000
    • Panelist, Professional Liability Underwriters Society (PLUS) Seminar on Electronic Privacy, May 16, 2000
    • "Security Interests in Intellectual Property", (Co-Author with Ronald E. Myrick and John B. Pegram), Suffolk University Law School, September 26, 1997
    • "High Technology Law in the Twenty-First Century", Suffolk University Law School, September 26, 1997
    • "Whose Law Governs the Internet?" (Co-Author with Gilbert H. Hennessey), International Bar Association, May 8, 1997 - May 10, 1997
    • "Doing Business on the Internet" Conference in Ankara, International Bar Association, May 8, 1997 - May 10, 1997

    Qualifications

    Bar Admissions
    • New York, 1997
    • Massachusetts, 1996
    • U.S. District Court District of Massachusetts, 1997
    • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1999
    Other Affiliations
    • American Bar Association (Member)
    • Massachusetts Bar Association (Member)
    • Boston Bar Association (Member)
    • American Intellectual Property Law Association (Member)
    • Boston Patent Law Association (Member)
    • Association for Computing Machinery (Member)
    • Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Member)
    • Boston Bar Association, Liaison, Intellectual Property Section and Solo & Small Firm Section, 2006 - Present
    • Converging Technologies Bar Association (Member)
    • Converging Technologies Bar Association, 2005 - 2006 (Board Member)
    • Converging Technologies Bar Association, 2005 - 2006 (Chair, Intellectual Property Committee)
    Past Positions
    • V Corp Technologies, Inc., Revere Beach, MA, Contract Attorney, 1999 - 2000
    • Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., Boston, MA, Associate, 1998 - 1999
    • Fish & Richardson, P.C., Boston, MA, Associate, 1997 - 1998
    • Gensym Corporation, Cambridge, MA, Software Engineer (Contract), 1996 - 1997

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    Website:
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    1 Broadway 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142
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