Collins, Harold R.

Larissa Park is a counsel in the Intellectual Property Department. She joined the firm in 2008.

Practice

Ms. Park’s practice focuses on counseling clients to identify and protect their intellectual property with an emphasis on strategically building their patent portfolios. Ms. Park also is involved in intellectual property litigation.

With respect to patent advice and prosecution, Ms. Park has written and prosecuted patent applications in a wide range of technology areas including: nanotube devices, silicon processing, battery systems, optical systems, cellular networks, computer databases, business methods, options trading, and wireless positioning systems.

Ms. Park has experience with patent litigation in the Federal Courts involving various aspects of cryptography, semiconductor devices, digital cameras, and wireless networks.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Park was an associate at another firm in Boston, where she prosecuted patent portfolios before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and foreign patent offices related to fuel cells, medical devices, optics, electronics, business methods, electrochemical capacitors, semiconductor processing and thermal printing. She participated in three patent litigation matters involving electrical and medical devices in US District Court and conducted freedom to operate searches related to nanotechnology and medical devices.

Ms. Park also participated in the Women’s Bar Foundation’s Battered Women’s Program, where she represented a client in her divorce proceedings before the Middlesex County Probate Court.

During her undergraduate studies in physics, Ms. Park was a research assistant in the Synchrotron at Cornell University and in Chemistry Department at the University of Pittsburgh. As a research assistant, she created computer programs to monitor vacuum pump effectiveness in the particle accelerator chamber, repaired vacuum system malfunctions, researched reaction mechanics of excited helium and carbon monoxide and presented her research at The National Conference of Undergraduate Research in 2000 and 2001.

Professional Activities

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Women's Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Boston Bar Association

Publications

• Baron, M.; Bifano, L: “Patents and the High Court: When Can the Use of a Patent be Enjoined,” INNOVATION: America’s Journal of Technology Commercialization , April-May 2006
• Bifano, L. et al. “U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Patent Holders are no Longer Presumed to Have Market Power in Antitrust Tying Cases-Reversing Prior Rule,” Antitrust & Competition/Intellectual Property Alert (2006)