Mark is a director and chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Mark focuses his practice on counseling clients and assisting them in protecting their intellectual property rights in the United States and foreign countries. His experience spans a wide range of intellectual property areas, including domestic and international trademarks, development agreements and licensing of software, trade secrets, domain name disputes and other Internet-related issues, copyrights, confidentiality agreements and litigation related to intellectual property rights. Mark is recognized as a leading intellectual property attorney with an extensive practice representing regional, national and international businesses, with a particular focus in trademark matters.
Mark received his Masters of Intellectual Property from the University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center), J.D. cum laude from Michigan State University (formerly Detroit College of Law) and B.S. from the University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
Recognition
•Best Lawyers of America 2020 (Copyright Law, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Trademark Law)
•2018 Lawyer of the Year (Litigation - Intellectual Property) by Best Lawyers in America
•fellow, New Hampshire Bar Foundation
•Boston's Best Lawyers (Intellectual Property Law)
•New England Super Lawyers (Intellectual Property Law)
•Who's Who Legal USA: Trademarks
•BV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
•New Hampshire Union Leader's Forty Under 40 Business Leaders (2005), awarded citation from Governor Lynch
•Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Graduate (Class of 1998)
Articles & Presentations
•Union Leader: KNOW THE LAW: Trademark and Logo Infringements - 01/2010
•New Domain Name Dispute Policy a Boon to Trademark Owners
•Protecting the look and feel of your website: Intellectual Property Considerations
•Maximize The Intellectual Property Rights in Your Domain Name - Use it as a Trademark/Service Mark
•PATENT 101 - When Should You File Your Patent Application?
•To Link Or Not To Link - That Is The Question
•The Best Kept Secret - Is a Trade Secret!
•How To Protect Trade Secret Information In Computer Programs When Seeking Copyright Registration
•Selecting Good Trademarks
•Global Trademark Strategy - European Community Trademark
