Timothy M. Murphy

Clients benefit from Tim’s scientific experience across a wide range of technologies, such as:

• Mechanical and electromechanical devices, including medical devices
• Networks and computer-related inventions, such as secure electronic commerce
• A variety of life science technologies, including nucleic acids, proteins, cells, and pharmaceuticals

Tim also provides guidance to clients to help ensure their products do not infringe third-party patents and how to successfully design around third-party patents. Tim conducts due diligence on intellectual property issues arising from corporate transactions and is well-versed in clearance studies and clearance opinions to protect clients from patent infringement allegations.

Notable Experience and Client Impact

• McGuire et al. v. Schmieding (lead attorney)
  Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
• Thompson et al. v. Normand et al.(lead attorney)
  Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
• University of Western Australia, v.Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden (lead attorney)
  Patent Trial and Appeal Board

• Med-El Elektromedizinische Geräte GmbH v. Sonova AG
  Patent Trial and Appeal Board

• Ingenico Inc. v. Ioengine, LLC
  Patent Trial and Appeal Board

• Kotowski et al. v. Mastronardi et al.
  Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
• In re U.S. Patent No. 6,835,887 (Activision Publishing, Inc.), In re U.S. Patent No. 6,369,313 (Activision Publishing, Inc.), In re U.S. Patent No. 6,225,547 (Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.)
  Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings, USPTO
• Ivera Medical Corp. v. Catheter Connections, Inc.
  United States District Court for the Southern District of California
• Catheter Connections, Inc. v. Ivera Medical Corp.
  United States District Court for the District of Utah
• Network Appliance, Inc. v. BlueArc Corporation
  United States District Court for the Northern District of California
• Amgen, Inc. v. Hoffman-La Roche Inc.
  United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Tim is active in many professional organizations, including:

• Intellectual Property Law Section of the Boston Bar Association (BBA), past co-chair
• Intellectual Property Law Committee of the BBA, past co-chair
• Education Committee of the BBA, past chair
• Computer and Internet Law Committee of the BBA, past co-chair
• Boston Bar Journal, past member of the Board of Editors
• Boston Bar Foundation, Society of Fellows
• Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE | New England), Curriculum Advisory Committee – Business & Commercial Law, member
• MCLE | New England, 11^th-16^th and 19^th-24^th Annual IP Law Conferences, co-chair

Prior to joining Nutter, Tim was a partner and the PTAB Litigation Chair at a New England-based intellectual property law firm. Before that, he worked in the legal department at IBM in the California and New York offices.

Tim completed a joint engineering / law program at Columbia University, where he earned a degree in mechanical engineering with honors from Tau Beta Pi, the oldest engineering honor society in the United States.