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Robert A. Bourque
Retired Partner
425 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3954
Phone:  (212) 455-3595
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Honors/Associations
•  Chairman, First Department Judicial Screening Committee, New York State
•  Member, State Judicial Screening Committee, New York State
•  Association of the Bar of the City of New York
•  New York State Bar Association
•  American Bar Association
•  Federal Bar Council
•  American Intellectual Property Law Association
•  Environmental Law Institute
•  American Chemical Society
•  American Association for the Advancement of Science
•  Member, Board of Directors, Environmental Advocates of New York
•  Member, Editorial Board, OnEarth Magazine (a publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council)
•  Member, Policy Committee, Scenic Hudson
Publications
•  The Supreme Court Considers Conflict Preemption Case Concerning Federal Seatbelt Regulation
•  The Supreme Court Hears Express Preemption Case Relating to Alleged Vaccine Design Defect
•  Supreme Court Finds in a “Lights” Cigarettes Case That Claims for Violation of a State Statutory Duty Not to Deceive Are Not Preempted by the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act
•  Supreme Court Hears Its Second Significant Preemption Case This Term
•  The Supreme Court Revisits the Preemption of State Law Consumer Protection Claims
•  Supreme Court Bars State Common Law Claims Challenging Medical Devices with FDA Pre-Market Approval
•  In re Seagate: A New Standard for Willful Patent Infringement
•  eBay: The Final Word?
•  The Changing Landscape of Patent Remedies after eBay
•  KSR v. Teleflex: A New Flexible Regime for Obviousness
•  Microsoft v. AT&T: Limiting the Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Patent Law
•  The Supreme Court Rejects Automatic Permanent Injunctions in Patent Cases in eBay v. MercExchange
•  In Phillips v. AWH, the En Banc Federal Circuit Refocuses Claim Construction on a Patent's Intrinsic Evidence
•  International Registration of Trademarks: The Madrid System
•  The Martha Graham Cases: Recent Dispute Warns Companies To Secure Their Intellectual Property Rights
•  Has The Federal Circuit Finally Sunk Submarine Patents? The Doctrine Of “Prosecution Laches” Rises Again and May Render The Lemelson Patents Unenforceable - Symbol Technologies, Inc. v. Lemelson Medical, Education & Research Foundation, L.P.
•  The Year in Review: Courts Expand ISP Protection in 2001, But Pitfalls Remain
•  The Year in Review: Courts Expand ISP Protection in 2001, but Pitfalls Remain
•  Domain Names: Protecting Against Pirates
•  Tilting at the Windmills of Inherency
•  New .Biz and .Info Domain Names
•  Protecting Customers’ Private Data from Misappropriation By Institutional Identity Thieves
•  Protecting Private Data from Misappropriation by Internet “Identity Thieves"
•  Dealing With Liability Risks To Owners of Computers Used in Denial of Service Attacks
•  Domain Names - New Legislation
Speaking Engagements
•  Linda H. Martin and Robert A. Bourque Participate in ACI’s Conference on Litigating and Resolving Advertising Disputes
June 25, 2010
Clerkships
•  Hon. Robert W. Sweet, S.D.N.Y., 1982-1983
Education
•  Columbia Law School, 1982 J.D.
Columbia Law Review
•  Middlebury College, 1975 B.A.
cum laude; With Honors in Chemistry
•  University of Rochester, 1980 PhD.



•  Litigation
•  Intellectual Property
•  IP Litigation
•  Product Liability and Mass Tort
•  Environmental Practice
 
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