Brian B. Shaw

Brian Shaw’s expertise is in matters relating to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He prepares and prosecutes patent applications, prepares patentability opinions, patent infringement opinions, and counsels on and prepares licensing and technology transfer agreements. Brian’s experience includes:

• A diversified practice including computer law; mechanical intellectual property, including sealing technologies, heat transfer, photocopying, and sheet-cutting technologies; biomedical technology including immunoassay evanescent wave guide technology and blood-flow sensing and measuring; new media law and international intellectual property.
• Identifying and clearing products through infringement and design-around issues.
• Negotiating proprietary technology transfers for the commercialization of technology, including transfers between institutes of higher education and faculty, as well as institutes of higher education and startups.

PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

• Past President, Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, Monroe County Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, California State Bar Association
• Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
• Member, Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association
• Member, International Trademark Association

HONORS & AWARDS

• Named as Best Lawyers^® 2021 Litigation - Patent “Lawyer of the Year” in Rochester, NY
• Named as Best Lawyers^® 2019 Litigation - Patent “Lawyer of the Year” in Rochester, NY
• Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America^© for Copyright Law;  Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Patent; Patent Law
• Named to the Daily Record’s Power 20 in Intellectual Property list, 2021
• Recipient, Donald Warren McCrosky Award for scholarly achievement in Mechanical Engineering, Yale University

Interests and Other Activities

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NEWS

Press Releases

• Michael J. Berchou and Brian B. Shaw Named to Local “Power 20” Intellectual Property List, October 29, 2021

• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Recognized in 2022 Best Lawyers in America© and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, August 19, 2021
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers In America 2020, August 15, 2019
• Harter Secrest & Emery Attorneys Named to 2019 Upstate New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars Lists, August 14, 2019

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author, "Copyright in the Age of Photocopiers, Word Processors and the Internet," Change magazine, Nov/Dec 2003
• Author, "Copyright Issues," Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 1993-1998

PRESENTATIONS

• Frequent speaker, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and other venues, on intellectual property and the Internet.