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ADJUNCT LAW FACULTY
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Kirk Teska is the managing partner of the Waltham based intellectual property law firm Iandiorio Teska & Coleman. Mr. Teska has nineteen years of intellectual property law experience.
Mr. Teska taught patent law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center and for ten years has taught classes as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Mr. Teska is a regular columnist for MASS HIGH TECH and LAWYERS WEEKLY where his columns “Patent Watch” and “IP Litigation Watch” appear monthly. Mr. Teska has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master’s degree in Systems Management, and a Juris Doctorate degree. He is a member of the patent bar, the Massachusetts bar, and the New Hampshire bar.
Mr. Teska specializes in patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, litigation of intellectual property matters, employee and consultant contracts, confidential disclosure agreements, government contracts, and other related areas of intellectual property. His clients include many start-up companies, engineering firms such as Foster-Miller, Inc., and also larger corporations such as GE, LoJack, L3 Communications, PerkinElmer, and Raytheon. Mr. Teska secures and litigates patents in nearly all areas of engineering including optics, circuits, mechanical systems, processor based systems, composites, computer software, the internet, and business methods. Mr. Teska has written articles for and has been published in Trial Magazine; The Computer Law Reporter; The Boston Business Journal; Mass High Tech; The Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (JPTOS); IEEE Spectrum; New England In-House; the ACC Docket; Mechanical Engineering Magazine; and Contract Management Magazine. Mr. Teska co-authored a chapter in two books: The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship both published by John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Teska was also a Director of the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE) and a past Chairman of the IEEE Entrepreneurs’ Network. His book "Patent Savvy" was published in the fall of 2007 by Nolo Press. His second book “Patent Project Management” is expected to be published in 2011.
Degrees:
BS, Montana State University; MS, University of Southern California; JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center
Subjects:
Drafting Patent Claims; Software Law
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PATENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT (ASME Publications, forthcoming 2011 )
PATENT SAVVY FOR MANAGERS (Nolo Press, 2007)
Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (John Wiley & Sons, 2007) (co-author)
Chapter 10: The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (John Wiley & Sons, 3d ed., 2004) (co-author)
Who Makes the Patent Calls?, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE (2010) (April)
The FUD Factor, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE (2010) (March)
What Makes You An Inventor?, IEEE SPECTRUM (2009) (August)
Reigning In Patent Costs, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE (2009) (August)
Patent Slugfest, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE (2009) (April)
Strategic Patenting, IEEE SPECTRUM (2009) (February)
The Top 10 IP Cases of 2008, MASS. LAW. WKLY (2009) (January 19)
Business-Method Patents--Down But Not Out?, IEEE SPECTRUM (2008) (December 8)
Trade Secrets 101, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE (2008) (October)
Are Generic Claims Invalid?, 90 J. PAT. & TRADEMARK OFF. SOC'Y 609 (2008)
The Pitfalls of Patent Searches, IEEE SPECTRUM (2008) (May)
What Can You (Legally) Download From the Web?, IEEE SPECTRUM (2008) (April)
Software Patents 101, IEEE SPECTRUM (2008) (March)
Hired to Invent, IEEE SPECTRUM (2008) (February)
The Top 10 Patent Cases of 2007, MASS. LAW. WKLY. (2007) (December 31)
The Foreign Patent Money Trap, IEEE SPECTRUM (2007) (December)
How High is the Patent Bar Now?, IEEE SPECTRUM (2007) (October)
Ordinary Innovation, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE (2007) (September)
Patents Objects and Realizations, 89 J. PAT. & TRADEMARK OFF. SOC'Y 130 (2007)
Patently Obvious, IEEE SPECTRUM (2006) (December)
The Story Behind the Blackberry Case, IEEE SPECTRUM ON-LINE (2006) (March)
IP Missteps in Government Contracts, CONTRACT MANAGEMENT MAGAZINE (2006) (March)
Does 4 Include 3?, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE 32 (2006) (January)
Managing the High Costs of Patents, ACC DOCKET 31 (2005) (May)
The Dark Secret of Rail Trails, THE FREEMAN-IDEAS ON LIBERTY 11 (2004) (December)
Control Means What?, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE 16 (2004) (July)
Patent Literacy for the Corporate Counsel, ACC DOCKET 95 (2004) (April)
The Problem with Provisionals, IEEE SPECTRUM MAGAZINE 44 (2003) (June)
The False Security of Continuation-In-Part Applications, 83 :3 J. PAT. & TRADEMARK OFF. SOC'Y 223 (2003)
Federal Court Jurisdiction over Settlement Agreements, TRIAL MAGAZINE (1994) (June)
Computer Software Quality Assurance Meets Computer Software Copyright Litigation, COMPUTER L. REP. (1993) (August)
Problems Are Our Business, PROCEEDINGS OF THE U.S. NAVAL INSTITUTE (1988) (October)
Columnist, "IP Litigation Watch", MASS. LAW. WKLY. ()
Columnist, Monthly Column "Patent Watch", MASS HIGH TECH ()
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Mr. Kirk Teska
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108-4977
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