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Robert A. Surrette
Shareholder
Email. bsurrette@mcandrews-ip.com
Tel. (312) 775-8206
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property Litigation; Patent Portfolio Development; Intellectual Property Counseling.
Education
University of Massachusetts, B.S.M.E., 1989
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.B.A., 1992
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, M.S.M.E., 1994
Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D., with high honors, 1997
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Illinois. Member of the bars of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Professional Experience
Robert A. Surrette focuses his practice on the resolution of intellectual property and technology-related disputes with an emphasis on patent, trademark, trade secret, and trade dress litigation. Specifically, Bob has extensive experience in managing and preparing complex intellectual property cases for trial, including overseeing all aspects of pre-trial discovery, procuring and supervising experts, preparing and arguing pre-trial, dispositive and post-trial motions, and participating in multi-week trials. Bob also has experience in the preparation of appellate briefs for various appellate courts.
Bob also maintains an active client counseling practice where he advises clients on the acquisition and development of intellectual property and on the structuring of transactions for the transfer of intellectual property, as well as patent portfolio development.
Bob has litigated and counseled clients with respect to such diverse technologies as balloon angioplasty catheters, implantable cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, digital jukeboxes, electronic dart boards, exhaust systems, surgical cutting tools, medical image capture systems, contact lenses, fluorescent lighting systems, and chillers.
Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Bob served as Law Clerk to the Honorable John A. Nordberg, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Bob graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law with Highest Honors in May 1997. He served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor for the Chicago-Kent Law Review and is a member of the Order of the Coif. Prior to attending law school, Bob worked for Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies, for over five years, where he held various engineering positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in Special Assistant to the Vice President, Quality Assurance and Product Integrity.
Bob currently serves as an adjunct professor in Chicago-Kent's nationally-recognized Legal Writing Program, where he teaches an upper-level writing and research class focused on intellectual property. Bob also currently serves as the Chicago-Kent Alumni Board of Directors' liaison to the Chicago-Kent Board of Overseers. Additionally, Bob served on the Alumni Board of Directors for well over ten years, including as President and Vice-President.
Bob devotes a significant amount of his time to his community. He serves on the Board of Directors for AYSO Region 210. He also coaches youth soccer in Hinsdale and youth lacrosse in Western Springs.
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