Intellectual Property Attorney Mark F. Chadurjian has joined the northern New England law firm of Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC after more than 30 years working in business and intellectual property law at the IBM Corporation in Vermont and New York. He joins the firm of counsel and will practice in the Burlington Office.
“Attracting Mark Chadurjian to our practice is a great accomplishment for the IP Group,” said Lawrence H. Meier, chair of the group at DRM. “He has extensive experience in all aspects of IP and business law, is an experienced manager of people, and understands the hardware and software industries in great depth. His contributions add a new dimension to our already strong IP practice.”
After graduating from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, Chadurjian began his career at IBM’s Essex Junction facility in 1984, where he was responsible for IP-related issues for memory and semiconductor development and negotiated process licenses with alliance partners. He moved into management in 1992, supervising the IBM Burlington IP department working in patent protection, patent assertions and technology licenses pertaining to semiconductor technologies. He was named division counsel for the IBM Microelectronics Group in 2003, with supervisory responsibilities for teams in Vermont and New York, and became senior counsel for IBM’s Software Group in 2006.
Chadurjian has achieved a series of significant accomplishments in his professional life, most notably in his leadership, along with other senior members of IBM’s worldwide IP law department, in enabling IBM to receive the most patents in the U.S. for 21 years in a row, and hundreds of millions of dollars annually through joint development agreements and patent and technology licenses. At DRM, he will focus on counselling clients on building strategic portfolios of IP rights, particularly patents; he will help clients deal with third party assertions of infringement of IP rights; and he will assist clients in obtaining value from their IP portfolios. He is particularly interested in helping software companies ensure that third party and open source code modules incorporated into their products do not impede their future business opportunities.
Downs Rachlin Martin is a full-service law firm with more than 60 attorneys and six offices in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. DRM provides legal services to local, national and international clients in practice areas that include bankruptcy and business restructuring, business law, captive insurance, energy and telecommunications, health law, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and land use, environmental law, tax law and trusts and estates. The firm represents clients in legislative, regulatory and public affairs through the Government and Public Affairs group. DRM is the exclusive member firm in Vermont for Lex Mundi – the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience throughout the United States and in more than 100 countries worldwide.