Cantor Colburn boosts IP team with five hires
US law firm Cantor Colburn has hired three partners and two counsel in a bid to strengthen its litigation and patent practices.
Vincent Cichosz, John Gutkoski, and Marc Henschke will serve as partners, while Joseph Barrera and Aaron Bumgarner take up the role of counsel.
Cichosz and Barrera both have in house experience, with Cichosz having worked for eight years at General Motors and Barrera having served at both Canadian eye health products company Bausch + Lomb and LED company Universal Display Corporation.
Barrera concentrates his practice on the procurement and enforcement of global patent portfolios in consumer healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical device markets.
Focusing on patent procurement, opinion work, and transactional activities, Cichosz is experienced in system, component and control technologies in many automotive areas.
Michael Cantor, co-Managing partner of Cantor Colburn, said: “We’re adding attorneys with terrific experience in patent, transactions, and litigation, in all technologies. Clients come to us for full service IP representation and the top legal and technical talent. It’s one of the key reasons for our significant growth.”
Patent attorney Bumgarner joins from McCarter & English and will focus his practice on patent preparation, prosecution, and counseling for inventors in the chemical engineering and mechanical engineering industries.
Gutkoski and Henschke are trial attorneys. Gutkoski represents clients in life sciences and high technology matters, while Henschke has litigated patent infringement cases involving a wide variety of high technology and medical device matters.
Henschke added: “Cantor Colburn’s approach of complementing and supporting its top caliber patent litigation team with a highly experienced IP rights practice group, and one of the deepest technical benches in the country, is what made them an IP powerhouse that checked all the boxes for me and my clients.”
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