Paul is a shareholder of the firm whose practice now focuses primarily on intellectual property and emerging companies. For over 20 years Paul has been the leader in Northern New England in representing public companies in public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

Paul concentrates his intellectual property practice in prosecuting patent applications, drafting non-infringement opinions and licensing technology. He also mediates disputes involving intellectual property and is on the U.S. District court Mediation Panel List. He brings the prespective of an M&A lawyer to intellectual property disputes: he'll find a way to resolve the intellectual property dispute to get the deal done. Before becoming a lawyer, Paul was an assembly language programmer when a “deck of cards” was used for something more than playing poker.

In his emerging companies practice, Paul represents both companies and venture capitalists in private placements and other financings. Paul's combination of experience in the intellectual property and securities areas positions him as sought after counsel in financings for evaluating and describing an issuer's intellectual property.

He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is the first New Hampshire Intellectual Property lawyer listed in Super Lawyers. He is also listed in Woodward/White's Best Lawyers in America in the field of Intellectual Property, and has received the Lawyer's Lawyer Award for best New Hampshire lawyer for Securities Law and Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law. He is the founder and past chairman of the Intellectual Property Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association. He also rows competitively and refuses to wear a tie.

EDUCATION:

University of Michigan Law School, Juris Doctor (Cum Laude), 1971
Yale College, Bachelor of Science (Physics) 1967

BAR ADMISSIONS:

New Hampshire
District of Columbia
Connecticut