Birnbaum & Godkin, LLP - Attorneys at Law

Ms. Longobucco's practice focuses on business and intellectual property litigation, including actions involving patent, copyright and trademark infringement, false advertising, technology licensing, and intra-corporate disputes. She has represented a broad variety of clients ranging from individual inventors and entrepreneurs to universities and major hardware and software companies. Ms. Longobucco has practiced in New York and Washington, D.C. as well as in Boston and has litigated cases throughout the United States in both state and federal courts and in arbitration.

General Business Litigation and Arbitration Matters

• Representation of a biotechnology company in a dispute with a contract manufacturer
• Representation of a software company in a contract dispute with vendor
• Representation of a high technology company in a dispute with a former officer concerning a stockholder agreement
• Representation of a public company in an ERISA dispute with former employee
• Representation of a company in a case alleging breach of a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement
• Representation of an individual in an arbitration involving accounting malpractice
• Representation of a Massachusetts company in an arbitration proceeding involving the valuation of two closely-held corporations in the U.S. and France
• Representation of a Boston-based start-up technology against claims involving ownership of its technology

Patent Litigation Cases

• Representation of a Boston-based military supply company against claims that a product infringes two patents
• Representation of patent licensor in a case alleging breach of a license agreement involving golf club technology and defense of a counterclaim alleging patent invalidity
• Representation of a Japanese company against claims of patent infringement involving computer games
• Representation of a Japanese company against claims that its device used to perform laser eye surgery infringes two patents
• Representation of a Boston-based biotechnology company against charges that it obtained patents without naming the correct inventors, and a multitude of related claims alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty
• Representation of a Massachusetts inventor sued as an "involuntary plaintiff" in a patent infringement case in California

Professional Experience

Birnbaum & Godkin LLP, 2008 - present

Demeo & Associates, P.C., 2005 - 2008

G&L Law Group LLC, 2003 - 2005

Bromberg & Sunstein LLP, 2000 - 2003

Shaw Pittman LLP 1994 - 2000

Coudert Brothers, 1991 - 1994

Education

J.D., summa cum laude, Boston University School of Law Note Editor, Boston University Law Review, 1990-91

A.B., Bryn Mawr College

Professional Affiliations

Boston Bar Association (Co-Chair, Computer and Internet Committee of the Intellectual Property Committee, beginning September 2008)

Boston Patent Law Association (Co-Chair, Copyright Law Committee, March 2007 to present)

Bar Admissions

New York, 1992

United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1992

Virginia, 1995

District of Columbia, 1995

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1995

Massachusetts, 2001

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 2001

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2002