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Stephen Y. Chow

Stephen Y. Chow

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Office Phone: 617.345.3263
Location: Boston, MA
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Practice:

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
New York
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals First, Second and Federal Circuits
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and S.D.N.Y.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Experience:

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson LLP in January 2006, Stephen Chow was a partner with the firm Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP. He started practice in New York at Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine.

Over three decades of practice, Mr. Chow has developed numerous patent portfolios and strategies for chemical, electrical, information technology and life sciences enterprises, litigated patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, antitrust, unfair competition, international trade, telecommunications and e-commerce cases before state and federal courts and agencies. Mr. Chow has coordinated or served as an expert in litigation before foreign tribunals. He has also advised manufacturers, telecommunications carriers, commercial exchanges and educational, financial and research institutions on commercial, legislative and regulatory matters, particularly in internal policies and development of new services and products, as well as in early-stage financing. Mr. Chow sees himself as a strategist and trouble-shooter for technology companies in financial, governance and intellectual property disputes and development.

Appointed by Governor Weld in 1995, and reappointed by subsequent administrations, as a Massachusetts Uniform Law Commissioner, Mr. Chow served on the National Conference's drafting committees on the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (formerly UCC 2B) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act and its study committees on Internet taxation, on protection of genetic information, and discovery of electronic evidence. He was a member of Governor Cellucci's E-Government Task Force and of the Massachusetts legislature's Science and Technology Caucus.

Reporting on electronic evidence issues, Mr. Chow has acted as a special master in cases before the Massachusetts Superior Court. In 2003, he was appointed by Governor Romney to the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission, on which he served through 2005.

Since 1995, Mr. Chow has taught corporate, intellectual property and litigation practice at Suffolk University Law School, including the perennial “Counseling Technology-Leading Emerging Enterprises.” In 1997, he was elected to the American Law Institute, for which he has been active on committees on corporate, employment, intellectual property and international law.

Mr. Chow writes extensively on commercial and intellectual property law, including the treatises, E-Commerce and Communications, International Computer Law, and Law of the Internet published by Matthew Bender/LexisNexis.

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Quotes:

  • 2/12/2010, Boston Business Journal - The money question: Recession highlights long-simmering issue of costs
    Stephen Chow was quoted in this article by Mary K. Pratt.
  • 10/9/2009, Boston Herald - Phoenix sues online giant Facebook over Web technology patent
    Stephen Chow was quoted in this article by Jay Fitzgerald.
  • 9/21/2009, The National Law Journal - TestMasters agrees to pay more than $1M to settle dispute over LSAT license
    Stephen Chow was quoted in this article by Sheri Qualters.
  • 9/11/2009, E-Commerce Times - DoJ Puts Microhoo Under the Microscope
    Stephen Chow was quoted in this article by Erika Morphy.

Recent Articles and Publications:

E-Commerce and Communications
Matthew Bender/Lexis Nexis Publishing, 2002 - present
Updated semi-annually

Speaking Engagements:

Massachusetts Bar Association CLE Seminar, 4.25.2012
Location: MBA Headquarters, 20 West Street, Boston, MA
Role: Speaker
Topic: Lifecycle of a Business Part 2: Land Use/Permitting & Business Financing

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Massachusetts Bar Association CLE Seminar, 3.21.2012
Location: MBA Headquarters, 20 West Street, Boston, MA
Role: Speaker
Topic: Life Cycle of a Business Part 1: Forming a Business & Protecting Assets

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Massachusetts Bar Association House of Delegates Meeting, 3.20.2012
Location: University of Massachusetts – Lowell, MA
Role: Speaker
Topic: Uniform Law Commission, H.23 Massachusetts Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Massachusetts Bar Association Labor & Employment Section Council, 3.20.2012
Location: MBA Headquarters, 20 West Street, Boston, MA
Role: Speaker
Topic: H.23 Massachusetts Uniform Trade Secrets Act