Eric G.J. Kaviar
Top rated Intellectual Property Litigation attorney in Boston, Massachusetts
Day Pitney LLP
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property, Business Litigation
Licensed in Massachusetts since: 2007
Education: Northeastern University School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2021 - 2024 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2013 - 2020 Day Pitney LLP
One Federal StreetBoston, MA 02110 Phone: 617-345-4716 Email: Eric G.J. Kaviar Visit website
Details
As an intellectual property attorney, my job is to study, analyze, and protect peoples’ ideas. I meet and work with interesting people and learn about a wide array of companies (from start-ups to Fortune 500s),
technologies, and markets. In helping clients reach their goals, I not only consider what legal strategies are most likely to succeed, I identify what tactics appear to be the most efficient and least likely to disrupt our clients’ businesses.
First Admitted: 2007, Massachusetts
Professional Webpage: https://daypitney.com/
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Boston Patent Law Association
Verdicts/Settlements (Case Results):
- Successfully defended MStar Semiconductor at the International Trade Commission (Inv. Nos. 741/749) against claims of patent infringement brought by Thomson Licensing against LCD products containing MStar scaler chips. Thomson sought to exclude from importation a large percentage of the LCD products sold in the United States. In its opinion affirming the trial court’s finding of non-infringement, the Commission cited my arguments at trial as a basis for also awarding MStar a new trial on invalidity.
- Assisted a large consumer electronics company with the favorable settlement of a patent dispute brought in the Eastern District of Texas by a non-practicing entity.
- Helped client specializing in financial services software obtain a new trial on its patent claims, resulting in a favorable settlement.
- Lead associate on trial team that won client a judicial dissolution of an LLC in the Delaware Court of Chancery, restored control over client’s right to use intellectual property, and defeated the opposing parties’ counterclaims for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Drafted briefing that secured the strong rejection of a patent’s claims (related to a mechanical device) during an inter partes reexamination. After this rejection, the patentee/plaintiff in a co-pending litigation moved the Court to dismiss its own patent infringement claims from the litigation.
Videos:
- "Best Trial Lawyer Video Series," Interview with Eric Kaviar, Intellectual Property Law, 2011
Transactions:
- Counseled start-up companies and inventors regarding intellectual property development strategies.
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Represented the Boston Patent Law Association in connection with Amicus Briefing in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Educational Background:
- Bates College: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (1998 – 2002), Graduated with Departmental Honors in Both History and Sociology as well as Cum Laude; Academic Highlight: Successfully defended double-honors senior thesis, "Propaganda, Women and Vichy," which deployed a postmodern semiotic model to analyze the poster propaganda movements of Vichy, France; Study Abroad: Paris (Spring 2001), Studies completed with full immersion into language and culture.
- Hackley School: High School (1994 – 1998), Graduated with Honors in History.
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- During law school: (1) Taught a section of first-year Legal Practice course. Responsibilities included critiquing and evaluating students' research, writing, and oral advocacy skills. (2) Assisted Professor Margaret A. Burnham with teaching first-year Constitutional Law course. (3) Assisted Professor Stacey L. Dogan with the research and preparation of law review articles on various topics within Intellectual Property. (4) Helped Professor Peter D. Enrich prepare a Supreme Court case, Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., challenging the constitutionality of state tax credit incentives.
Office location for Eric G.J. Kaviar
One Federal Street
Boston, MA 02110
Selections
4 Years Super Lawyers
8 Years Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers: 2021 - 2024
- Rising Stars: 2013 - 2020