Practice:

• Business Litigation
• Canada Practice
• Intellectual Property / SciTech
• Schools & Colleges

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Experience:

Mr. Ball joined Burns & Levinson in September of 2007 after interning in the firm's Intellectual Property/SciTech Group. In his day to day role at Burns and Levinson, Mr. Ball serves as a business and legal advisor, counseling clients on protecting, defending, and exploiting their intellectual property. He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and regularly handles issues related to patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. His practice includes advising clients in intellectual property protection, litigation, transactions, and licensing matters.

Mr. Ball comes to Burns and Levinson with several years of experience in the high-tech industry. Before attending law school, he first worked in information technology consulting and later designed and developed project management and collaboration software for a provider of web-based software.

At Vermont Law School he was a Merit Scholar and earned certification in general practice for participating in an intensive two-year clinical program at the school. During law school he clerked for the Honorable Rita Flynn Villa in Vermont as well as in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• Boston Patent Law Association
• Boston Bar Association
• Licensing Executives Society
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, National Honor Society for Computer Sciences

Additional Information:

• Mr. Ball serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.
• Mr. Ball mentors area high school students in the Firm's Power of an Idea Scholarship Contest.
• Mr. Ball is a trained mediator and has acted as a court-appointed mediator in both the New Hampshire and Vermont courts.
• Mr. Ball attended Franklin Pierce’s Intellectual Property Summer Institute.
• An avid traveler, Mr. Ball has completed coursework in Scotland, Japan, and Italy.

Education:

• J.D., Vermont Law School
• B.S., Computer Science, University of Vermont
• Certificate in International Relations, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland

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