Paul J. Cronin

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Paul J. Cronin — patent litigation practice summary

Focus areas. Cronin is an intellectual property trial lawyer at Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston, where he is a partner in the firm's Litigation and Intellectual Property Departments and a member of the IP Litigation practice group. Nutter's 2013 announcement of his arrival (with Eugene A. Feher and James C. Hall from the IP boutique Hayes Bostock & Cronin LLC) described his practice as patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation, with case experience spanning computer hardware and software, anti-piracy technology, weapons technology, bioprocess systems, automatic voice recognition and consumer products. His tracked docket is concentrated in wireless/two-way communications and remote monitoring technology (SIPCO's mesh-networking and remote sensor patents).

Side preference. The plaintiff/defendant split in the tracked data (2 plaintiff, 1 defendant) is misleading if read as two-sided operating-company work: both sides of the docket reflect Cronin representing the same patent-owning client, SIPCO, LLC and IP CO, LLC (d/b/a INTUS IQ). In SIPCO, LLC et al. v. Emerson Electric Co. and SIPCO, LLC v. Emerson Electric Co. he was lead counsel for the patent owner as plaintiff; the "defendant" appearance, Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC, is Emerson's Northern District of Georgia declaratory-judgment action, in which Cronin again represented SIPCO as the defendant. On this record he is best characterized as patent-owner/enforcement-side counsel rather than a defense-side or operating-company specialist, though his broader firm bio describes both enforcement and defense work.

Notable matters and PTAB experience. His most prominent tracked matters are the consolidated SIPCO–Emerson disputes, which produced an extensive PTAB record: IPRs and a CBM in which challenged SIPCO claims of the '842, '492, '471, '496 and '732 patents were held unpatentable (CBM2016-00095 and IPR2016-01895, -00008, -00213, -00216). He appears as patent-owner counsel in those PTAB proceedings (including powers of attorney and lead/backup counsel designations), so he does have repeat IPR/CBM experience — on the patent-owner side. On appeal, SIPCO, LLC v. Emerson Electric Co., 939 F.3d 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2019) reversed the Board's construction of "low-power transceiver" and vacated the §101/§103 rulings as to the '842 patent, while Emerson Electric Co. v. SIPCO, LLC, No. 19-1301 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 30, 2020) (nonprecedential) affirmed the Board on the '708 patent. Nutter's own attorney bio also credits him with a nine-figure jury damages award and a favorable settlement after presenting $1.2 billion in damages to a jury; I could not independently verify the case names or results for those two claims from public sources, so they should be treated as firm-reported rather than confirmed.

Bar and education. Admitted in Massachusetts (MA BBO #641230, per court filings); J.D., Suffolk University Law School; B.A. in Economics, Boston College. Before Hayes Bostock & Cronin he was a criminal prosecutor in the Middlesex County (Mass.) District Attorney's Office; he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for Litigation – Intellectual Property (2018, 2019). Note: a separate "Paul Cronin" appears in Law360 records at Mintz Levin on a 1998 Minnesota patent case; that entry does not appear to be the same attorney and I have not attributed it to him.