About John Faro
Background and Experience
My work experience has included employment as a Research Assistant at the Harvard Medical School (5 Years – Coop Undergraduate Assignment); employment as a corporate patent counsel (16 Years); and engaged in intellectual property litigation counsel, in the Federal Courts (in support of corporate counsel and my clients for 30+ years)
My most recent corporate employment was for a five (5) year period, as the Divisional Patent Counsel for Baxter Laboratories, Diagnostics Products Division, in Miami, and, for the Baxter Clinical Chemistry instrument Division, in Costa Mesa. While I served as a Baxter Laboratories Divisional Counsel, I was also responsible for providing intellectual property services to another of the Baxter Laboratories’ divisions, American Cystoscope Manufacturer, in Stamford, Connecticut. I have been in private practice since my leaving Baxter Laboratories in 1986.
When I entered private practice, in Miami, in 1986, I continued, as counsel, to Baxter Laboratories (my former employer). At that time, I also assumed the representation of a number additional companies in Florida, Ohio & Massachusetts – Representative Former clients included Coulter Diagnostics (Miami), Symbiosis (Miami), Ivax (Miami), CR Bard (New Jersey), Meridian Diagnostics (Ohio), Polaroid/Behring Diagnostics, (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Wappler Instruments (Greenwich, CN); and, a number of tech Start-Ups in private placement & IPOs.
Recent Litigation – Raptor v Barriero Const. (DC SD Fla ); (Patent Infringement – semi-automated highway construction systems (Florida DOT project); Heather Fees, DVM v. Robert Zarco (DC SD Fla) – Legal Malpractice. Both Raptor and Dr Fees lawsuits were settled on very favorable terms.
Education & Technical Training
Legal Education – I am a graduate of Boston University School of Law. My Law School education included courses both in intellectual property matters, and, commercial law, having intellectual property issues (trade secrets, copyrights & technology licensing), integrated in the commercial law course materials.
Technical/Scientific Education – I am a graduate of Northeastern University, BA (Biology & Chemistry), Boston, Massachusetts. While at Northeastern University I work as a Research Assistant, (5 Years) at the Harvard Medical School, (Co-Op Undergraduate Program at Harvard Medical School), While in law school, I continued to worked (part time), as a Research Assistant, at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Laboratory of Cellular Neuropathology
Professional Licenses
- U. S. Patent & Trademark Office (1970) – Active
- Massachusetts Bar (1969) – Active
- Delaware Bar (1970) – Retired Status