Jerry Cohen

Jerry Cohen is a Partner at Burns & Levinson and is member of the firm’s Intellectual Property, Privacy and Data Security, Business Litigation, International, Life Sciences and Corporate Groups.

Since 1987, Jerry has served on the United States Patent Quarterly Advisory Board.  He is currently a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the International Trademark Association, Licensing Executives Society, the Copyright Society, the Court Service Center Planning Committee for the Trial Court, the American Bar Association, the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association, Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle, and is on the Board of Editors of the Massachusetts Law Review and Rhode Island Bar Journal.  He is Past President of both the Massachusetts Bar Foundation and the Boston Patent Law Association.  Additionally, he has served as chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association Business Law Section, chair of the Boston Bar Association International Law Section and Editor-in-Chief of the Massachusetts Law Review, and he has served a four year term on the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.

He also serves as an adjunct professor teaching at Suffolk University Law School and at Roger Williams University Law School.  Jerry served as an examiner with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – North America Chapter, and has taken mediation and arbitration training through the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, and American Intellectual Property Law Association.  He has taught at bar association CLE meetings and in Thomson Reuters webinars including issues of domestic and international IP trends, IP misuse, and vertical price restrictions.

A graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jerry earned his J.D., with distinction, from George Washington University.

Jerry will lead the Lawyers Clearinghouse’s efforts to provide pro bono legal assistance to nonprofits on intellectual property issues and related tax and governance issues that affect their organizations.  He will run workshops for organizations to educate, inform, and identify intellectual property needs. In addition, Jerry will train and mentor pro bono lawyers who volunteer for pro bono intellectual property cases. Jerry will also volunteer at Justice Bridge, mentoring new attorneys taking on clients of modest means who do not qualify for pro bono legal assistance.  Jerry will mentor attorneys in both the Boston and New Bedford Justice Bridge offices.