With clients from Shanghai to Toronto to California, Tim Shannon maintains a national litigation practice in a variety of high-tech fields, with a particular focus on patents and patent “troll” litigation. Tim’s practice involves extensive work in the software, electronics, lighting, computer chip manufacturing, and medical device fields. His complaint-to-trial experience includes Markman hearings in courts across the country, from Massachusetts to Texas. Recent highlights include:
- Representation of a Shanghai-based computer chip manufacturer, through Markman and settlement, in a patent troll case in E.D. Tex.
- Representation of a North Carolina-based Integrated Development Environment software manufacturer in a patent troll case in E.D. Tex.
- Representation of a Toronto-based life sciences company specializing in plant-based manufacturing/gene expression of human monoclonal antibodies.
- Representation of a national LED lighting company in extensive patent licensing negotiations and pre-suit investigation against a 200-patent portfolio.
Clients have entrusted some of their most difficult and technologically-sophisticated cases to Tim and his team. In the words of one client:
Just OUTSTANDING. It was dramatic, calculated, strategic, I could go on and on! You set it up perfectly and dropped the bombs at the right time and it was checkmate before they even knew it. Boy, were we lucky to have you on our side. You guys OWNED this case.
Prior to joining Verrill Dana, Tim practiced in the #1-ranked IP litigation practice group at WilmerHale. While there and since, Tim has handled patent cases involving a wide range of technologies, including software, data- and telecommunications, online banking, computerized mammogram screening, controlled fluid delivery in medical devices, spinal fixation, and blood glucose testing.
Tim also maintains a substantial pro bono practice, most recently representing a teenage boy in an appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court concerning a family matter. He has previously represented Algerian-born detainees held at Guantanamo Bay (“GTMO”) seeking transfer out of GTMO.
When not practicing law, Tim is active in local, state, and federal politics. He is a former member of the Hillary for Maine Finance Committee and of the Obama for Maine Finance Committee. He is chairman of the Yarmouth Town Democratic Committee. He is the President Elect of the Federal Bar Association of Maine and – most important – a devoted husband and father of three fantastic kids.
Representative Matters and Recent Case Highlights
Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property Litigation