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Toby H. Kusmer is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Boston office. As a member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, his experience includes all aspects of intellectual property law, both U.S. and international, including ex parte and inter partes matters such as patent and trademark prosecution, opinions, licensing and contract work and related counseling and litigation.
Toby’s practice includes a diverse array of areas including optical, medical devices and instrumentation, imaging systems for both medical and security applications, antennas, process control equipment, telecommunications, semiconductor and electronic technology and devices, information technology, nanotechnology, RFID technology, computers, networks, business methods, e-business and internet technologies, and computer software.
Toby is AV-rated in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. From 1985 to 1990, he was an adjunct lecturer of law at Boston College, teaching the intellectual property course. He also spent six years as a patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Toby’s pro bono activities include mentoring businesses participating in LARTA/NIH-CAP (Commercial Assistance Program), a program devoted to assisting promising life science companies (a select number of NIH SBIR Phase II grantees) in bringing their technologies to market. He is an adviser to the Board of Directors of the Academy of Applied Science, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 recognized nationally as an educational resource center offering science enrichment programs for students K-12 and professional development for teachers and educational administrators. The organization’s programs include the Young Inventors Program, the Junior Humanities and Science Symposium, the Research Engineering Apprenticeship Program and the Naval Science Award Program. Toby is also an adviser to the Board of Directors of Bedside Advocates, a 501 (c) 3 organization whose original mission is to test the proposition that trained Bedside Advocates substantially improve the hospitalization experience for patients and their families while simultaneously enhancing patient safety and the quality of care and identifying unnecessary costs, expenditures and waste.
Toby holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Education:
American University-Washington College of Law, J.D., 1970
Washington University, B.S.E.E., 1966 | 