Brian J. Colandreo is the Boston Patent Practice Leader and practices in the area of patent law as a member of the Intellectual Property Law Practice Group of the Litigation Section of Holland & Knight.
A registered patent attorney, Brian focuses his practice on client management, general intellectual property prosecution, transactional work, litigation support, due diligence work and opinion work.
Mr. Colandreo has extensive technical experience in: business methods/web-based applications; internet portals/search engines/spiders; graphical user interfaces; speech recognition systems; queue management and emulation; wireless network management; IP telephony; network intrusion detection systems; network compression algorithms; digital rights management; network encryption systems; audio/video streaming and advertisement insertion systems; securities trading systems; research generation systems; superconducting rotating machines; medical devices; personal media devices; network processors and packet processing methodologies; network switches/router /hubs; optical switching systems; IR & EMF-based 3D positioning systems; and consumer goods. Mr. Colandreo’s clients range from small start-up companies to publicly-traded companies.
Prior to entering law school, Mr. Colandreo worked as a systems/software engineer for Johnson Controls.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Colandreo practiced at Fish & Richardson P.C. in Boston and the intellectual property department of McDermott, Will & Emery in Boston.
Mr. Colandreo is currently an Adjunct IP Professor of intellectual property law for Patent Practice 1 and Patent Practice 2 at Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, NH, and often judges IP moot court competitions.