Joseph F. Shea

Partner Seaport West
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210 617.439.2280 Fax: 617.310.9280 jshea@nutter.com jshea@nutter.com V-card

EDUCATION

• Harvard Law School, J.D.
• University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D.
• University of Pittsburgh, M.A.
• Pitzer College, B.A., with honors

ACCOLADES

• Massachusetts Super Lawyer, 2004, 2006 & 2009
• Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2010

ADMISSIONS

• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

ARTICLES & EVENTS

• Titan Tire Corp. v. Case New Holland, Inc.: Federal Circuit Confirms There is No Special Preliminary Injunction Standard for Patent Cases
  Client Advisory, Intellectual Property Litigation
• Timothy Johnston, Joseph Shea and Heather Repicky publish “The Standard for Preliminary Injunctions Should Be Abandoned”
  ABA IP Litigation Newsletter

Joseph F. Shea is a partner in the Litigation Department. He has significant litigation and trial experience in intellectual property disputes and general commercial matters. Recent intellectual property cases include patents for online matching software, 3-D visualizations of seismic and other data, and consumer products. Joseph’s intellectual property work also includes trademark and copyright matters. Some recent matters involved trademarks for consumer products, and software for industrial alarm and control systems.

Joseph has significant experience litigating and trying commercial disputes, including commercial arbitrations for bio-pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers. 

As a result of the breadth of Joseph’s experience, he spends significantly more time in court and on trial than pure patent litigators. The majority of Joseph’s trials take place in the Federal District Courts, but he also has extensive experience in Massachusetts and other state courts, and in arbitrations.

Representative litigation and trial experience:

Intellectual Property

• Settled patent case at Markman stage when defendant agreed to license pattern matching software
• Resolved related suits concerning consumer products in four different jurisdictions, after Markman decisions and Daubert motions pending
• Secured judgment in copyright infringement case after entry of preliminary injunction

Commercial and Other Litigation

• Obtained summary judgment in a case alleging that the medical product and procedure of Nutter's client, a processor of blood plasma, caused the death of plaintiff's decedent
• Defeated plaintiff's request for class certification in litigation involving product used to patch the dura after brain surgery
• Received jury verdicts and damage awards for client in two consolidated contract cases
• Won arbitration judgment in favor of Nutter's client, a stent manufacturer, in litigation involving a supply contract
• After bench trial, obtained a verdict for Nutter's client, a commercial lessee, in a suit alleging breach and forfeiture of a long-term lease valued at more than $20 million

He is a member of the American, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Boston Bar Associations, and was named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the area of business litigation in the November 2004 and 2006 issues of Boston Magazine.