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T H E C A S E B O O K C O M E S A L I V EHon. Joseph ColaianniPartner, Patton Boggs LLPCUA Course Taught: Intellectual PropertyTransactionsJudge Colaianni was appointed to the U.S. Court of FederalClaims in 1970 and remained until 1984. While on the court,his docket included several hundred patent claims.Today, Judge Colaianni assists clients in a broad range ofintellectual property litigation including patents, trademarks,copyrights, licensing, trade secrets and antitrust. His litigationexperience often involves mechanical, electro-mechanical,electronics and chemical technology. He has also served as botha mediator and arbitrator in complex alternative dispute resolutionproceedings. He has also successfully negotiated numerouslicense agreements, including patents and trademarks.• Judge Colaianni has served as a patent law expert innumerous patent suits. He has also represented clients atthe U.S. International Trade Commission.• Judge Colaianni has applied for and prosecuted patent andtrademark applications in the United States Patent Officeand throughout the world.• Following associations with law firms in Michigan andOhio — including work for the Burroughs Corporation,where he was involved in patenting the companies’ inventions— he later joined the Department of Justice anddefended the United States government against patentinfringement claims.George M. BorababyPartner, Patton Boggs LLPCUA Course Taught: Copyright LawGeorge Borababy devotes a substantial part of his practice toadvising clients on their ability to use, register and protecttrademarks and service marks. He also prepares applications forfederal trademark and service mark registration. He has filednumerous applications for marks covering a variety of productsand services in the United States. Borababy advises clients andother attorneys with respect to trademark issues involved inbusiness transactions, including such issues arising in connectionwith licensing contracts, distribution contracts, franchises,assetsales, loans secured by intellectual property andsimilar transactions.• He is principal outside counsel in the United States to amajor international corporation and to several smallercompanies. His transactional practice involves counselingclients with respect to commercial real property leases. Inthis connection, he principally represents retail tenants inthe negotiation of their store leases. Borababy also representshis clients in drafting and negotiating license agreementsand other commercial contracts, and advises themon a broad range of corporate matters as well.• He also represents clients in opposition, cancellation andconcurrent-use proceedings before the U.S. TrademarkTrial and Appeal Board.“I believe that this law school has the resources to become a premium ‘brand’ inIP law,” says Megan La Belle. “It’s just a matter of letting people in the legal andacademic communities, as well as potential students, know what CUA has to offer.”Considering the benefits of expert faculty, bright jobprospects and often fascinating subject matter, the outlook forthe IP program at Catholic University glows brightly.The abundance of experience and expertise among CUAfaculty and adjunct lecturers enables the law school to keep itsIP program current and relevant to practice trends. Instructorshave expanded the core offerings in the IP curriculum, andworked hard to encourage and enable students to compete innational patent and trademark moot court competitions. Theyaspire to develop an institute or degree in the IP field just as thelaw school it has done in such areas as communications andsecurities law.Megan La Belle, who will teach a new seminar calledAdvanced Patent Law in the spring, coached the CUA squad thatsuccessfully competed in the American Intellectual PropertyLaw Association’s moot court competition last year. That teamwas among just four teams nationwide to make it to the semifinalround of the national competition.“I believe that this law school has the resources to becomea premium ‘brand’ in IP law,” says La Belle. “It’s just a matter ofletting people in the legal and academic communities, as well aspotential students, know what CUA has to offer.”10CUALAWYER /Fall–Winter 2007