Bruce J. Rose

• Counsel to one of the nation’s largest multinational technology and engineering conglomerates in protecting intellectual property, as well as defending against, and navigating around, intellectual property of others.
• Counsel to one of the nation’s most recognized sports figures in counseling and advising on licensing and intellectual property protection issues.
• Counsel to the operator of one of the most visited searchable websites in defending patent infringement allegations.
• Counsel to one of the world’s leaders in fiber-optic technology in enforcing several patents and trade secrets.
• Frequent author and speaker on recent developments in patent law, including the America Invents Act. Appeared on Bloomberg TV’s In Focus to discuss recent Supreme Court patent law precedent.

Bruce Rose is a partner in Alston & Bird’s national Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He concentrates his practice on prosecuting and defending complex patent, trade secret, trademark, and copyright infringement litigation. Bruce counsels clients on obtaining, protecting, licensing, and enforcing intellectual property. He has significant experience preparing and prosecuting patent applications in the chemical and chemical engineering fields.

Bruce has litigated a wide variety of intellectual property cases through discovery, trial, and appeal in numerous courts throughout the U.S. He has litigated infringement cases in multiple U.S. district courts. His patent cases have covered complex subject matter, such as pharmaceutical compositions, complex chemical manufacturing processes, oil and gas production, and related safety systems, barcode scanners, electronic retail security systems, cell preservative solutions used for cancer screening, methods for disease control in avian species, optical fiber manufacturing, phase change materials and devices, and various computer and cellular device technologies. Bruce has extensive experience in inter partes review proceedings and investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission. Bruce is registered to practice before U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts of North Carolina, the state courts of North Carolina, USPTO, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court. Bruce has been recognized by The Best Lawyers In America^® since 2013.

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Education

• Villanova University (J.D., 1993)
• Michigan Technological University (B.S., 1985)

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