Baldassare Vinti is a partner in the Patent Law and Intellectual Property Groups.

Baldo’s practice focuses on litigating patent, false advertising, trade secret, trademark and contractual matters in federal and state courts and before the International Trade Commission. He is a skilled intellectual property litigator with extensive experience in all aspects of litigation, including trials (jury and bench), Markman hearings, appeals before the Federal Circuit, case preparation and strategy, depositions, motion practice, and settlement negotiations. In the area of patent litigation, he has worked on cases involving a broad range of technologies, including medical devices, diagnostics, immunoassays, orthotics and prosthetics, proton pump inhibitor pharmaceuticals, dental implants, electronic medical records systems, wound dressings, pharmaceutical capsules, digital video compression, electronic book delivery and security systems, mobile phones and mobile media technologies, ATSC digital television standard, navigation, location-based services, bandwidth management, bar code scanning, irrigation equipment, waste management systems, laser inscription devices, and other related technologies. Baldo has represented numerous major corporations in patent litigations, including British Telecommunications PLC, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., Maidenform Brands Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Ossur North America Inc., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., U.S. Philips Corp. and Zenith Electronics LLC.

In addition, Baldo regularly handles transactional work, including intellectual property due diligence, intellectual property licensing, structural transactions involving intellectual property, patentability studies, infringement/non-infringement opinions, and client counseling in patent and trademark matters. In addition, he has experience in patent prosecution matters.

Baldo is an author and frequent commentator on patent issues pertaining to medical devices and a host of other intellectual property topics, and has been quoted in the National Law Journal, Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Westlaw Journal and Inside Counsel magazine. He is also a regular contributor of articles published in Medical Product Outsourcing magazine that deal with the medical device industry.

Baldo served as a judicial intern for Hon. John E. Sprizzo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Hon. Charles A. LaTorella of the New York Supreme Court.