Paul Bondor's practice focuses on the trial of patent infringement disputes.

As lead trial counsel for firm client Boston Scientific in a patent infringement case involving cardiac stents, Mr. Bondor recently won a $19.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Cordis Corporation. That jury verdict followed several significant pre-trial victories for Boston Scientific, in which Mr. Bondor obtained summary judgment of infringement against Cordis, and summary judgment that Cordis’s infringement was willful. In addition, in recent years Mr. Bondor and others from Desmarais LLP won a record-setting $1.54 billion jury verdict on behalf of Lucent Technologies against software giant Microsoft Corporation. Although the verdict was later set aside, that result was widely reported as the largest patent jury verdict in history. Another jury trial, also on behalf of Lucent Technologies against Microsoft, produced a favorable jury verdict and judgment totaling $512 million, at the time one of the top five largest patent verdicts in history.

Mr. Bondor's litigation experience spans a wide range of industries, including DRAM design, voice-over-IP technology, computer software (including search engine technology, software for the optimization of cellular telephone networks, web-related software, and software for automated control systems), biomedical devices (particularly those related to interventional cardiology), as well as other technologies ranging from battery systems for hybrid electric vehicles to offset printing presses and body armor.

In addition to his trial work, Mr. Bondor has also conducted patent validity and infringement assessments, coordinated clients' efforts in multinational patent disputes, as well as litigated unfair competition, trademark, and design patent matters. Mr. Bondor also has considerable experience addressing the complexities of multinational patent litigation, particularly in Western Europe. He has worked closely with local counsel in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and Canada, both prosecuting and defending actions related to patent infringement and validity in those countries. In the course of those proceedings, Mr. Bondor has participated in trials before the district and appeal courts of the Netherlands, proceedings before the German Landgerichte (German regional courts), the Bundespatentgericht (the German Federal Patent Court), the Bundesgerichthof (the German Supreme Court), as well as trial before the High Court and Court of Appeal in London.

Following law school, Mr. Bondor served as a law clerk to the Honorable Louis L. Stanton in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. His first-hand experience of federal litigation from the court's perspective, and especially his participation in the court's decision-making process, furnished him with a unique perspective on federal litigation that continues to influence his interactions with judges and judicial staff.