Matthew T. Fagan is an associate of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in the Firm’s Boston office. His practice focuses on intellectual property in the computer software, computer networks, and Internet fields.  Mr. Fagan assists clients with patent preparation and prosecution both in the U.S. and throughout the world. His experience also includes the online usage of trademarks.

 His notable experience includes: 

• Assisting in the preparation and prosecution of patents related to fuel cell technology, microelectromechanical devices (MEMS), telecommunications, lasers, medical devices and methods, robotics, software-based models and modeling environments, artificial intelligence, and operating system and programming language design.
• Assisting in the prosecution of international patent applications in high technology areas.            
• Securing the transfer, through the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, of two Internet domains that were being used to divert traffic from a client’s Web page.
• Advising a client regarding a domain tasting incident.
• Representing a software company in negotiations alleging that the company had infringed 10 patents.
• Preparing copyright applications related to computer software including 10,000+ lines of code

Mr. Fagan is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association and serves on the Steering Committee of the New Lawyers’ Section as the Liaison to the Intellectual Property Section.

Mr. Fagan has authored several articles including “The Legal Community’s Use of Cached Web Pages in and out of Trial,” B.U. Journal of Science & Technology Law (2007) and “The FEC and Individual Internet Sites after Shays and Meehan v. FEC,” B.U. Journal of Science & Technology Law (2006). He is the co-author of “Perceptual Limits for a Robotic Rehabilitation Environment Using Feedback Distortion,” Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering (2005) and “Feedback Distortion for Rehabilitation,” Proceedings from the 11th Annual Conference on Virtual & Teleoperator Systems (2005). He participated in Boston University School of Law’s Intellectual Property Law Panel in 2008 and 2009.

Mr. Fagan earned his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law in 2007. He also attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 2004.