Baldassare (“Baldo”) Vinti chairs Proskauer’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group.
Baldo’s practice focuses on litigating patent, false advertising, trade secret, life sciences, trademark and contractual matters in federal and state courts and before the International Trade Commission. He is a seasoned trial attorney responsible for all aspects of litigation, including Markman hearings, appeals before the Federal Circuit, case preparation and strategy, depositions, motion practice, and settlement negotiations. He has represented clients in high-stakes matters involving a broad range of technologies, including medical devices, diagnostics, immunoassays, prosthetics, pharmaceuticals, dental implants, electronic medical records systems, encryption technology, wound dressings, digital video compression, electronic book delivery and security systems, mobile media technologies, navigation and location-based services, bandwidth management, bar code scanning, lasers , and other technologies. Baldo has represented numerous major corporations, including Arkema S.A., British Telecommunications PLC, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., Maidenform Brands Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Ossur North America Inc., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., Welch Foods, Inc., and Zenith Electronics LLC.
In addition, Baldo regularly handles transactional work, including intellectual property due diligence, licensing, intellectual property structural transactions, patentability studies, infringement/non-infringement opinions, and client counseling in intellectual property 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.
cum laude
American Intellectual Property Association
Association of Medical Diagnostics Manufacturers
Intellectual Property Owners Association
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys
Italy America Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, Inc.
New York Intellectual Property Association
JD Supra Readers' Choice Life Sciences 2022
Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America 2023-2025
The Legal 500 United States: Trademarks: Litigation: 2021-2022
The Legal 500 United States: Media, Technology & Telecoms: Marketing & Advertising: 2011-2012, 2020-2024 (Leading Lawyer 2024)
IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2014-2021, 2023
New York Super Lawyers 2015-2022
New York Super Lawyers "Rising Stars,” 2013
Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS 2023
Edited by Brendan J. O'Rourke and Baldassare Vinti