Brinks Gilson & Lione Ann Arbor shareholders named to 2019 'Michigan Leading Lawyers'

Attorneys Jon Beaupre and James K. Cleland, both shareholders in the Ann Arbor office of Brinks Gilson & Lione, have been named to the 2019 Michigan Leading Lawyers list.

Beaupre has a diverse practice, including IP litigation, managing patent portfolios, counseling clients on intellectual asset management, and preparing agreements and licenses. He has extensive oral advocacy experience, including summary judgment hearings, preliminary injunction proceedings, and oral arguments before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). 

Beaupre is a long-serving co-chair of the firm’s Post-Grant Patent Practice Group, through which Brinks offers strategic insight on challenging and defending patents in post-grant proceedings before the PTAB, such as Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceedings.

Last Spring, Beaupre presented “Navigating International Trade Commission (ITC) Investigations” at the 2018 Ningbo IP International High Level Congress l in China, and discussed District Court litigation versus ITC litigation in the United States.

Cleland’s practice at Brinks focuses on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition litigation in a broad range of technologies including the automotive, chemical, materials science, mechanical, electrical and medical device arts, as well as in client counseling, opinion and licensing work in those same areas.

He is co-chair of Brinks’ Automotive Industry Group. His extensive litigation experience includes trials, preliminary injunction hearings, Markman hearings, summary judgment proceedings and all aspects of fact and expert witness discovery, spanning federal courts across the country. He also focuses on post-grant review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.