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Alan G. Carlson
acarlson@ccvl.com
612-436-9616
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Biography
Since the inception of his legal career, Alan has specialized in intellectual property litigation. His 38 years of experience have included jury and bench trials throughout the United States for both plaintiffs and defendants in every sort of intellectual property case. He has tried cases dealing with copyright, contract, interference with contract, libel, patent, trademark, trade dress and trade secret.
Alan has a number of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts to his credit, the latest one being worth $31 million in an interference with a contract case. Recently, he and the CCVL team of lawyers won a $30 million-dollar settlement for a client in a patent case. In 1991, Alan was named one of "Minnesota's Winningest Trial Lawyers," and is consistently nominated as a SuperLawyer® in the Minnesota Law & Politics magazine. He is listed in every edition of Best Lawyers® in America from 1991 to the present. During 2003 Alan was the first patent attorney in Minnesota to be inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2009 he was honor by Minnesota Lawyer, magazine as "Attorney of Year". In 2010 Best Lawyers® publication named Alan as "Lawyer of the Year 2010, Intellectual Property Law - Minneapolis."
In addition to his trial work, Alan counsels clients on general intellectual property issues from a litigation viewpoint, and gives lectures on various areas of intellectual property law.
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Education
Purdue University
B.S.M.E., 1967; Pi Tau Sigma
Ohio State University, University of Minnesota, and William Mitchell College of Law
J.D., cum laude, 1971
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Bar Admissions
Minnesota Supreme Court, 1971
U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 1971
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1972
8th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1972
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1982
U.S. District Court, E.D. of Wisconsin, 1986
10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1988
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, 1991
U.S. Supreme Court, 1991
11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1997
U.S. District Court, District of Colorado, 1998
U.S. District Court, District of Illinois 1999
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