Harold Laidlaw is an associate in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group. His practice focuses on patent and trademark litigation. He handles cases in Federal District Court and at the International Trade Commission. Having worked as a software development engineer prior to entering law school, Harold has a technical background which is ideally suited to high tech patent litigation and is instrumental in cases involving heavy source code analysis.
Harold also has extensive experience advising clients on open-source software license compliance issues, including those related to the GNU GPL and LGPL, and assists clients with software license drafting and assessment.
Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Harold worked as an IP litigation associate at two successive nationwide law firms in New York. Earlier, Harold worked as a software development engineer, designing and developing infrastructure software used to support millions of users
During law school, Harold served as notes editor to the NYU Annual Survey of American Law and as a legal volunteer at a nonprofit digital library in San Francisco.
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