Coleman Watson | Orlando Intellectual Property Lawyer

Coleman Watson is the Managing Partner of Watson LLP, and his background has a unique blend of engineering, business, and finance interposed with the practice of law. He is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, and he counsels and advises clients on intellectual property and technology issues. Coleman also has broad experience in patent litigation, trademark litigation, videogame law, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, government investigations, qui tam claims, "bet the company" litigation, and Internet domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Coleman has litigated cases in four federal appellate courts, over fifteen federal district courts, and before numerous federal agencies.

Prior to launching the firm, Coleman was an attorney at Baker Hostetler LLP, a national U.S. law firm. He also previously worked for several leading international companies, including the American Express Company, where he worked in the Intellectual Property Strategy Group managing a global intellectual property portfolio. Coleman is an engineer by training, and after receiving his undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech, he worked for two global engineering firms ranked by Engineering News-Record magazine in the top twenty-five engineering firms worldwide.

Coleman attended New York Law School, where he earned both his Juris Doctor, with a concentration in Intellectual Property, and his Master of Laws in Financial Services, with a concentration in Capital Markets, Hedge Fund Formation, and Prime Brokerage. During law school, Coleman served as an Editor on the New York Law School Law Review and drafted a note on whether federal copyright registration is a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit, or rather, a claim processing rule.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney	Watson LLP.	Orlando, FL	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
New York Law School	LL.M.	Law School	2009
Georgia Institute of Technology	Bachelors		N/A

State / Court	Date
Georgia	2015
Florida	2010
New York	2010
California	2009

• American Intellectual Property Lawyer’s Association
  Atlanta Bar Association
  Citrus Club, Young Executives Board of Directors
  Federal Bar Association
  Los Angeles County Bar Association
  National Association of Patent Practitioners
  National Urban League
  New York City Bar Association
  Orange County Bar Association, Intellectual Property Committee
  U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Bench Bar Fund Committee
  U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Judicial Relations Committee

• 2020, 2019, 2018, Best Lawyers in America, Intellectual Property Litigation, Best Lawyers
  2019, Who's Who in America, Marquis
  2019 Florida Rising Star, Intellectual Property Litigation, Super Lawyers Magazine
  2019, 2018, Orlando's Best Lawyers, Orlando Magazine
  2016, Forty Under 40, Orlando Business Journal

• “Recent Court Ruling’s Impact on the False Claims Act,” Physicians Practice, (November 2016).
  “Protecting Data Analytics from Litigation,” Today’s General Counsel, (November 2016).
  “Obtaining Approval from the Federal Drug Administration for Medical Devices,” Nonahood News, (July 2016).
  “Bitcoin: The Next Electronic Payment Revolution for Law Firms,” Daily Report (April 2016).
  “Data Privacy Breaches: Organizing a Data Breach Incident-Response Team,” InsideCounsel (April 2016).
  “Using Bitcoin as a Currency,” VC-List (March 2016).
  “Judicial Profile: The Honorable Mary S. Scriven, U.S. District Judge,” The Federal Lawyer, Federal Bar Association, Vol. 62, No. 2 (March 2015).
  “Judicial Profile: The Honorable Karla R. Spaulding, U.S. Magistrate Judge,” The Federal Lawyer, Federal Bar Association, Vol. 60, No. 10 (December 2013).
  “Echoes of the Lone Dissenter: Copyright Registration as a Claim Processing Rule,” The Briefs, Orange County Bar Association, Vol. 80, No. 2 (2012).
  “Money Laundering through Virtual Worlds,” Orange County Bar Association, Technology Law Committee, CLE Seminar (2012).

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