Education
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Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1977
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Michigan State University, Ph.D., 1967
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University of Detroit, B.S., magna cum laude, 1962
Bar Admissions
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Colorado
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Idaho
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Indiana
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Massachusetts
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court Admissions
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U.S. Supreme Court
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th, 10th and Federal Circuits
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Colorado District Court
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Indiana Southern District Court
Awards and Honors
- Recognized, Colorado Super Lawyers, 2007
Recognized, Colorado Super Lawyers (inaugural list) American Jurisprudence Award for Torts National Science Foundation Fellowship Detroit Edison Scholarship
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Carl Forest helps clients efficiently navigate the waters of intellectual property. He uses vast experience in law, an understanding of people and a deep knowledge of technology to develop effective business solutions to patent and trademark issues. While Dr. Forest has had much success in litigation, arbitration and mediation, he understands the essential role that patent and trademark prosecution plays in intellectual property practice. He is particularly knowledgeable in semiconductors, optics, telecommunications, medical devices and electronics and is an internationally-recognized expert in wind power. Having negotiated hundreds of agreements over 30 years in the course of practice, his first priority in any matter is to find a positive, innovative solution. A tenacious litigator, Dr. Forest encourages cooperation; as a scientist, he focuses on bringing new ideas into commercial reality.
Dr. Forest has extensive experience inside and outside large corporations, such as Black and Decker, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Panasonic and Medtronic and as counsel to start-ups, such as Symetrix Corporation and Microphage, Incorporated. Before becoming an attorney, he worked in theoretical physics at Michigan State University, built an electro-optics laboratory at the University of Idaho and taught physics for nonscientists and graduate-level students. His first technical position was as an aerospace engineer for NASA. His life is about bringing new ideas into commercial reality.
His ability to capture a technology in broad claims, his understanding of patent and trademark offices and a record of success on appeal translate into particularly effective patent and trademark prosecution strategies. Dr. Forest’s work also involves international corporations and foreign patent and trademark matters.
Representative Matters
- Particle Measuring Systems, Inc v. Rion Co. Ltd et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, 2001; Baby’s Benefit, Inc., v. SpaceLabs, Inc., U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, 1995; Medtronic, Inc. v. Daig, Inc., U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 1983; Dynamet Technology, Inc. V. Dynamet Incorporated, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, 1977
- Co-wrote Amicus brief to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in In Re: Beauregard, in which the Federal Circuit held that software was patentable. Written, prosecuted and obtained more than 500 U.S. patents, and filed and obtained more than 200 U.S. trademark registrations. He has filed and obtained thousands of patents and trademarks for clients in more than 40 foreign countries.
Professional Affiliations:
- Colorado Bar Association; Patent, Trademark Copyright Section
- American Bar Association; Intellectual Property Law Section
- American Physical Society
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