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John C. Englander
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Boston, MA 02109
617.570.1268
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Intellectual Property > Patents & Technology
Litigation > Consumer Financial Services Litigation
Litigation > IP Litigation

Areas of Practice
John Englander is a trial lawyer and former co-chair of Goodwin Procter's Litigation Group. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on patent litigation. He has extensive experience in banking and financial services litigation, including in particular class action defense. Mr. Englander also has litigated cases involving all manner of commercial disputes, business torts and unfair trade practices claims.

Work for Clients
An engineer by training, Mr. Englander devotes the bulk of his practice to intellectual property litigation, particularly patent litigation. He has been trial counsel in patent infringement cases involving semiconductor manufacturing tools (Applied Materials, Inc.), stem cell technology (ViaCell, Inc.) and generic drugs (TEVA Pharmaceutical). He also has been counsel in cases involving airport and home security systems (GE-Interlogix), telephone and internet routing and congestion control systems (Cisco Systems), and fax technology and software architecture (Brooktrout Technology, Inc.). Mr. Englander was prevailing counsel in PharmaStem v. Viacell, 491 F.3d 1342 (2007), and was trial counsel on remand from the Federal Circuit in Maxwell v. J. Baker, Inc., 86 F.3d 1098 (1996). In addition to his patent experience, Mr. Englander has litigated numerous trade secret, copyright, and trademark matters.

Mr. Englander also has extensive experience in banking and lending litigation. He has represented banking institutions and mortgage lenders in over 100 class actions around the United States involving the Truth in Lending Act, RESPA and other challenges to particular lending practices. Mr. Englander was prevailing counsel in both O'Sullivan v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., 319 F.3d 732 (5th Cir. 2003) and Vandenbroeck v. CommonPoint Mortgage Company, 210 F.3d 696 (6th Cir. 2000). He also represented...more ?

An engineer by training, Mr. Englander devotes the bulk of his practice to intellectual property litigation, particularly patent litigation. He has been trial counsel in patent infringement cases involving semiconductor manufacturing tools (Applied Materials, Inc.), stem cell technology (ViaCell, Inc.) and generic drugs (TEVA Pharmaceutical). He also has been counsel in cases involving airport and home security systems (GE-Interlogix), telephone and internet routing and congestion control systems (Cisco Systems), and fax technology and software architecture (Brooktrout Technology, Inc.). Mr. Englander was prevailing counsel in PharmaStem v. Viacell, 491 F.3d 1342 (2007), and was trial counsel on remand from the Federal Circuit in Maxwell v. J. Baker, Inc., 86 F.3d 1098 (1996). In addition to his patent experience, Mr. Englander has litigated numerous trade secret, copyright, and trademark matters.

Mr. Englander also has extensive experience in banking and lending litigation. He has represented banking institutions and mortgage lenders in over 100 class actions around the United States involving the Truth in Lending Act, RESPA and other challenges to particular lending practices. Mr. Englander was prevailing counsel in both O'Sullivan v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., 319 F.3d 732 (5th Cir. 2003) and Vandenbroeck v. CommonPoint Mortgage Company, 210 F.3d 696 (6th Cir. 2000). He also represented lenders in dozens of the most prominent lawsuits involving challenges to industry practices on compensation of mortgage brokers.

Mr. Englander has represented a number of institutions and individuals in various disputes with federal, state and local government agencies. For many years he has represented the major domestic air carriers in disputes under federal and state law regarding the taxation of their aircraft. See, e.g., American Airlines, Inc. v. County of San Mateo, 912 P.2d 1198 (Cal. Sup. Ct. 1996). less ?

Professional Activities
Mr. Englander is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America and Marquis Who's Who 2007.

Publications/Presentations
Mr. Englander served on the Boston University Law Review. He has been a regular presenter over the years at various conferences addressing his areas of expertise. In particular, Mr. Englander has presented many times for the Practicing Law Institute on issues associated with patent trial practice.

Professional Experience
Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Englander served as law clerk to the Honorable Bailey Aldrich on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and thereafter was law clerk to then Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bar and Court Admissions
Mr. Englander is admitted to practice in Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1984, and to various federal courts since that time. Mr. Englander is also a member of the bar of the Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, he has been specially admitted to practice in courts in 25 states.

Education
J.D., Boston University Law School, 1983
B.S., Cornell University, 1980

"Have a good flight" or "Have a good trip"

"Have a good flight"

I am sitting in my office here at work after spending a long morning finding 11"x17" clear plastic sleeves for some posters we're entering into a competition. Anyway, seeing as how my quest took all morning, I gave myself a gift. I took a long lunch and got a chance to see The Oracle shortly before her flight left back for Dallas and the Great Beyond (read: Florida).

See, The Oracle now lives in the Far, Far Away studying slugs or something that apparently has some medical value to humanity (here's to curing my cancer in 20 years, Oracle!), so it's rare that I get to see her anymore.

I got to see her one last time before she left today. We went to lunch at Chili's. Afterwards I dropped her off where she was staying and said "have a good flight" after a good hug goodbye.

It occurred to me on my drive to work that I always say "have a good flight" when someone is flying somewhere. I never say "have a safe flight." And I'll get to that in a second.

When someone drives somewhere, you say "have a safe drive," right? I know I do. You see, because you're in control of the vehicle you sort of have some say in the safety level of the voyage it makes sense to remind someone to drive safely. You don't get that when you're flying.

People tell me "have a safe flight" all the time when I fly. I always respond with "it's not really up to me, now is it?" I know that sounds kind of assy, but it's true; it's not up to you whether your flight is safe or not, that's the captain's job or possibly some guy on the ground with a Madonna headset. Point is, it's really not in your hands whether the wings fall off or you come in to the runway too fast. It's someone else's job to take care of that. All you gotta do is take your iPod or your book--if you're analog like that--and sit and wait for the flight attendant to throw you your soda and some peanuts.

So, whenever someone goes on a trip on an airplane, I say "have a good flight" because, well, they can usually control that part of the trip. Whether the plane goes down in flames, though, is out of their control. It's the captain's job to make it a safe flight.

Anyway, to The Oracle, I say have a good flight home. Say hi to your parents and your delightful puppy for me. Oh, and your brother, too.

If not, uh, I dunno, have a safe flight. Or something.

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How to Become a Professional Guide, Tour Director/Manager or Travel Director
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Becoming a Professional Guide (Tour/Tourist Guide)
Becoming a Tour Director or Tour Manager
Becoming a Travel Director

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Becoming a Professional Guide

Professional Guides, often known as Tourist Guides or Tour Guides, are professional communicators who are very passionate and knowledgeable about their city and often the surrounding area. Most tours that they lead are from a few hours to a day in length, though they can sometimes lead overnight trips . Professional guides can lead group tours, often as a step-on guide, walking tours, or private tours for independent travelers, small groups, families and business travelers.

The training required to be a Professional Guide varies widely depending upon where you live. In many places, formal training or licensing is not required. However, many cities or countries do require that you pass a formal licensing tests or graduate from a university. In some places there are schools and programs that train guides, certifications offered, or companies that will train guides. And in some cases guides are self-taught or learn from other guides.

To learn about local training programs, and guide organizations where you live, navigate to your destination, click on the "Travel Tips and Ask the Experts" link, and look for the special topic called "Information About Professional Guiding."

To list as a Professional Guide under a specific destination at Worldwide Guides, we do require experience, training, (a license, if applicable) or equivalent experience. Read more about this here.

We will soon post more information here on becoming a guide, including training programs and information about finding work, earnings, how to break in and how to develop your own tour business.

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Becoming a Tour Director or Tour Manager

Tour Directors or Tour Managers are professionals who travel with groups around the world, usually for one to two weeks at a time, managing the itinerary of a tour. Sometimes they live close to where the tour is located, sometimes they live where the group originates and they travel with the group to the destination and sometimes they are from somewhere else altogether.

The responsibilities of a tour director/manager varies widely with the type of tour (luxury, adventure, motor coach, seniors, students, etc) and with the destination of the tour (sometimes you give commentary, sometimes there is a local guide who does it, sometimes you are required to speak the language of the country, sometimes you are not).

The qualifications of a tour director/manager also varies widely: Some have advanced degrees and some never attended college. Some have attended training programs and some have not. Also, the age of tour directors/managers varies from those in their 20 to those in their 70s. Many Tour Directors/Managers have graduated from training programs and we will have information about these programs soon.

Because there are many tour companies around the world that will hire tour directors without previous experience or training and will usually send them on training tours, we do permit those seeking an entry level position as a tour director/manager to list in the ITDD , the International Tour and Travel Director Directory. (This is a separate section from the Professional Guides/Destination Experts section found under "Select a Destination." )

Listing in the ITDD will allow Tour Companies to find you and you will receive notice of job/tour openings that we receive. To read how you can list in the ITDD, click here

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Becoming a Travel Director

Travel Directors are professionals who travel worldwide staffing or coordination special events, corporate meetings, incentive programs, conventions and exhibits.

We will soon be posting more information about becoming a Travel Director.

If you are interested in being a Travel Director, you can list in the ITDD , the International Tour and Travel Director Directory.. As an ITDD member, companies looking for Travel Directors will be able to find you and you will receive notice of job openings that we receive.