Mr. Vermut practices exclusively in the area of intellectual property law, including patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and computer law and related unfair competition matters. His practice includes patent and trademark prosecution, litigation and enforcement, licensing software and on-line service agreements and technology transactions.
Mr. Vermut is a Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is Board Certified in Intellectual Property Law with the Florida Bar. He has been recognized as one of Florida Super Lawyers in the area of Intellectual Property and as Florida Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite” in the area of Intellectual Property Rights. In 2009, he was selected as a “Rising Star” in Florida Super Lawyers in Intellectual Property. He received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award regarding the Law and Cyberspace Seminar, Georgetown University.
Mr. Vermut served as president of the Jacksonville Bar Association Intellectual Property Section in 2006 and 2007. He is currently a member of the Florida Bar Computer Law Committee, the Section of Science and Technology of the American Bar Association and the Florida Bar Business Law Section. While at Nova Southeastern University, he was the Associate Editor the Nova Law Review. From 2000 to 2003 he presented the lecture “Patents, Product Development and Technology Transfer” to the University of Florida College of Engineering. Mr. Vermut served as an adjunct professor of law teaching Patent Law at the Florida Coastal School of Law from 1998 to 2002. He began as an adjunct professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law teaching a course in “Patent Law, Advanced Patent Law and Intellectual Property Licensing” in 1999 and continues today.
PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS:
•Presenter: Strafford, CLE Webinar, Perfecting Security Interests in Intellectual Property: Article 9, Federal IP Statutes and Foreign Law, Navigating Overlapping Laws Impacting Security Interests in Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Domain Names, December 21, 2015.
•Presenter: American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, AIPLA 2015 Mid-Winter Institute, Licensing provisions discouraging licensee litigation and validity challenges, January 29, 2015
•Program Guest: WJCT-FM, First Coast Connect Radio Show, What the Aereo Supreme Court Decision Could Mean for the Future of TV, aired April 28, 2014
•Program Guest: WJCT-FM, First Coast Connect Radio Show, Controversy Over The Rights To The Song “Happy Birthday”, aired July 8, 2013
•Program Guest: WJCT-FM, First Coast Connect Radio Show, Examining The Supreme Court Ruling On Gene Patenting, aired June 17, 2013
•Program Guest: WJCT-FM, First Coast Connect Radio Show, Tech Tuesday: Patent Trolling, aired June 11, 2013
•Author: “Staying Informed on New Technology and Trends Affecting the Practice of Trademark Law, ” Chapter of Aspatore Book's Inside the Minds series, Recent Trends in Trademark Protection, Aspatore Books (2012 Ed.)
•Author: “A Synthesis of the Intellectual Property and Antitrust Laws: A Look at Refusals to License Computer Software, ” Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts, Columbia University School of Law, Volume 22, No. 1, Fall 1997.
•Author: “File Caching on the Internet: Technical Infringement or Safeguard for Efficient Network Operation?, ” Journal of Intellectual Property Law, University of Georgia, Volume 4, 1997
•Presenter: Florida Coastal Law Review, 2014 Symposium on Hot Topics in Patent Law, Patent Jurisdiction and Procedural Considerations After Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC, March 7, 2014
•Presenter: Jacksonville Bar Association, CLE, Owner Agreements and Intellectual Property Issues, Inaugural Marshall M. Criser, Jr. Transactional Law Seminar, June 1, 2012
•Presenter: LawReviewCLE, CLE, Intellectual Property Basics, February 14, 2012
•Presenter: UNF International Trade Certificate Program 2012, Intellectual Property and International Business Transactions, February 3, 2012
•Presenter: The Nassau County American Inn of Court, CLE, Florida's Right of Privacy and the Trial of Mary Kinnan Rawlings and Her Book Cross Creek, June 3, 2010
•Presenter: Florida Coastal School of Law, CLE, Litigating Domain Name Disputes and Intellectual Property Contract Issues, October 23, 2009
•Presenter: Jacksonville Bar Association, CLE, Litigating Domain Name Disputes in Florida, October 15, 2009
•Presenter: Jacksonville Bar Association, CLE, Perfecting Security Interests in Intellectual Property Assets, March 14, 2008
•Presenter: Jacksonville Business Journal, Technology Forum and Exposition, Legal Outlook: Considerations for Technology Implementations, March 5, 2008
•Program Guest: WUFT-TV Public Broadcasting Network, Law Matters Television Series, Intellectual Property Rights, aired February 21, 2008
•Presenter: Florida Bar CLE, Beyond the Boilerplate: A Case Method Review of Software License Provisions, Dec. 8, 2005
•Presenter: Intellectual Property Basics, ASME Southeastern Region XI Conference, April 8, 2005
•Presenter: Jacksonville Information Technology Council, Intellectual Property and Computer Law Issues, November 29, 2005
•Presenter: Jacksonville Bar Association, CLE, Understanding Trade Secrets, November 23, 2004
•Presenter: University of Florida Third Annual Law & Technology Conference, Intellectual Property Deal Structure, February 20, 2004
•Presenter: Intellectual Property Issues: Florida Community College at Jacksonville, October 27, 2003
•Presenter: University of North Florida, Protecting Intellectual Property University of North Florida, April 25, 2003
•Presenter: University of North Florida, Intellectual Property Issues at the University of North Florida, 2002
•Presenter: Jacksonville Bar Association, Licensing issues in the Electronic Age, November 2002
•Presenter: Suntrust Bank, Perfecting Security Interests in Intellectual Property Assets, December 2001
•Presenter: Lorman Education Services, Trade Secrets and the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, 2000
•Presenter: Florida Bar CLE, Fundamentals and Developments in Trademarks, November 5, 1999
•Presenter: Lorman Education Services, Trade Secrets and the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, 1999
•Presenter: Lorman Education Services, Copyright Damages and Remedies, 1998
Board Certified in Intellectual Property, The Florida Bar.
