Glenn M. Cunningham
Partner
Glenn Cunningham is the Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group. Glenn represents publicly traded and privately held companies in industries, including manufacturing, software and technology, food and beverage, franchise, construction, and healthcare in intellectual property and technology cases throughout the United States. His trial practice includes the prosecution and defense of unfair competition, non-competition agreement, trade secret, trademark, patent and copyright cases.
Glenn served five years as Chair of the Board of Directors of Interlaw - a leading global network of independent law firms - and continues to serve on Interlaw's Board, bringing a cross-border perspective to working with national and international clients. He is the former Chair of the firm's Business Litigation Practice Group and was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law teaching Trial Advocacy for nearly a decade. Glenn is also currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Technology Council.
Credentials
Education
- Villanova University, B.A., 1988, Pi Sigma Alpha, Order of Omega
- Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1991
Bar Admissions
- Connecticut, 1991
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2011
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2004
- U.S. District Court, District of CT, 1992
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1996
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Distinctions
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America®: Litigation - Intellectual Property (2012-2025)
- Listed in Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial (2024)
- Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyer®: Intellectual Property Litigation (2007-2024)
- Named "Lawyer of the Year" (2022): Best Lawyers® Hartford Region Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Recognized as an IP Star USA by Managing Intellectual Property (2015-2020)
- Irish Legal 100 (2015)
- AV Preeminent® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Life Fellow, The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association
Teaching Positions
- University of Connecticut School of Law: Lecturer in Law, Trial Advocacy; 1999-2008
Professional Affiliations
- Interlaw: Chair, Board of Directors (2018-2023); Vice Chair (2015-2018)
- Connecticut Technology Council: Member, Board of Directors
- Federal Bar Association: Past Vice President for the Second Circuit
- Federal Bar Association: Past President for the Hartford Chapter
- Connecticut Bar Association: Federal Practice Section; Intellectual Property Section
- International Trademark Association, Prior Member of the Enforcement Committee: Courts & Tribunals Subcommittee
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- Hartford County Bar Association
- Judge Janet Bond Arterton American Inn of Court
- Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
- James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation
Community Involvement
- The Children's Museum (formerly Science Center of Connecticut): Past Vice Chair - Board of Trustees
- Leadership Greater Hartford: Class of 1999
- Town of West Hartford: Past Member, Democratic Town Committee
- United Way of the Capital Area: Past Chair, Shipman & Goodwin Annual Appeal
- Formerly a Justice of the Peace
