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Open Source Software Emerging Issues For Attorneys LIVE Webcast: A 2009 Update
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James Gatto
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop
Mr. Gatto serves as firmwide leader for Intellectual Property, is co-leader of the firm's Open Source practice and leads the Virtual Worlds & Video Games team.
He advises clients worldwide on all aspects of IP strategy, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, open source and Internet law, as well as on the full range of IP issues, from identifying and developing strategies for protecting IP, preparing and filing patent and trademark applications and handling IP intensive transactions, to licensing and selling patents, rendering infringement and validity opinions and serving as a first chair IP litigator. His areas of technical focus include video games, computer software, bioinformatics, personalized medicine, optics, semiconductors, telecommunications, financial services, business methods and Internet-related inventions, including virtual worlds, user generated content, and social networking technologies.
Mr. Gatto started in the patent field in 1984 as a patent examiner in the electro-optics area. He has had leading roles in a number of national and local patent-related legal and industry organizations.
Over the years, he has been recognized by his peers as a top lawyer in his field—he is ranked as "AV" from Martindale Hubbell Law Directory, the highest rating given to participating attorneys. Since 2005, he has been ranked by Chambers USA as one of America's Leading Intellectual Property Lawyers in Northern Virginia. He was named a 2006 Virginia "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics and Richmond Magazine and, most recently, was included in the 2008 Washington DC Super Lawyers list, as well as in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in patent litigation and patent prosecution, the directory's highest recognition available.
Robert S. Blasi
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP
Areas of Practice
Robert Blasi is a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Business Law Department. As a patent attorney, he assists high-technology clients with open source software issues, intellectual property protection, licensing and intellectual property issues arising in corporate transactions.
Work for Clients
Mr. Blasi assists clients with issues relating to software licensed under “open source” licenses. This includes the development and implementation of appropriate internal usage policies and the treatment of open source issues arising in due diligence and corporate transactions. He also has significant experience developing and implementing patent portfolio strategies in the areas of computer software and hardware and business methods, both domestically and abroad. His portfolio clients range from incipient technology companies to members of the Fortune 1000.
Mr. Blasi’s transactional practice includes intellectual property licensing and opinion work addressing issues of freedom-to-operate, patentability, infringement, and validity. He regularly counsels clients concerning intellectual property issues arising in subscription agreements, acquisitions and asset purchases.
Mr. Blasi also assists trial counsel with patent issues that arise in the course of litigation. He has worked on patent litigation in the areas of computer software, computer hardware, cable television technologies, portable bar code printers, airplane security systems and e-commerce methods.
Professional Activities
Mr. Blasi has been named a “Massachusetts Rising Star” by Law & Politics magazine for the past three years. For several years he has served as a judge for Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court competition and the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition.
Mark F. Radcliffe
Partner
DLA Piper LLP
Mark Radcliffe is a partner and recently stepped down as co-chair of the Technology and Sourcing Group of DLA Piper USA, LLP. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. Radcliffe’s practice focuses on representing corporations in their intellectual property and finance matters. He has worked with many open source companies and is Chair of the Open Source Industry Group at the firm. He assisted Sun Microsystems in open sourcing the Solaris operating system and drafting the CDDL. And he represents other large companies in their open source matters including eBay, Accenture, Palm and Sony. He represents many open source startups including SugarCRM (the first venture backed open source applications company), DotNetNuke, Socialtext, Icesoft and rSmart, as their general outside counsel (including their financing and intellectual property matters), and represents Zimbra, Univa, Jaspersoft, Jitterbit, Hyperic, Compiere, Funambol, Clovis Solutions, Intalio, Qlusters and Laszlo Systems for intellectual property matters, He represented Siemens Venture Capital in their investment in MontaVista Software, Inc and Hummer Winblad and Morganthaler in their investment in MuleSource. He also serves as outside General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative and was the Chair of Committee C for the Free Software Foundation in reviewing GPLv3. He has spoken on open source issues at the Open Source Business Conference, Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel, American Corporate Counsel Association and O’Reilly Open Source Conference. In 1997, the National Law Journal named him one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in the United States. . He has been listed in the “The Best Lawyers in America,” 2005-2006 edition, as one of Northern California’s Top 100 intellectual property attorneys in “Super Lawyers,” San Francisco Magazine (2004), as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” in 2004 and Who’s Who Legal publication, “The International Who’ Who of Business Lawyers” in 2002. In 1998, Harvard Law School designated him a “Distinguished Alumni”. He has been quoted on intellectual property matters in Time Magazine, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News and the Daily Variety. Mr. Radcliffe has published articles in such legal magazines as the National Law Journal, Trademark World, Computer Lawyer, California Law Business and Copyright World. He writes frequently on his blog about open source matters at www.lawandlifesiliconvalley.com/blog.
Mario Madden
Open Source Licensing Counsel, Intellectual Property and Licensing
Microsoft Corporation
Mario Madden is Open Source Licensing Counsel for Microsoft where he provides counsel to Microsoft’s product development teams on open source legal and community issues and helps formulate Microsoft’s open source software policies and management infrastructure. Before that, he was the Open Source Research and Policy Lead for Microsoft’s Platform Community Strategy Team. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mario was Senior Counsel at the Seattle office of Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt where he specialized in complex civil litigation and appeals. He holds a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law and an M.A. and B.A. in philosophy from University of Arizona.
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