Internet Disputes Roster of NEUTRALS
Note: All panelists are on the AAA Roster of Neutrals and on the Technology or eCommerce panels.
Mr. Stephen W. Armstrong, Esq.
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
Philadelphia, PA
Armstrong handles trademark and copyright litigation and patent infringement matters. He provides advice on protection software for firms involved in licensing and development. He has experience with contract and intellectual property claims involving computer software and trade secrets.
Mr. Jonathan S. Bain, Esq.
Intangible Strategies
Gloucester, MA
Bain is one of the original arbitrators of domain name disputes under ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy. He has extensive experience with eCommerce issues from a technical, business, and legal perspective. Particular areas of legal expertise include trademarks and trade dress, copyrights, licensing and complex contractual issues, trade secrets and unfair competition, and cyber law.
Mr. Steven M. Bauer, Esq.
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP
Boston, MA
Bauer has over 15 years of experience in intellectual property litigation, including complex patent and software litigation involving electronics, software, and semiconductor circuits. His entire practice concentrates on intellectual property and licensing and representing high-technology companies. His intellectual property experience encompasses patent litigation, trademark licensing or trade secret, negotiation and licensing, and prosecution portfolio management.
Mr. Bernard J. Bonn III, Esq.
Dechert, Price & Rhoads
Boston, MA
Bonn primarily litigates technology, intellectual property, trade secret, and security law matters. Represents computer and software companies, as well as vendors, users, licensors, and licensees. Has arbitrated and tried jury and non-jury intellectual property and software licensing disputes.
Mr. Robert Sherman Bramson, Esq.
Bramson & Pressman
Conshohocken, PA
Bramson has spent most of the last 10 years engaged in law and business of licensing patents and technologies, primarily in electronics, computer, software, Internet, and telecommunications areas. In that regard, he has identified valuable patents and technologies, developed value extraction strategies for patents and technologies, valued patents and technologies, and created value extraction programs.
Mr. Michael D. Briggs, Esq.
Private Practice
La Jolla, CA
Briggs is primarily engaged in business law concentrating on telecommunications, international, and eCommerce law. He has negotiated and drafted merger and acquisition, divestiture, alliance, joint venture, project financing, licensing, technical assistance, non-disclosure and eCommerce contracts, and managed intellectual property (including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and know-how) in the U.S. and overseas for telecommunications, Internet, and high technology.
Mr. M. John Carson, Esq.
Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP
Los Angeles, CA
Primarily engaged in intellectual property law involving patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, contracts, licensing, international, worldwide, eCommerce, Internet, and unfair competition including litigation and entertainment law. Carson has technical expertise in electronics, computer hardware and software, electrochemical, optics, and electromechanical systems.
Mr. Terry L. Clark, Esq.
Harness, Dickey & Pierce
Reston, VA
Primarily engaged in patent, trademark, copyright, corporate, and computer law and more specifically, in litigating all forms of intellectual property rights. Clark negotiates and drafts agreements related to intellectual property including joint ventures, licenses, and computer-related contracts. He prepares and prosecutes patent, trademark, and copyright applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Mr. Michael H. Diamant, Esq.
Kahn, Kleinman, Yanowitz & Arnson Co., LPA
Cleveland, OH
Practice encompasses aspects of intellectual property, trade secrets, and computer-related law issues, including buying, selling, developing and licensing hardware, software and other technology. Diamant has represented clients in cases involving engineering, design, antitrust, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and contract. He is the chairman of his firm's Technology and Computer Law Group.
Mr. M. Scott Donahey, Esq.
Tomlinson, Zisko, Morosoli & Maser, LLP
Palo Alto, CA
Donahey has extensive experience in domain name dispute resolution. He has also litigated and arbitrated complex commercial disputes, including class actions relating to securities, toxic torts and large construction projects. He has particular expertise with intellectual property matters, and industry knowledge about computers, biotech, pharmaceuticals, and the licensing of various types of technology.
Mr. William A. Fenwick, Esq.
Fenwick & West
Palo Alto, CA
Fenwick has over 25 years of experience as a trial lawyer in large complex antitrust and high technology disputes concerning research and development contracts, intellectual property ownership, licensing, and other acquisition and distribution arrangements. He has published articles regarding copyright infringement, intellectual property, trade secret-copyright actions, and software marketing agreement disputes.
Mr. Harold D. Field, Jr., Esq.
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Minneapolis, MN
Field has over 40 years of experience as a civil trial lawyer specializing in intellectual property litigation and securities fraud litigation. His focus is now on patents, eCommerce, and legal ethics. Past practice has concentrated on intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and computer law cases.
Ms. Sandra Jo Franklin
Troy, MI
Franklin has 15 years of ADR experience, including hundreds of domain name arbitrations, and 20 years of experience in high-technology and computer law, Internet and e-commerce contracts and disputes, software licensing, intellectual property (patents, copyrights, and trademarks) protection and disputes, technology development and transfer, and international technology partnerships.
Mr. Alain Frecon
Leonard, Street and Deinard
Minneapolis, MN
Frecon has over 25 years of experience in commercial and business transactions including sale of goods, agencies and distributors, licensing, exchange of technologies, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He has engaged in legal practice in the U.S. and international commercial and contractual matters, intellectual property, trademarks, copyright, and related commercial disputes.
Mr. William D. Friend, Esq.
Friend, Hudak & Harris, LLP
Atlanta, GA
Friend is primarily engaged in computer and telecommunications law, finance, eCommerce, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and Internet law. He represents a variety of clients in computer software licensing and development agreements, system sales contracts, joint ventures and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and protection of trademarks, domain names, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Mr. Thomas D. Halket, Esq.
Bingham Dana, LLP
Larchmont, NY
Halket has over 25 years of experience in domestic and international, general corporate, and commercial law, specializing in eCommerce, computer, and other technology transactions as well as representing high technology companies. Practice concentrates on eCommerce and other computer and high technology issues, licensing and intellectual property, corporate and securities, commercial law, international law, arbitration, and dispute resolution.
Mr. John W. Harbin, Esq.
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy
Atlanta, GA
Harbin is primarily engaged in complex commercial and business litigation, particularly intellectual property claims for computer hardware and software companies, including trade secret, unfair competition, patent, copyright, and trademark; creditors' rights and lender liability disputes; and real property litigation.
Mr. Seymour E. Hollander, Esq.
Lucent Technologies
Millburn, NJ
Hollander has more than 40 years experience in all phases of intellectual property, particularly concerning patents. He is responsible for intellectual property licensing and litigation as AT&T's assistant general counsel, including oversight of more than 60 patent litigation cases and hundreds of patent license agreements. Supervisor of over 90 attorneys while serving as general patent counsel at Bell Labs.
Mr. Charles M. Hosch, Esq.
Strasburger & Price, LLP
Dallas, TX
Hosch has experience in litigation and counseling involving business contracts and disputes; technology and Internet-related issues; trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets; licensing and distribution; and unfair competition and business torts. Represents licensors and licensees of all types of intellectual property, as well as a variety of technology developers, vendors, and licensees.
Mr. Robert R. Hussey, Esq.
Robert R. Hussey Co., LPA
North Olmsted, OH
Hussey has more than 30 years of experience in technical issues, including product liability, computer, Internet, and intellectual property law. Litigation and counseling experience includes technology-related issues, software licensing, computers, trade secret, copyright, trademark, and patent matters.
Mr. Thomas J. Klitgaard
Dillingham & Murphy, LLP
San Francisco, CA
For 11 years, Klitgaard served as general counsel of two major Silicon Valley high technology companies. He handled complex patent, copyright, and trademark litigation and licensing, original equipment manufacturer, and distribution disputes. For 15 years he has been involved in eCommerce in his work at Tandem Computers, Inc. and later at Sega of America, Inc.
Mr. Louis J. Knobbe, Esq.
Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
Newport Beach, CA
Since 1962, Knobbe has had a full-time practice in all aspects of intellectual property, including domain name, trademark disputes and trade secret disputes, licensing, rendering infringement and validity opinions, and supervising the preparation and prosecution of patents, trademarks and copyrights. He has testified as an expert in intellectual property litigation and has also lectured in the field of intellectual property.
Mr. James R. Kyper, Esq.
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP
Pittsburgh, PA
The majority of Kyper's practice focuses on intellectual property, specifically trademark, trade secret, and patent litigation involving various technical disciplines from material engineering to computer related inventions. He has over 25 years of experience as a civil litigator specializing in patents, copyrights, trademark and trade secret, unfair competition, and technology licensing matters, as well as commercial and construction disputes.
Mr. Michael J. Malley
Formerly with Brown & Bain, PA
Phoenix, AZ
Malley has represented large electronic/computer clients in patent, trade secret, and copyright matters. Handled computer-related disputes between hardware and software vendors and customers. He has represented corporate defendants in several federal antitrust lawsuits filed by state and federal governments and private plaintiffs from 1976 through 1990 involving markets and pricing for computers, fine paper, and hospital services.
Mr. Alan T. McCollom, Esq.
Marger, Johnson & McCollom, PC
Portland, OR
McCollom has over twenty years of experience as a patent lawyer in all aspects of intellectual property. He has prepared and prosecuted numerous patent applications and litigated cases relating to enforcement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
Mr. Sheldon R. Meyer, Esq.
Fliesler, Dubb, Meyer & Lovejoy LLP
San Francisco, CA
Meyer has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law, including acquiring such rights before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office, licensing of such rights, and litigating such rights in federal court. He has been involved in the development of intellectual property strategies and portfolios for new and on-going technology based companies.
Mr. Bruce E. Meyerson
Bruce Meyerson PLLC
Phoenix, AZ
Meyerson has extensive experience in serving as an arbitrator in domain name disputes under the ICANN rules. He is chair of the American Bar Association eCommerce and ADR Task Force. This task force is a collaborative effort of the ABA and other international groups to develop standards and guidelines for the use of ADR to resolve eCommerce disputes.
Mr. Peter Michaelson
Michaelson and Wallace
Red Bank, NJ
Michaelson has been an active intellectual property practitioner since 1979 specializing in patent matters involving complex technology principally computer-based systems, software, communications and electronics; and, since 1992, an ADR neutral primarily handling intellectual property, information technology and related disputes. He is a member of several widely-recognized national and international arbitration and mediation panels, including the AAA Commercial Panel (technology), and Court appointed panels including the mediation and arbitration panels of the USDC EDNY and the mediation panel of the NJ Superior Court. Michaelson has also been an ICANN arbitrator since nearly the inception of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
Mr. Bruce E. O'Connor, Esq.
Christensen O'Connor Johnson & Kindness, PLLC
Seattle, WA
O'Connor has handled all aspects of intellectual property law including patentability and infringement evaluations. Has prepared and prosecuted patent applications in the U.S. and in foreign countries involving all types of technical subject matter. Conducted trademark availability and registrability evaluations; prepared and prosecuted trademark applications in the U.S. and abroad; and litigated numerous patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright disputes.
Mr. Gale R. Peterson, Esq.
Cox & Smith
San Antonio, TX
For over 20 years, Peterson has engaged in domestic and international patent, trademark and copyright law; computer law; domestic and international technology acquisition and licensing; joint ventures; venture financing; university licensing; trade regulation law including deceptive trade practices, antitrust and unfair competition; franchising; software protection and licensing; and commercial agreements involving technology.
Mr. Jesus Sanchelima, Esq.
Sanchelima & Associates
Miami, FL
Sanchelima is primarily engaged in commercial and intellectual property law litigation and prosecution including patent, trademark, corporate, contracts, and licensing law matters. Technical fields of patent practice include semi-conductors, digital circuitry, computers, electronics, and telecommunications.
Mr. Thomas F. Smegal, Jr., Esq.
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP
San Francisco, CA
Smegal has over 35 years of full-time practice in intellectual property law, which involved preparation and prosecution of over 1,500 U.S. patent and trademark applications. He has rendered over 300 infringement and validity opinions regarding U.S. patents. He participated as lead trial counsel and as testifying expert in numerous U.S. District Court trials involving patent validity and infringement.
Mr. Kent D. Stuckey, Esq.
Private Practice; Internet Transaction Solutions, Inc.
Columbus, OH
A former top executive at CompuServe, Stuckey consults on Internet and online issues regarding eCommerce and contracting, intellectual property, patent, copyright, defamation, regulatory and compliance matters, among other areas. He also has an extensive background in legal, business and financial issues related to information technology, systems development, and acquisition.
Mr. Peter S. Vogel, Esq.
Garder Wynne Sewell LLP
Dallas, TX
Vogel is exclusively engaged in a practice including computer contract disputes, eCommerce litigation, software development disputes, and computer outsourcing contracts. He is an adjunct professor in computer software and law of the Internet. As an experienced computer programmer on numerous operating systems, he has a unique ability to understand disputed technology issues and legal perspectives in arbitrations and mediations.
Mr. Alan S. Wernick, Esq.
Quarles & Brady LLC
Chicago, IL
Practice concentrates on computer law, Internet/eCommerce law, copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing law, with an emphasis on the legal business needs of the computer and information industries. Wernick is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of computer law and intellectual property law for computer industry executives, businessmen, lawyers, and other professionals.
Mr. Thomas Wyatt, Esq.
Sapiential Prime
San Francisco, CA
Wyatt has extensive legal experience dealing with intellectual property licensing and technology transfer matters including joint ventures and strategic alliances. He has extensive negotiation experience in disputes involving semiconductor device products liability, distributor and sales representative disputes, computer hardware performance, maintenance and warranty, software licensing, and royalty issues.
Mr. Gregg R. Zegarelli, Esq.
Zegarelli Associates
Pittsburgh, PA
Practice concentrates on computer (eCommerce, cyber law, domain names), commercial, corporate, copyright, trademark, and securities law, as well as corporate and commercial litigation.
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