Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP

Mark F. Radcliffe
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP
400 Hamilton Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: (650) 833-2266
Fax: (650) 327-3699
email: mradcliffe@graycary.com

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Practice Groups:
Licensing Team Chair, Intellectual Property and Technology;
Corporate & Securities;
Commercial Law & Financial Institutions;
International Group

Areas of Special Expertise:
Internet licensing, strategic intellectual property advice; corporate partnering; software licensing; private financing; copyright and trademark.

 

Recent Matters:
bullet Assisted major publisher to develop and implement a strategy for exploiting its works in multimedia and online media.
bullet Prepared program to develop compatible computer program using "clean room" procedures.
bullet Developed coordinated programs to protect intellectual property of a major semiconductor manufacturer and a large software company.
bullet Advised on worldwide trademark protection program for several clients, including owner of major children’s book characters.
bullet Negotiated several strategic alliances involving equity investment and technology license for semiconductors with large multinational company.
bullet Negotiated publishing contract and clearance issues for retrospective of major entertainment industry awards ceremony.
bullet Assist domain name registry in developing policy.
bullet Assisted in preparation of a suite of e-commerce agreements for a major multinational corporation.

Community & Professional Organizations:
bullet Listed in the 1999 Law Business publication, "An International Who’s Who of Internet and e-Commerce Lawyers"
bullet Named as one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers, National Law Journal, 1997
bullet Computer Law Association; Board of Directors
bullet Journal of Internet Law; Editor in Chief
bullet BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report, Advisory Board
bullet Computer Lawyer; Editorial Board
bullet Cyberspace Lawyer; Editorial Board
bullet Electronic Commerce and Law Report Advisory Board
bullet European Intellectual Property Review; Country Correspondent
bullet International Trademark Association
bullet South Bay Trademark Lawyer’s Association; Founder
bullet Bar Association of San Francisco; former Chairman of the Computer Law Section

Prior Professional Experience:
bullet Associate, Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, California, 1982-1986
bullet Law Clerk, Chief Judge of Southern District of California, 1981-1982

Education:
J.D. - Harvard Law School (1981)
B.S. - University of Michigan (Chemistry, magna cum laude, 1974)
University of Paris, Sorbonne (Certificate of Completion, 1972)

Joined Firm: 1986

Representative Publications:

  • Internet Law and Business Handbook; 2000
  • Journal of Internet Law: "Trademarks and Domain Names: New Weapons in the Battle Against Cybersquatting " with David Dolkas and Dan Cook, June 2000
  • The Copyright Society of the USA: "Convergence: Acquiring Rights to Existing Works for the Internet Under U.S. Law, February 2000
  • Legal Times: "Trading on Your Brand Name" with Dan Cook, February 2000
  • California Law Business: "Domain Names: ICANN and New Remedies Against Cybersquatting" with Maureen Dorney, October 1999
  • Copyright World: "The Technical Provisions of the DMCA", May 1999
  • Journal of Internet Law: "Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Forging the Copyright Framework for the Internet: First Steps", March 1999
  • National Law Journal: "Congress Helps Resolve ‘Net Copyright Issues", February 1999
  • CEB California Business Law Reporter: "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act", January 1999
  • National Law Journal: "Rights in New Media Arise From Old Precedents" with Ben Griebe, October 1998
  • Trademark World: "The Internet: New Issues for Trademark Strategy" with Michelle Harbottle, August 1997
  • Trademark World: "Trademarks in Cyberspace", May 1996
  • Practicing Law Institute: Copyright Ownership Issues; 1995
  • The Computer Lawyer: "Security Interests in Copyright: The New Learning", September 1990

Presentations:
bullet American Association of Publishers
bullet Seybold San Francisco Conference
bullet National Association of Broadcasters’ Multimedia World
bullet Game Developers’ Workshop
bullet Internet World
bullet American Society of Magazine Editors
bullet PLI Representing the New Media Company: 2000 (Chairman)

Representative Clients:
bullet NetRatings, Inc.
bullet Primedia, Inc.
bullet nCube, Inc.
bullet Sony Corporation
bullet E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co.
bullet Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

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