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Attorney, electrical engineer and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) working with the world’s top companies to build the world’s foremost privacy programs and launch and maintain cutting edge products that serve billions of users.

Representative EXPERIENCE

Data Privacy: Counsel product, engineering and executive teams regarding the ever-changing landscape of data privacy and cyber-security regulations. Draft privacy policies, perform data inventory analyses, data mappings, privacy audits and security audits and formulate best practices for data collection, data use, data retention and cyber-security to comply with various regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA). Build programs to respond to consumer rights requests.

Governmental Briefings: Engage with regulators globally to pre-brief on product launches and/or respond to inquiries (e.g., Federal Trade Commission, Irish Data Protection Commission, Brazilian Data Protection Authority).

Product Counseling: Engage in product design to identify and mitigate legal risks, with a focus on data privacy and intellectual property, by guiding product and engineering teams towards risk-calibrated implementations.

Intellectual Property Protection: Protect clients’ core innovations by educating product and engineering teams regarding intellectual property (patents, copyrights and trademarks) and trade secret protection, creating frameworks for employees to identify potential assets, formulating global Intellectual Property strategies, drafting patent applications, prosecuting those applications with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, and maintaining intellectual property portfolios.

Competitive Analysis: Advise clients regarding freedom to operate in light of the patent and trademark landscape and vet risk mitigating product re-designs.

Risk Mitigation by Product Design: Guide product redesigns to mitigate risk by educating product and engineering team regarding the applicable legal principles, working with the product team to identify risk-reducing alternate product designs, and vetting the alternate designs.

Licensing: Draft and negotiate various contracts (SaaS) with a focus on data privacy, intellectual property, warranties and data management provisions.

• Technology Transfers: Negotiate technology transfer and license agreements by evaluating the strength of any claims, relevant sales, historical licensing terms for similar technologies and relevant stakeholders and engaging in written and face-to-face licensing negotiations.

• SaaS Insourcing and Outsourcing: Negotiate agreements covering the creation and provision of software, taking into account intellectual property provisions, data privacy provisions and warranties of service.

Litigation: Defend clients in federal district and appellate courts against claims of patent infringement, copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, unjust enrichment and breach of contract.

Cancellation Proceedings: Defend clients against threatened patent infringement claims by challenging and invalidating the asserted patents in inter partes reviews before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.  

Corporate Restructuring: Counsel clients acquiring companies having substantial technology or data assets by performing due diligence to affirm the status and ownership over any intellectual property assets, assuring the transfer of all rights to fulfill the purpose of the acquisition, and assuring the integrity of any customer data being transferred.

Employment: Counsel clients regarding various employment related issues by, for example, updating employee handbooks, conducted internal investigations, counselling regarding employee privacy protections in the workplace, and counselling how to protect company data during employee departures.

Honors 

SuperLawyers, New York Metro Rising Star

DFA Spotlight on Flex

Bar admissions

NY State Bar

Patent Bar

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Certifications

Certified Information Privacy Professional/US, IAPP

Education

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Juris Doctor

Columbia University, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering