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"Deal Making & Litigating in a High Tech World," the Inaugural Fenwick & West Lecture in Intellectual Property by William A. Fenwick, '67
Mr. Fenwick first began litigating technology disputes in 1968, and his practice has focused on technology transfer, development contracts, taxation, licenses, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secrets, distribution and antitrust disputes for the past 40 years. Since 1992, he has been involved in a number of Internet-related matters as well as online commerce and communications.
In the early 1970s, when computer handling of personal information generated sufficient concern to coalesce libertarians, academicians and politicians, Mr. Fenwick traveled, spoke and wrote extensively on the need for rationality and caution in the flood of legislative proposals to regulate privacy and information handling. He appeared before various federal and state legislative committees to testify about proposed "privacy legislation," including the Privacy Act of 1974. He contributed to drafting changes to proposed legislation to eliminate undesirable side effects of the rush to regulate what were as yet uncharacterized activities involving information. He worked with WEMA (now AEA) to prevent the permanent retardation of the developing automation of information handling through the use of computers.
Mr. Fenwick has served as Chairman, EFT Transfer Committee, American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Inc. and was one of the initial members of the Committee on Electronic Legal Research, New York Bar Association. He has served as Chairman, Committee on Law Relating to Computers, Section on Science & Technology. He was Chair of the Practicing Law Institute's program on Computer Litigation for three years during which he was the editor of three volumes of working papers on various subjects related to law and technology. He co-authored the report on the use of technology in the courts for the California Future of the Courts Commission and was a member of the Court Technology Advisory Committee since its creation in 1992 until October 2004. He received the 2001 Bernard E. Witkin Award from the Judicial Council of California for his efforts assisting the courts in adopting information technology.
Mr. Fenwick's firm, Fenwick & West, has announced the establishment of a new Diversity and Public Interest Summer Associate Fellowship, which is available to up to two summer associates. Fellowship recipients will work for Fenwick & West for eight weeks and then be paid, at summer associate levels, by the firm to work with a public interest organization.
| Date/Time | Occurrence Details |
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| Date: Oct 11, 2007 Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM Cost: Details: | Moore Room |
