Technology and Telecommunications

Adams and Reese has a multidisciplinary team that handles the wide range of issues presented by technology-intensive matters. The Internet has created unique business opportunities both for established companies expanding into new channels of commerce and for emerging companies implementing online business models.  As more companies venture online, we are there to escort them into the new marketplace, and for the tech-savvy companies, we are their e-business partner, addressing their Internet-related legal issues. The rapid-fire fashion of high-tech business necessitates responsiveness, pro-action and vigilance.

Representative areas

• Protection, exploitation and litigation of intellectual property rights
  
• Trademark, copyright, patent and trade secrets litigation
  
• Domain name disputes, including ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and ACPA (Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act)
  
• Website content disputes and litigation
  
• Security and disclosure issues
  
• Government regulation
  
• Technology licensing and strategic alliances
  
• Negotiation of strategic alliances, joint venture and co-branding relationships
  
• Business method and Internet-related patent preparation and prosecution
  
• Monitoring web site exposure and drafting terms of use
  
• Counseling on privacy issues and drafting related documents and policies
   

Representative experience

• Litigated claims for copyright, trademark, trade dress infringement and trade disparagement, including Internet-specific claims involving cybersquatting, cyberslamming and metatags.
  
• Represented clients in disputes involving patent, trade secret and unfair competition.
  
• Represented companies in claims involving hardware and software for computer-related components, software for flight simulators, hardware and software for communications network hubs (including routers and switches).
  
• Negotiated transactions ranging from multi-million dollar technology licenses or transfers, to Internet-related agreements for emerging companies.
  
• Counseled large and small companies on the development, management and protection of intellectual property and technology management, as well as infringement and validity of U.S. patents.
  
• Performed audits of intellectual property assets and strategies.

Contact Attorney:

Joel T. Galanter, Partner; Team Leader
Tel. 615.259.1064
joel.galanter@arlaw.com