| MICHAEL R. BLUM |
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Patent Prosecution |
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Patent Litigation Support |
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Intellectual Property Counseling |
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Technology Transactions |
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Privacy and Data Security |
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| Profile |
Mr. Blum is resident in the San Francisco office and his practice concentrates on structuring and negotiating relationships to turn technology and intellectual property into revenue. He serves clients in a broad range of industries including semiconductor, telecommunications, networking, enterprise and consumer software, and the Internet.
Mr. Blum specializes in strategic patent counseling. He has considerable experience helping clients to develop, understand and wield their patent portfolios through audit and analysis, sale, acquisition, licensing, prosecution and litigation. He also negotiates multiple complex licensing, development, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and outsourcing relationships. In support of mergers and acquisitions, such as the $4B acquisition of Netscreen by Juniper Networks, Mr. Blum focuses on the assessment, valuation and allocation of risk.
In addition, Mr. Blum heads the firm's transactional privacy and data security practice. He helps clients confront and manage the international risks associated with handling consumer and employee information. Mr. Blum recently presented on corporate privacy, data protection and security issues at the 24th annual Santa Clara Computer and High Tech Law Journal Symposium, "Privacy in the Information Age."
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| Education |
Stanford Law School, J.D., 1999 University of Michigan, B.S.E., computer engineering, magna cum laude, 1993
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| Admitted to Practice |
Member of both the California Bar and the U.S. Patent Bar. |
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| Additional Information |
Mr. Blum worked several years in management consulting as a technology and business analyst. While at Stanford, he co-founded the Stanford Technology Law Review and served as its first director of submissions.
Mr. Blum's speaking engagements include:
Interactions of Legal and Business Imperatives: Patents and Open Source in Mergers and Acquisitions. Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley Law School), March 2009.
Data Privacy in the Cloud. Cornell Entrepreneurship Network, March 2009.
U.S. Technology Law in the Global Context. TechLaw Madrid, September 2006.
Privacy in the Information Age. Santa Clara University Computer and High Technology Law Journal Symposium, January 2006.
He was quoted in the article, "How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy Rules" in the June 2009 issue of CIO magazine. |
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Apple Inc. |
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Arithmatica, Inc. |
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Barclays Global Investors |
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BitTorrent, Inc. |
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Frito-Lay North America, Inc. |
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Glimmerglass Networks, Inc. |
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IGN Entertainment, Inc. |
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Informatica Corporation |
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Kace Networks, Inc. |
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PepsiCo, Inc. |
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Posit Science Corporation |
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Quantcast Corporation |
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SECURUS Technologies, Inc. |
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SuccessFactors, Inc. |
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Ubicom, Inc. |
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