WILLIAM A. FENWICK, Privacy and Security, Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution, Patent, Licensing, Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret : Fenwick & West LLP

WILLIAM A. FENWICK

Emphasis

		Privacy and Security
		Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution
		Patent
		Licensing
		Copyright
		Trademark
		Trade Secret

Profile

Mr. Fenwick first began litigating technology disputes in 1968. Technology transfer, development contracts, taxation, licenses, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secrets, distribution and antitrust disputes have been the priority of his practice for over 30 years. Since 1992 he has been involved in a number of Internet-related matters as well as online commerce and communications.

Education

Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., Order of the Coif, 1967

Southern Illinois University, B.S. in business management, with honors, Beta Gamma Sigma, 1964

Admitted to Practice

Member of the State Bar of California. Admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of California and in the Courts of Appeals in the 2nd, 7th and 9th Circuits, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Additional Information

In the early 1970's, 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 Practising 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.

Representative Clients

		Apple Inc.
		California Casualty Management Company
		Data East Corporation
		Excite Inc.
		Symantec Corporation

WILLIAM A. FENWICK

Partner,
Litigation Group

P: 650.335.7200
F: 650.938.5200

bfenwick@fenwick.com

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