STUART MEYER, Patent Protection, Copyright Protection, Trade Secret Protection, Strategic Intellectual Property Planning, Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property Audits, Counseling in Related Areas : Fenwick & West LLP

STUART P. MEYER

Emphasis

		Patent, Copyright, Trade Secret Protection
		Strategic Intellectual Property Planning
		Intellectual Property Litigation
		Intellectual Property Audits
		Counseling in Related Areas

Profile

Mr. Meyer counsels clients on intellectual property matters, including technology-based litigation, performing strategic intellectual property planning and intellectual property audits for technology companies, and securing patent, copyright, and other intellectual property rights.

His client portfolio includes a wide variety of technology companies, from small start-ups to multinational public companies. Mr. Meyer has also represented other organizations prominent in technology, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for which he served as counsel in litigation involving the so-called RSA encryption patent, considered to be fundamental to data privacy.

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., Director of Yale Law and Technology Association, 1988

Princeton University, M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science (field of study: information sciences and systems), 1985

Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. in electrical engineering, with full honors, 1982

Admitted to Practice

Member of the state bars of California and Vermont and a member of the bar for the District of Columbia and is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent attorney.

Additional Information

Mr. Meyer has been a guest lecturer on copyright law at the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law. He has contributed to books and authored numerous articles on intellectual property law. He is frequently invited to lecture on this topic throughout the United States and abroad. Mr. Meyer has been named to The International Who's Who of Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers, 2009 and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, 2010 published by Who's Who Legal. Intellectual Asset Management magazine includes Mr. Meyer in their IAM 250-The World's Leading IP Strategists guide for 2009.

Mr. Meyer was an electrical engineer with an engineering consulting firm in the telecommunications area before entering law school. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

His affiliations include the International Technology Law Association, formerly the Computer Law Association (of which he is a past president); the American Intellectual Property Law Association; the Intellectual Property Owners Association; the American Bar Association Section on Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law; the Association for Computing Machinery; and the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers.

Representative Clients

		ACNielsen
		Apple Inc.
		Canon Research Americas, Inc.
		Cisco Systems, Inc.
		Compuware Corporation
		GE Healthcare
		Glaxo Wellcome
		Google Inc.
		Intuit Inc.
		Palm, Inc.
		Sun Microsystems, Inc.
		Symantec Corporation

STUART P. MEYER

Partner,
Intellectual Property Group,
Litigation Group

P: 650.335.7286
F: 650.938.5200

smeyer@fenwick.com

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