Fenwick & West, LLP
STUART P. MEYER
Partner,
Intellectual Property Group,
Litigation Group

P: 650.335.7286
F: 650.938.5200
smeyer@fenwick.com
Emphasis
  • Patent, Copyright, Trade Secret Protection
  • Strategic Intellectual Property Planning
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Intellectual Property Audits
  • Counseling in Related Areas
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    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 was recently named one of The Best Lawyers in America 2011 in Information Technology Law. He was also 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 and 2010.

    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
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