Select Transactions

AI and Machine Learning

• Represented C3.ai in commercial agreements with enterprise customers for deployment of C3’s suite of AI applications
• Represented Nuance Communications in numerous strategic commercial agreements, including with major smartphone OEMs for Nuance’s conversational AI software and solutions, and with IBM for advanced speech recognition solutions

Cloud Computing

• Advised Salesforce in connection with strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Salesforce’s use of AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider
• Represented CloudSimple, Inc. in strategic alliance with Microsoft for the integration of CloudSimple’s managed service with Microsoft’s Azure, allowing users to run VMware natively on Azure
• Advised Weaveworks in connection with strategic partnership with AWS for Kubernetes cloud management
• Represented numerous private companies in agreements to move infrastructure to public-cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Semiconductors/Hardware

• Represented private developer of machine-learning application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in supply agreement with public-cloud provider

Automotive/Autonomous Vehicles

• Represented FREYR AS in license and services agreement for the implementation and use of 24M Technologies’ SemiSolid lithium-ion battery platform technology in FREYR’s planned facilities in Mo i Rana, Norway
• Represented developer of autonomous vehicle technology in license and services agreement with LiDAR technology developer.

Fintech

• Represented numerous technology providers in sales of software, SaaS and data products to financial institution customers

IoT and Connected Devices

• Represented Plume Design, Inc. in strategic collaboration with Comcast for the development and integration of in-home adaptive WiFi products and services
• Represented Netgear, Inc. in numerous commercial agreements involving the development and commercialization of Netgear’s home-networking products and services

Communications Technology

• Advised Dolby Laboratories in collaboration agreement with Blue Jeans Network integrating Dolby’s in-person surround sound technology into Blue Jeans’ video meetings platform

Digital Healthcare

• Represented Vynca in collaboration with Cerner Corporation for the integration of Vynca’s advance-care planning solutions with Cerner’s Millenium® EHR
• Represented Nuance Communications in numerous commercial agreements with healthcare organizations for Nuance’s speech-recognition, transcription, clinical-documentation and diagnostic software and solutions

Strategic Life Sciences Collaborations and Licenses

• Represented a public biotechnology company in collaborations with various third parties for the development and commercialization of innovative drug-device combination products using the third parties’ platform devices to deliver formulations of client’s drug products
• Represented ATP, a leading life sciences venture capital firm, in matters relating to the formation and financing of Aulos out of Biolojic Design, including Aulos’ collaboration and license agreement with Biolojic Design for the development of highly differentiated interleukin-2 (IL-2)-binding monoclonal antibodies as therapeutics against solid tumors
• Represented United Therapeutics Corporation in $1.2 billion global license agreement with Arena Pharmaceuticals for Arena's Phase 3 investigational drug candidate, ralinepag, a next-generation, oral, selective, and potent prostacyclin receptor agonist in development for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
• Represented United Therapeutics Corporation in worldwide exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement with Mannkind Corporation for the development and commercialization of a dry powder formulation of treprostinil for the treatment of PAH
• Represented United Therapeutics Corporation in its exclusive license agreement with Samumed for North American rights to Samumed’s SM04646, a Wnt pathway inhibitor developed for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)

Collaborations with Government-Owned Research Institutions

• Represented Type One Energy Group on terms of its award from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance Type One’s stellarator-based nuclear fusion energy-generation system 
• Represented numerous clients in cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) with government-owned research institutions, including the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (to develop, evaluate, or conduct studies with respect to therapeutic and diagnostic products),

Complex Technology Carve -Out Transactions

• Represented Dolby Laboratories, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of GE Licensing in a $429 million all-cash transaction involving over 5,000 patents, including key patents in video compression technology
• Represented Seagate in sale of intellectual property and equipment assets to a subsidiary of Broadcom
• Represented the management team of Careem Technologies in connection with spin out and $400 million sale of majority stake in Careem’s “Super App” business to Emirates Telecommunications Group Company
• Represented Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc. in sale and license of assets, including a broad portfolio of intellectual property assets, to CardioFocus, Inc.
• Represented NucleusHealth as seller’s counsel in sale of cloud-native imaging and workflow technology platform, Nucleus.io, to Change Healthcare
• Represented LinkedIn as seller’s counsel in sale of Slideshare presentation-sharing service to Scribd
• Represented Technicolor as buyer’s counsel in $600 million acquisition of assets associated with Cisco’s connected devices business, including the purchase of patents and the negotiation of complex cross licenses
• Represented Netgear as buyer’s counsel in $138 million acquisition of assets associated with Sierra Wireless’s Aircard business, including the purchase of patents and the negotiation of complex cross licenses

Patent Portfolio Acquisitions and Sales

• Represented InterDigital as seller’s counsel in the sale of approximately 1,700 patents and patent applications to Intel Corporation for $375 million
• Represented Nuance Communications in numerous patent transactions, including the acquisition of 1,027 patents from AT&T, and in the acquisition of speech-related patents from IBM
• Advised Daqri, LLC on sale of patent portfolio and related assets
• Represented private-company developer of computer hardware components as seller’s counsel in divestiture of patent portfolio

Select Publications

• Co-author, “DoD Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Contractors' Data Rights Protections Extended to 20 Years, Government Rights Limited Thereafter,” Wilson Sonsini Alert, June 16, 2020

• Co-author, "Delaware Chancery Court in Meso Scale v. Roche: Reverse Triangular Merger Does Not Trigger Consent Requirements in Assignment Provisions," Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Alert, March 1, 2013
• Co-author, "Understanding Technology Licensing Opportunities at DOE Labs," Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Clean Tech Resource Center, April 7, 2010
• Co-author, "Understanding Government Award Options," Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Clean Tech Resource Center, October 28, 2009

Select Speaking Engagements

• Guest Lecturer, Technology Transactions, Cornell Law School’s Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM Program at CornellTech, 2016-2021

• “Licensing & Insolvency, an International Perspective,” Co-Presented with Taylor Wessing, July 8, 2020

• Panelist, "Legal Practicum on Technology: Software Patent Debate," Cornell University Graduate School (Tech Campus), New York, New York, February 2013
• "Legal Issues in Cloud Computing," Kloud Camp Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Fall 2011-2012
• "What Is Cloud Computing?," AIPLA Mid-Winter Institute, Orlando, Florida, January 2011
• "Improvement Provisions in License Agreements," ACI - Technology Licensing Agreements Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2010