Leading National Authority on Intellectual Property and Internet Law
Joins Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles and Silicon Valley Offices
LOS ANGELES AND PALO ALTO, CA -- November 7, 2005 --
Ian C. Ballon, one of California’s
top intellectual property attorneys who is also an acknowledged authority
on Internet law and e-commerce, has joined Greenberg Traurig LLP as as a
shareholder in its Los Angeles and Palo Alto offices. Ballon’s clients include
e-Bay, Inc., Knight-Ridder, Inc. (and its chain of national newspapers including
The San Jose Mercury News), Fujitsu America, The San Jose Sharks
NHL hockey team, EMI Records, Twentieth Century FOX Film Corporation and
Universal Studios. At Greenberg Traurig, Ballon will continue to represent
entertainment, technology and media companies in complex digital copyright,
trade secret, trademark, domain name, database and Internet-related litigation
and counseling.
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“Ian has been on the leading edge of developments in Internet law and
e-commerce in addition to establishing an outstanding reputation as skilled
litigator for a wide range of intellectual property matters,” said
Terence Clark, Co-Chair
of Greenberg Traurig’s IP Practice. “He joins a broad-based intellectual
property practice at Greenberg Traurig that now boasts more than 40 members
in California and 165 firmwide. His knowledge and experience will further
expand our capabilities and be an invaluable resource to clients in California,
as well as on a national and international level.”
Formerly co-chair of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP’s national intellectual
property & Internet practice group, Ballon will continue to split his time
between both Palo Alto and Los Angeles and will be resident in Greenberg
Traurig’s offices in both cities. Mr. Ballon has served as lead counsel
to major companies in a diverse array of matters involving issues such as
copyright fair use, the proper application of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act for conduct occurring over the Internet, secondary copyright and trademark
liability, source code infringement, trade secret misappropriation, wrongful
diversion of Internet traffic, unfair competition in cyberspace, domain
name infringement, dilution and cybersquatting, phishing and pharming, violations
of the CAN-SPAM Act and privacy and security. He also has represented clients
in numerous cases brought against anonymous and pseudonymous tortfeasors
and infringers. In addition, Ballon has successfully resolved putative copyright
and Internet class action suits.
Ballon, the author of the best selling legal treatise, E-Commerce
and Internet Law: A Legal Treatise With Forms (LegalWorks/ West 3 volumes,
2001 & 2005 Supp., www.ballononecommerce.com),
is also an accomplished writer and speaker on intellectual property and
Internet law issues. Among other things, he is the featured speaker at the
annual CEB/State Bar of California program “Ballon on Intellectual Property
and Internet Law and Litigation Strategy,” which is held each January in
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Ballon currently serves as executive director of the Stanford University
Law School Center for E-Commerce which is designed to provide a forum for
scholars, policymakers and business executives to exchange ideas and discuss
emerging issues in electronic commerce law. The center hosts outreach programs
and collaborates with faculty and students from other universities to advance
interdisciplinary e-commerce research and policymaking. He has served as
an advisor to the American Law Institute’s International Intellectual Property
Jurisdiction Project since 2002 and is a member of the GRAMMY® Foundation’s
Entertainment Law Initiative Advisory Committee He also is a council member
of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology.
He has been named among the top intellectual property litigation lawyers
in Northern California Super Lawyers for the past several years,
and is listed in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America
in intellectual property and information technology. He also was named one
of the world’s leading lawyers in the 2005 Technology, Media and Telecommunications
Expert Guide.
Ballon graduated with honors in 1986 from The George Washington
University National Law Center, where he was Articles Editor of The George
Washington Journal of International Law and Economics, and he has an
LL.M in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law
Center.
“Greenberg Traurig has one of the strongest entertainment and media practices
in the country and is rapidly developing a significant footprint in Silicon
Valley. I am very excited about the caliber and diversity of the firm’s
national and international IP, technology and media practices which will
provide me ample opportunity to better serve my clients and expand my practice,”
said Ballon.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with 1,500
attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The
firm is ranked seventh on The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 listing of the
largest law firms in the U.S., based on number of lawyers.
Greenberg Traurig serves clients from offices in: Albany, NY; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Atlanta, GA; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver,
CO; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL;
Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Orange County, CA; Orlando, FL; Philadelphia, PA;
Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; Silicon Valley, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Tokyo, Japan;
Tysons Corner, VA; Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach, FL; Wilmington, DE; and Zurich,
Switzerland. Additionally, the firm has strategic alliances with the following independent
law firms: Olswang, London and Brussels; Studio Santa Maria, Milan and Rome; and
Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices in Tokyo.
For additional information, please visit the firm's Web site at
www.gtlaw.com.
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