Richard Raysman Richard Raysman is a partner in the New York office of Holland & Knight LLP. Mr. Raysman is co-author of the two-volume treatises Computer Law: Drafting and Negotiating Forms and Agreements;Emerging Technologies and the Law: Forms and Analysis and Intellectual Property Licensing: Forms and Analysis, all published by LJP, and co-writes a monthly column on computer law for the New York Law Journal. Mr. Raysman is past Chair of the Business Law Section, the largest section of the New York State Bar Association, and is past Chair of its Finance Committee. He also chairs Corporate Counsel's annual Law Journal IP Trademark, Copyright & Licensing Counsel Forum. Prior to practicing law, he was a systems engineer for six years with IBM Corp. Mr.
Raysman concentrates his practice on Intellectual Property, including outsourcing and IP litigation, and was recently selected by Chambers as one of America's leading outsourcing lawyers. He is a member of the practical Law Company Advisory Board for Intellectual Property and Technology. Edward A. Pisacreta Edward A. Pisacreta is Associate General Counsel of New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was previously a partner at Holland & Knight where he specialized in technology law and related intellectual property issues. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating agreements in technology-related industries. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the newsletter from Law Journal Newsletters and is a member of its Board of Editors.
Mr. Pisacreta is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Brooklyn Law School. Prior to practicing law, he was a management consultant with Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young). Kenneth A. Adler Kenneth A. Adler is a partner in Loeb & Loeb, LLP.He concentrates his practice on complex outsourcing transactions and intellectual property matters, as well as on transactions relating to emergng technologies, telecommunications and computer law.His practice includes drafting and negotiating virtually all types of domestic and international outsourcing agreements, including business process, information technology and human resource outsourcing, as well as agreements relating to the development, supply, licensing, outsourcing, marketing and distribution of information technology and telecommunications products and services.
Mr. Adler is a member of the Computer Law Association, LISTNet (the Long Island Software and Technology Network), the Long Island Forum for Technology, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Nassau County Bar Association. Seth H. Ostrow Seth H. Ostrow is a partner and chair of Dreir LLP Patent Department. Previously he was a partner in the law firm of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, where he was co-chair of the firm intellectual property department.He specializes in patent litigation and prosecution, particularly in the fields of software, telecommunications and the Internet. He has argued Markman and other hearings, and has extensive experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications for inventions in interactive television, eCommerce, digital rights management, and other cutting edge technical fields; Mr.
Ostrow, who has been a computer programmer, has written extensively on topics relating to patent and trademark law and contributed significantly to the book Emerging Technologies and the Law: Forms; Analysis, published by LJP.