I have thirteen years experience in intellectual property law, including:• Evaluating intellectual property in connection with acquisitions and divestitures,• Drafting and negotiating acquisition and divestiture agreements• Copyright registration• Copyright issues in software development, including acquisition of rights from independent contractors and integration of open source and proprietary/commercial,• Software licensing: Open source and traditional, incoming and outgoing, and compliance,• Software audits,• General contract work – including drafting and negotiating; private and governmental entities (including Federal Acquisition Regulations); national and international,• Patent and copyright litigation and litigation support,• Formal and informal patent clearance, invalidity, and non-infringement opinions,• Patent prosecution, especially in software and the mechanical arts,• Trade secrets,• Right of publicity/Right of persona