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Accomplished business attorney highly experienced in free and open source software, trademark law, and copyright law, as well as in advertising, marketing, licensing and commercial contracting. In-house experience at world headquarters for high technology companies; also outside counsel for a variety of tech companies from small startups to publicly traded multinationals. Author of numerous scholarly articles and of blog analyzing current intellectual property case law. Frequent speaker on open source software, copyright and trademark matters. (Full list at https://chesteklegal.com/about).Extensive experience in open source software, counseling both open source and proprietary companies on license compliance, managing the use of open source software, making contributions to open source projects and open sourcing projects, open source software policies and contributor agreements, and license compatibility. Also assist companies with the challenge of managing brand identity and consumer expectation in a culture rooted in free access.Currently Chair of the License Committee and Board Member of the Open Source Initiative.

Listed skills include Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation, Unfair Competition, Licensing, and 14 others.