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Reed Smith adds IP/Transactional partner in Los Angeles

By Richard Binder

Reed Smith today announced the addition of former Thelen partner Rauer Meyer to its Business & Finance group.  He will be resident in the firm?s Los Angeles office, effective immediately.

Mr. Meyer?s practice focuses on the development, protection, licensing, and other commercialization of technology, and the manufacture, procurement and distribution of technology products and services across a broad range of industries.

Prior to moving to Thelen?s Los Angeles office in 2006, he was resident in its San Francisco office. Mr. Meyer?s experience includes negotiating and drafting complex outsourcing and internet transactions, such as Web site development, hosting, and maintenance arrangements; co-marketing, infrastructure licensing, content acquisition and protection; and customer sale transactions and privacy policies.

His IP practice includes the protection of rights in technology, trademarks, software, copyrights, and trade secrets associated with his transactional practice. He also has broad experience with, and current client matters involving, western companies that need IP protection while doing business in China.

A 1973 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Meyer was a partner at Thelen for more than two decades.

Mr. Meyer is one of three lawyers comprising a third wave of Reed Smith attorneys from Thelen.  A renewable energy group led by Ellen Bastier in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York?and a labor and employment group, led by Tom Hill and Linda Husar in Los Angeles, and Deborah Broyles in San Francisco?also joined the firm recently.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).