GREGORY ALAN RUTCHIK Piracy and Copyright Infringement Litigation Gregory Alan Rutchik, Esq. The Arts and Technology Law Group Three Embarcadero Center, Suite 609 San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone. 415-399-9440 or 888-399-9007 Fax. 415-399-9444 Cell. 650-224-2621 Email: gregory@rutchik.com Website:  www.TheArtsAndTechnologyGroup.com

Gregory Alan Rutchik is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Department located in our San Francisco Office.

Gregory's practice focuses on litigating on behalf of established private technology-based companies or creators that are authors or publishers, have branded products, provide technical services, or license software or technology. His aggressive litigation style is meted by his experience as a transactional lawyer, his interest in technology and business practicality.  Attorney Rutchik's clients may be concerned by a competitor's actions, an employee who leaves with copies of their files or a business partner who fails to live up to its promise. Attorney Rutchik also has experience defending professionals that have been accused of promoting tax shelters. Gregory is comfortable in both State and Federal Court, as well as various arbitration fora.

Gregory's transactional practice focuses on preparing and negotiating a diverse set of agreements to commercialize, develop and distribute software and information technology. His experience includes general commercial and contractual law issues, in and out licensing and distribution agreements, technology development and maintenance agreements, agreements for technology related consulting services, telecommunications services and complex information technology outsourcing agreements. Current and former clients include children's book authors, managed infrastructure service providers, parking garage access control manufacturers, web hosts, adult entertainment businesses, embedded systems on a chip IC design firms, and manufacturers of branded computer accessories and men's grooming products.

He received a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1987. Gregory lived in Tokyo for two years after college and worked as a financial analyst first at the Bank of Tokyo's Dainana Securities and then at American Express Japan. After graduating from Temple Law School in Philadelphia, PA in 1992, Gregory returned to Japan as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Law where he applied his fluent Japanese to the study of the licensing of information technology among Japanese companies.  Gregory joined Ostrolenk, Faber in New York specializing in patent and copyright litigation and advising clients of obtaining trademarks and branding. In 1998, Gregory joined the Information Technology Practice Group of Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto, California - a transactional practice - and then joined two clients as corporate counsel Noosh, Inc. and Loudcloud, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPSW). Most recently, Gregory was a partner in the firm Idell, Seitel & Rutchik LLP a full service entertainment and technology litigation and transactional practice located in San Francisco. In 2005, Gregory was awarded an LLM in Tax law with Honors from Golden Gate University, San Francisco. 

Gregory is a member of the State Bar of California, the State Bar of Connecticut, the State Bar of New York, the Bar of the District of Columbia and the American Bar Association. He is currently the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Sub-Committee on Copyrights: Pictorial, Graphic and Sculptural Works and the Co-editor of ATLA's Business Tort Section's Newsletter. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Region of the Anti-Defamation League. and a member of AIPAC's Washington Club.

Gregory has written extensively on topics of Internet law, e-commerce, obscenity, and copyright and enjoys public speaking. He also contributes to his blog at http://theartsandtechnologygroup.blogspot.com .

Education:

Rutchik received a J.D. in 1992 from the Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Dean's List. He received a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1987.

Atty. Rutchik was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Law from 1992 - 1993. His focus was the Licensing of technology by Japanese information technology companies. Upon completing his Fulbright, he published some of the results of his research in a work entitled Japanese Research Projects and Intellectual Property Rights (US Commerce Department, 1996). Rutchik has traveled throughout the world, lived in Tokyo for four years and speaks and reads fluent Japanese. He is also conversant in French.

Temple Law School J.D. 1992
Philadelphia, PA USA
Honors: Dean’s List, Albert Friedman Prize for Research

Skidmore College, B.A., l987
American Studies/Minor Finance

University of Tokyo; Fulbright Fellow 1992-1993

Bar Admissions and Years:

New York 1992
Connecticut 1993
District of Columbia 1993
California 1998
U.S. District Court New York 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals New York 1994

Past Employment:

Cooley Godward 1997-2000

Percentage of practice devoted to litigation:

60%

Title:

Associate; Technology Transaction Group

Published Works:

Attorney Rutchik's practice focuses on preparing and negotiating a diverse set of agreements to commercialize, develop and distribute software and information technology. His experience includes general commercial and contractual law issues, in and out licensing and distribution agreements, technology development and maintenance agreements, agreements for technology-related consulting services, telecommunications services and complex information technology out sourcing agreements. Current and former clients include public and private entities in business ranging from managed infrastructure service providers, embedded OS developers and consumer products to Palm software applications. See representative clients below.

Attorney Rutchik thrives on playing a business development role and has assisted several clients identify, structure and maintain successful partner-side relationships. A more extensive list of representative work is set forth below.

Japanese Research Project 1994
US Commerce Department

US Transfer Pricing 1994

International Pacific Bar Assn.

Offices Held:

Anti-Defamation League 2001
Board Member, Central Pacific Region

American Bar Association 1993

New York Bar Association 1993

California Bar Association 1998

San Francisco Bar Association 2002

Honors & Awards:

Fulbright Fellow; University of Tokyo, Fall 1992-1993

Representative Clients and Industries:

Signius Communications
Blue Nomad
Juniper Hosting
Extension Media LLC

Foreign Language:

Japanese

Taught or Instructed:

Fair Use under Copyright Act
Accommodation under Title VII

Publications:

Gregory Rutchik has published various articles including:

Date of Birth:

Norwich, Connecticut USA 1965