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Jeffrey C. Johnson

Jeffrey Johnson is a partner specializing in the transactional aspects of technology and intellectual property exploitation (patents, trade secrets, trademarks and copyright) including, in particular, all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, joint development and marketing agreements, private placements and licensing in the biotech, entertainment, Internet, pharmaceutical, software and telecommunications industries. 

Jeffrey typically focuses on transactional matters principally involving intellectual property or goods and services the value of which are largely attributable to intellectual property. Representative assignments include:

• Representation of Lady Gaga in her investment in The Backplane, as reported in The New York Times on June 6, 2011
• Representation of a private equity fund in connection with the acquisition and disposition of patent portfolios and related assets
• Representation of a public biotechnology company negotiating and documenting numerous strategic alliances, research and development collaborations, co-promotion agreements, patent and know-how licenses, and other agreements relating to the development and exploitation of the company's core technologies
• Representation of a public telecommunications company in connection with a strategic reorganization to maximize the value of its patent portfolio and licensed rights
• Representation of a "file sharing" website operator in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a sale of substantially all of its assets to a foreign file sharing website operator
• Representation of a pharmaceutical company's bioinformatics group negotiating and documenting numerous strategic alliances, software development agreements and software licenses, as well as the group's form agreements for the provision of bioinformatics services and the licensing of genomic and proteomic databases
• Representation of a technology-transfer company in connection with the sale of a portfolio of patents governing web-enabled software updating, active desktop and offline browsing
• Representation of a telecommunications company in connection with its sponsored research agreements with various U.S. and foreign educational institutions
• Representation of a health services company in connection with the purchase of an information management business including a large, proprietary prescription drug database
• Representation of a European-based public company in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a strategic alliance providing for the joint development and commercialization of an ASP-based software application useful for the on-line calculation, reporting and remittance of sales tax obligations
• Representation of a public pharmaceutical company in connection with the disposition of certain patent portfolios and related clinical data and know-how useful in connection with small molecule anti-genomic therapeutics and small molecule anti-bacterial therapeutics
• Representation of a privately held company in connection with the exploitation of a large portfolio of music rights via alternative media including Internet portals, mobile virtual networks and other wireless products and services
• Representation of a public biotechnology company in connection with the negotiation and documentation of agreements providing for the further clinical development and commercialization of a Phase I pharmaceutical compound in collaboration with a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company 

Jeffrey has been an invited speaker and panelist at a variety of public and private events.

Previous Positions

• BTG International, Inc.,Vice President for Legal and Patents (1994-99)
• New York City Economic Development Corp., Counsel (1992-94)
• Law Offices of Dr. Mujahid M. Al Sawwaf, Associate (1989-91)
• Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, Associate (1987-89)
• Holm & Christensen, Associate (1984-87)

Publications

• Co-Author (with Robert deBrauwere and Jill Braibanti), FTC Proposes Overhaul to Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, Pryor Cashman Legal Update (January 2012)
• Author, The AOL Huffington Post Deal:  The End of the Beginning of the Transition?, Acquisition International Magazine (June 28, 2011)
• Author, Evaluating IP Assets in an M&A Transaction, The Deal (May 28, 2010)
• Author, Registered Agents Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Pryor Cashman Legal Update (July 2009)
• Editorial Board member, Internet Law & Business (2008 – present)
• Co-author (with Steven Pierce and David Parsly), Database M&A - What's Different, 3 Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal 128 (Spring 2008) 
• Co-author (with Amanda Stevens), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-Compliant Merger and Acquisition Transactions, 2 Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal 355 (Summer 2007)
• Co-Author, United States, in World Online Business Law (Andrew F. Simpson & N.Stephan Kinsella, eds., 2007)
• Author, Statutes of Limitations Under New Civil Procedural Rules, 12 Middle East Executive Reports 9 (1989)

Distinctions

• Named as one of the "World's Leading Patent and Technology Licensing Practitioners" by Intellectual Asset Management magazine's, IAM Liscensing 250: The World's Leading Patent and Technology Licensing Practitioners (2010 and 2011 editions)

Other Activities

• Jeffrey provides pro bono legal services to the N.Y. Food Museum, a not-for-profit dedicated to encouraging people to think about the food they eat, and to Arc Finance, Ltd., a not-for-profit dedicated to promoting and expanding access to micro-finance opportunities for poor people and communities around the world