Top Rated Intellectual Property Attorney in Atlanta, GA

Honors/Awards:

• Graduated Cum Laude from the University of Georgia Law School.
• Member of Law Review Editorial Board

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Board of the  Intellectual Property Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. (2007 - 2011).  Formerly co-Chair and then Chair of a subcommittee of the American Bar Association focused on the domain naming system and conflicts between it, on the one hand, and rights of trademark and service mark owners, on the other hand.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Active Member of the Life Sciences/Medical Commitee of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Board of Directors of IMAGE (now known as the "Atlanta Film Festival 365"), which produces the Atlanta Film Festival, for 6 years.  Member of the Board of the Georgia Chapter of the International Interactive Communications Society for many years and was Chair of the first Atlanta Interractive Media Expo in 1995.

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

• This article provides a summary of the law relating to general common law and statutory privacy and publicity rights., Author, Privacy and Publicity Rights in Interactive Media, 1st Version - Cutting Edge Music Conference, 1997; 1st Revision - Multimedia & Technology Licensing Law Report, 1998; 2nd Revision - NBI Program, 2000 , 2000
• --- In the late summer of 2011 Rob started a website with the domain name: TellmesomthingIdontalreadyknow.com.   On this site are transcripts of Rob’s interviews with many interesting people and articles written by Rob including one that he co-wrote which explains how Version 2 of the GNU General Public  License   affects  the rights of people that use it.                                                                                                  , Co-author, Version 2 of the General Public License, 2011
•    — Rob has written and/or co-written many other scholarly articles.  Summaries and links to some of his most widely read articles are below. The incentives of executives of Bear Stearns, as was and continues to be true for the surviving Wall Street firms, was and is to take substantial risk with their investors', and indirectly the taxpayer's money.  In this article Rob suggests enacting legislation to partially correct those incentives.  , Author, Why Bear Stearns' Collapse Was Inevitable, Daily Report , 2010
• This guest column concerns the problems with and ways to curb excessive executive pay., Author, Curbing excessive pay, board clout of executives would help business, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2009
• This article addresses the 5 legal mistakes most often made by business people in connection with the development and posting of their websites., Author, Insights into law - The five most common legal mistakes involving commercial Web sites, Business to Business Magazine - print and online editions, 2008
• — In 2008 and 2009 Rob conducted about 15 interviews for BtoBMagazine.com.    People interviewed include (links are to transcripts) the manager of a very successful mutual fund about the stimulus package, the District Director of the SBA for Atlanta, the manager of a venture capital fund, the director of the Atlanta Technology Angels, an economist who focuses on China, a Georgia Tech researcher in sustainable energy, a Georgia Tech researcher in biomechanical engineering and a leading bankruptcy expert..
• This article provides a history of the creation of the internet, how it grew and its status when the article was written in 1998.  The way it operates has not changed much since the article was written., Author, Governing the Internet, Paper for Seminar Sponsored by the National Business Institute, 1998
• Rob has been a featured speaker or panelist about copyright, trademark, technology, entertainment and internet law on more than 75 occasions. Sponsors of Rob's presentations include PLI, National Business Institute, Fast Company Magazine, Georgia Tech, the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia and Law Seminars International. Locations have included Atlanta, Costa Rica, Dana Point, CA, Beverly Hills, CA, St. Simons Island, Georgia, Costa Rica and New York. A list of many of those engagements are set forth on this web page.

Transactions:

• Rob has acted as legal counsel for many transactions especially mergers and acquisitions which involve intellectual property rights.  His policy is not to disclose information about those transactions.  One reason is that in many cases disclosure requires permission from the acquirer.

Representative Clients:

• Representative clients include Street Resource Group aka SRG (a leading provider of software products and online services for the mortgage industry), Anna Griffin, Inc. (a leading provider of  stationery and scrapbooking products), the World's Fastest Drummer competitions (with, among other things, over 9 million views of videos on YouTube about the competitions) and Flau'jae, a very popular recording artist and the daughter of  recording artist Camouflage.  Typical comments include this from the CEO of SRG:   Rob has been our lawyer since 2004. .... I consider him to be an indispensable part of our team....       AND this from the mom/manager of Flau'jae:  "I feel that my daughter has one of the best entertainment lawyers in the game right now...., 2019

Newsletters:

• Rob sends out an eNewsletter that refers to his articles and podcasts that were most recently published or posted.  It is currently opt-in only.  It is distributed to about 500 people.  Here is a link to a copy of one issue.  Links to other eNewsletters are available on the home page of Rob's Website: www.internetlegal.com.

Educational Background:

• Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, Co-op Program, from Georgia Tech.  JD from the University of Georgia.