Profile
Jack Russo is the managing partner of ComputerLaw Group LLP in Palo Alto, California. As an intellectual property attorney, he specializes in Internet and computer law and litigation, and leads the firm's entrepreneurship practice.
Mr. Russo devotes a portion of his practice to alternative dispute resolution, serving as an arbitrator, mediator and early neutral evaluator for the United States District Court, the Santa Clara County Superior Court and the American Arbitration Association, and as a judge pro tempore of the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Mr. Russo also received his MBA from Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the American Bar Association Science and Technology, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Sections, and his legal affiliations include the State Bar of California, the New York State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar.
Mr. Russo is a frequent lecturer on computer law topics and has given presentations to the American Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the Computer Law Association and the San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court.
About Jack Russo
Law School: UCLA School of Law
Admitted: 1980, California
Professional Webpage: www.computerlaw.com/bio/JackRusso.asp
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Arbitrator, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Member, American Bar Association, Science and Technology, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Sections
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York State Bar Association
- State Bar of California
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Washington
- California, 1980
- New York, 1981
- Hawaii, 1993
- Judge Pro Tempore, Santa Clara Superior Court, 1994
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- "Recent Developments in E-Commerce Law"
- "Ethical Considerations On the Internet"
- "Trade Secrets on the Internet and in Cyberspace"
- The Law of the Internet in California "An Internet Primer"
- Look and Feel in Computer Software
- The Law of Virtual Reality
- Legal Basics for Software CEOs
- Patent Litigation: Are You Asking the Right Questions?
- Trade Secret Litigation: Are You Asking the Right Questions?
- "Protection of Computer Software After the Copyright Act of 1980", Co-Author, Law & Business, 1981
- "Pre-Trial and Discovery in a Software Marketing Dispute", Law and Business, 1982
- "Pre-Trial and Discovery in a Software Marketing Dispute", Law and Business, 1982
- "Copyright Law and Computer Software Disputes", Practising Law Institute, 1983
- "Microcomputer Software Marketing Agreement Disputes", Practising Law Institute, 1985
- "Copyright in the Look and Feel of Computer Software", The Computer Lawyer, February, 1985
- "The Impact of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act on California Trade Secret Law", Co-Author, Trade Secret Law Reporter, May, 1985
- "Software Copyright Protection", 5 Software Publisher's Association News 3-4, No. 1, January, 1988
- "Developments in Copyright Protection of Computer Software", 2 International Computer Law Adviser 9-12, No. 4, January, 1988
- "Recent Developments in the Copyright Protection of the Look and Feel of Computer Software: Apple Computer v. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard", 6 Software Protection 1-15, No. 10, March, 1988
- "Copyright Protection of Virtual Reality", ABA Science and Technology, 1992
- "New Frontiers: Copyright Protection in Virtual Reality Works", 15 The National Law Journal S1, No. 6, October 12, 1992
- "Software 'Look and Feel' Protection in the 1990's", Co-Author, 15 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, 571-603, 1993
- "Virtual Reality - A Legal Overview" with Michael Risch, Chapter 19 in Computer Software Treatise; L. J Kutten, Ed., 1994
- "Law of the Internet in California" with John Kelley and Michael Risch, National Business Institute, 2001
- "What Really Happens in a Patent Appeal", San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, April 19, 2006
- "Intellectual Property and Creative Freedoms", Stanford University, January 30, 2007
Educational Background:
- City University of New York, New York, New York, B.A./M.A. Urban Management Computer/Information Science
- Columbia University and University of California at Berkeley, M.B.A., 2003
profile
