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{% block subtitle %}Outside Counsel, et alia - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Outside{% endblock %}
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<h1>Outside Counsel</h1>
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<h2>Olivier Hugot - Of Counsel, France</h2>
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<p>Olivier Hugot is a member of the New York (2003) and Paris (2004) Bars.
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He advises and represents French and foreign companies in the areas of
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Internet, luxury and creation. He assists many innovative Internet
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entrepreneurs and companies, both in formalizing their projects as well as
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in development during fundraising.</p>
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<p>He advises clients in connection with the protection and exploitation
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of their rights in compliance with the constantly evolving internet
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regulations. Olivier has extensive experience in the practical and legal
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problems of the internet, both with counseling and litigation. He has
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also developed a particular expertise in the legal aspects of free
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culture.</p>
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<p>Olivier has presented his work at a number of conferences, particularly
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pertaining to free licenses (GNU/GPL, Creative Commons) as well at Wikimania
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2008, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. Olivier
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is also a masters instructor at the University of Paris I La Sorbonne and a
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member of the associations INTA and IAEL.</p>
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<h2 id="ravicher">Daniel B. Ravicher - Litigation Counsel</h2>
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<p>Daniel B. Ravicher is a Lecturer in Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
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Law. He has published numerous legal articles and given dozens of
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presentations regarding Free and Open Source Software legal issues and
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served as lead counsel for free and open source software developers in the
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only GPL enforcement lawsuits ever brought in the United States.
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Professor Ravicher has been labeled a modern day ‘Robin Hood’
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by Science magazine, awarded an Echoing Green Fellowship for social
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entrepreneurship, named to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's
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‘50 Most Influential People in IP’ list and IP Law & Business
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magazine's ‘Top 50 Under 45’ list and twice invited to testify
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before Congress on issues of technology legal policy. Professor Ravicher
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received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law,
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where he was the Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer
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Caplin Public Service Award recipient and an Editor of the Virginia
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Journal of Law and Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials
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science magna cum laude with University Honors from the University of
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South Florida. Professor Ravicher writes for The Huffington Post and
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Seeking Alpha and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the
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Courts of Appeals for the Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District
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Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the State of
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New York, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Professor Ravicher is also the Executive Director
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of <a href="http://pubpat.org">the Public Patent Foundation</a>.
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</p>
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<h2>Pamela Chestek - Pro Bono Counsel</h2>
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<p>Pamela S. Chestek is the principal of <a href="http://chesteklegal.com/">
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Chestek Legal</a> in Raleigh, North Carolina. She counsels creative
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communities on open source, brand,
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marketing and copyright matters. Prior to returning to private practice,
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she held in-house positions at footwear, apparel, and high technology
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companies and was an adjunct law professor teaching a course on trademark
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law and unfair competition. She is a frequent author of scholarly articles,
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and her blog, <a href="http://propertyintangible.com/">Property, Intangible</a>,
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provides analysis of current intellectual property case law.</p>
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<p>Pam has extensive experience in the open source community, in particular
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dealing with the challenge of managing brand identity and consumer
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expectation in a culture rooted in free access, collaboration and sharing.
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</p>
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<p>Pam has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Penn State and a Juris Doctor from
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the Western New England University School of Law. She is admitted to
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practice in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York
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and North Carolina.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://www.eip.com/us/">EIP</a> - Pro Bono Counsel, EU Trademark Law</h2>
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<p>EIP is a leading Intellectual Property Law firm advising on all areas of
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intellectual property. Founded in 2000, EIP has 23 partners and more
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than 130 staff practicing from its four UK offices in Bath, Cardiff,
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Leeds and London, its U.S. office in San Diego, California, and its
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German office in Düsseldorf. EIP’s combination of patent, trademark and
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design attorneys with specialist IP litigators is highly unusual in the
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UK legal services market, and presents its clients with significant
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advantages, including the ability to offer advice on all stages of IP
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protection and rights enforcement, including cross-border litigation in
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the UK and Germany, and prosecution in the UK and US. Attorneys and
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litigators combine with in-house IP strategy and patent searching
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capabilities to offer advice on the entire IP life cycle. EIP won the
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Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2013, in the category of Outstanding
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Achievement in recognition of having increased its overseas sales by
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136% over a three year period. EIP is a Legal 500, Chambers & Partners,
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and IAM Patent 1000 recommended firm.</p>
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<h1>Directors Emeriti</h1>
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<p><em>Directors Emeriti of the Software Freedom Conservancy are former
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members of Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of
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Directors</a> who continue to support Conservancy's mission and
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occasionally advise Conservancy.</em></p>
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<h2>Stormy Peters - Director Emeritus</h2>
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<p>Stormy Peter is passionate about open source software and educates
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companies and communities on how open source software is changing the
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software industry. She is a compelling speaker who engages her
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audiences during and after her presentations and frequently speaks on
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business aspects of open source software. Stormy worked for OpenLogic,
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the GNOME Foundation and Mozilla.</p>
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<h2>Peter Brown - Director Emeritus</h2>
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<p>Peter Brown has worked in non-profit management and finance for more
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than twenty years. He served as the Executive Director of the Free
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Software Foundation from 2005 until 2011, and previously as its
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Financial Controller and GPL Compliance Lab Manager. Peter has also
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been a Director of New Internationalist Publications Cooperative, and
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worked in London for BBC Network Radio.</p>
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<h2 id="dachary">Loïc Dachary - Director Emeritus</h2>
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<p>Loïc Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since
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1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in
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France. In 2012, he founded <a href="http://upstream-university.org/">Upstream
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University</a>, a nonprofit with the goal of teaching developers how to
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contribute easily and efficiently. Dachary volunteers as a developer
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for <a href="http://april.org/">April</a>, a grassroots organization
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promoting Free Software. He maintains April's OpenStack cluster and organizes
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contributions with agile methods. As President
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of <a href="http://fsffrance.org/">FSF France</a>, he also provides technical
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and legal resources to French Free Software developers. His day job is to use
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and contribute to <a href="http://ceph.com/">Ceph</a> within OpenStack.</p>
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<h2>Ian Lance Taylor - Director Emeritus</h2>
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<p>Ian Lance Taylor began working with free software in 1990. He wrote
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the popular free Taylor UUCP package and has contributed to a wide range
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of free software projects, particularly the GNU compiler and binary
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utilities. He worked with free software at Cygnus Solutions, Zembu Labs,
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Wasabi Systems, and C2 Microsystems, and currently does GNU compiler and
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tools development at Google. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from
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Yale University.</p>
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<h2>Tom Tromey - Director Emeritus</h2>
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<p>Tom Tromey started working on free software in 1991. He was the
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primary author of GNU Automake, and has also worked on a wide range of
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other free software projects. He is currently a maintainer of GNU gcj and
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works at Red Hat. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the California
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Institute of Technology.</p>
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