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{% extends "base_about.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Outside Counsel & Contractors - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}Outside{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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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>Daniel B. Ravicher - Litigation Counsel</h2>
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<p>Daniel B. Ravicher is the <a href="http://pubpat.org">PUBPAT</a>'s
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Executive Director and a Lecturer in Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
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Law. Labeled a modern day 'Robin Hood' by Science magazine, and awarded
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an Echoing Green Fellowship for social entrepreneurship, Professor
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Ravicher is a registered patent attorney who writes and speaks frequently
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on patent law and policy, including twice testifying as an invited witness
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before Congress on the topic of patent reform. As a result of his
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accomplishments and professional reputation, Professor Ravicher was named
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to both Managing Intellectual Property magazine's ’50 Most
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Influential People in IP‘ list and IP Law & Business magazine's
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‘Top 50 Under 45’ list. Professor Ravicher received his law
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degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the
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Franklin O'Blechman Scholar of his class, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service
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Award recipient and an Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and
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Technology, and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude
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with University Honors from the University of South Florida. Professor
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Ravicher writes about patent policy issues for The Huffington Post and
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patent related corporate valuation issues for Seeking Alpha. He is
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admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the Courts of Appeals for the
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Federal, 2nd and 11th Circuits, the District Courts for the Southern and
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Eastern Districts of New York, the State of New York, and the United
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States Patent and Trademark Office.</p>
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<h2>Karen Sandler - Pro Bono Counsel</h2>
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<a id="karen"></a>
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<p>Karen M. Sandler is currently the Executive Director of the GNOME
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Foundation and prior to taking up this position was General Counsel of
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the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Karen continues to do pro bono
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legal work with Conservancy, SFLC, and Question Copyright and serves
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as <a href="/about/officers#karen">an officer of both the Conservancy</a>
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and SFLC. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the
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corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and
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Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree
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from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and
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co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen
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received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She
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is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of
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the <a href="http://faif.us">“Free as in Freedom”
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podcast</a>.</p>
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<h1>Contractors</h1>
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<h2>Paul Visscher - Compliance Engineering & System Administration Contractor</h2>
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<p>Paul Visscher was first exposed to the Free Software Movement in late
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1997. Paul has been a professional system administrator for most of his
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adult life, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux based systems. He began
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contracting with the Software Freedom Law Center on Compliance Engineering
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in December 2009 and continued his Compliance Engineering work with the
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Conservancy beginning in October 2010. He is actively involved in his
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local GNU/Linux user group, as well various local programming groups. He
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is a former Chief Webmaster and a former volunteer system administrator
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for the GNU project.</p>
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{% endblock %}
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