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Mr. Howard is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation (including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, patents, computer law and the protection of technology), contracts and business torts, securities litigation, and other business litigation.
Mr. Howard also has substantial experience related to technology transactions. Mr. Howard has drafted and negotiated licensing, development, strategic alliance, joint venture and other Internet and technology-related agreements. He has helped businesses and individuals secure trademarks and copyrights. In the course of his practice, Mr. Howard has provided strategic counseling to clients with respect to doing business on the Internet and protecting their intellectual property rights.
Before joining the Firm, Mr. Howard was an intellectual property litigation associate at Sidley & Austin (now Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood) in Chicago from 1996 to 2000. Mr. Howard was a technology transactions associate at Cooley Godward LLP in San Francisco from 2000 to 2002.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Howard is admitted to practice in all state courts in California and Illinois, and in the Northern District of Illinois and California. He is a member of the American Bar Association.
EDUCATION
Mr. Howard received his B.S. degree in Political Science from Northwestern University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School. While at the University of Chicago, Mr. Howard served on the University of Chicago Legal Forum and is the author of Debating PBS: Public Broadcasting and the Power to Exclude Political Candidates rom Televised Debates. | 