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Michael Ridgway Jones
Associate

Michael Ridgway Jones maintains a diverse practice with a particular emphasis on representing media, telecommunications, technology and financial services companies in intellectual property and technology licensing, collaboration, joint venture, development, and implementation transactions. He has particular experience in the areas of internet and mobile advertising, new and emerging media (including social media), pharmaceutical licensing and collaborations, and software and technology licensing and outsourcing. Mr. Jones drafts, negotiates and analyzes IP, technology and software agreements of all types, and regularly advises clients in those areas in connection with privacy implications, regulatory compliance and a wide variety of legal and business issues.

In addition, Mr. Jones assists for-profit and non-profit clients in trademark and copyright compliance, prosecution, advice and policing, as well as in advertising compliance. He also supervises due diligence for patent, trademark and copyright assets in securitizations, mergers, asset purchases and other corporate transactions in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, information technology, financial services and entertainment.

Prior Work Experience

Prior to joining Loeb & Loeb LLP, Mr. Jones was an intellectual property associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Publications/Speeches

Speaker, Why Trademark Owners Need to Be Concerned About Privacy Law (May 15, 2012)
Speaker, Hot Topics in Consumer Privacy, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Consumer Affairs Committee, New York, New York (April 18, 2012)
Author, “Trade Dress Protection of Websites”, Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace (Second Edition), The Bureau of National Affairs/American Intellectual Property Law Association (2011)
Author, "The Enforceability of Online Agreements", Intellectual Property Law in Cyberspace (Second Edition), The Bureau of National Affairs/American Intellectual Property Law Association (2011)
Speaker, Developments in Search Engine Privacy, 26th Annual American Bar Association-Intellectual Property Law Conference, Arlington, Virginia (April 9, 2011)
Speaker, Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Corporate Transactions, Presentation to Visiting Members of the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office Delegation, New York, New York (November 3, 2010)
Author, "U.S. Supreme Court to Consider First-Sale Doctrine", Intellectual Property Today (April 27, 2010)

Blogs

Affiliations

Member, American Bar Association (Intellectual Property and Science and Technology Sections)
Member, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Consumer Affairs Committee
Member, State Bar of Georgia
Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Member, Board of Directors, In the Life Media, Inc.

Emory University School of Law, J.D., 2004, Order of the Coif

Executive Managing Editor, Emory Law Journal

Yale University, Ph.D., 1995

Yale University, M.Phil., 1991

Yale University, M.A., 1989, Sterling Prize Fellow; Mary Cady Tew Prize

Emory University, B.A., 1988, Highest Honors; Phi Beta Kappa; Robert W. Woodruff Scholar

New York, 2007
Georgia, 2004

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Supreme Court of Georgia
Court of Appeals of Georgia
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

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