Stewart, G. Michael

Derek Stettner is a partner focusing his practice on intellectual property and information technology matters and has over 15 years of experience in patent prosecution and technology transfer and licensing.

He secures patent, copyright, and other intellectual property protection for electrical, computer, software, business method, and mechanical inventions. Mr. Stettner regularly provides or assists with invention harvesting, patent portfolio management and strategy, IP due diligence, product clearance, and litigation support. His practice also involves competitive landscaping and patentability and infringement analysis. Mr. Stettner has prepared, analyzed, and negotiated hundreds of software and other intellectual property licenses. He has specific experience with conventional software licensing; software support and maintenance agreements; ERP, database, and other IT systems; shrinkwrap and clickwrap contracts; ASP and hosting services; SaaS and web services; cloud computing; open source licensing; source code and technology escrows; content development and management; and professional development and service agreements, including SOWs. He has additional experience in IT security and privacy matters.