Jack Russo - Palo Alto, CA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, Los Angeles, California

• Non Legal Education

  • MBA, Columbia University and University of California Berkeley
  • LLM, Center for International Legal Studies (Austria, EU)
  • PhD candidate, International School of Business (Paris, EU)

Current Employment Position(s)

• Managing Partner, since 1985

Classes and Seminars

• "Intellectual Property and Creative Freedoms", Stanford University, January 30, 2007
  
• "What Really Happens in a Patent Appeal", San Francisco Bay Area Intellectual Property American Inn of Court, April 19, 2006
  
• "Law of the Internet in California" with John Kelley and Michael Risch, National Business Institute, 2001

Published Works

Articles

• "Virtual Reality - A Legal Overview" with Michael Risch, Chapter 19 in Computer Software Treatise; L. J Kutten, Ed., 1994
  
• "Software 'Look and Feel' Protection in the 1990's", Co-Author, 15 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, 571-603, 1993
  
• "New Frontiers: Copyright Protection in Virtual Reality Works", 15 The National Law Journal S1, No. 6, October 12, 1992
  
• "Copyright Protection of Virtual Reality", ABA Science and Technology, 1992
  
• "Recent Developments in the Copyright Protection of the Look and Feel of Computer Software: Apple Computer v. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard", 6 Software Protection 1-15, No. 10, March, 1988
  
• "Developments in Copyright Protection of Computer Software", 2 International Computer Law Adviser 9-12, No. 4, January, 1988
• "Software Copyright Protection", 5 Software Publisher's Association News 3-4, No. 1, January, 1988
• "The Impact of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act on California Trade Secret Law", Co-Author, Trade Secret Law Reporter, May, 1985
• "Copyright in the Look and Feel of Computer Software", The Computer Lawyer, February, 1985
• "Microcomputer Software Marketing Agreement Disputes", Practising Law Institute, 1985
• "Copyright Law and Computer Software Disputes", Practising Law Institute, 1983
• "Pre-Trial and Discovery in a Software Marketing Dispute", Law and Business, 1982
• "Protection of Computer Software After the Copyright Act of 1980", Co-Author, Law & Business, 1981
• An Entrepreneurial Lawyer’s Guide to Creating A Successful Startup in Silicon Valley, Authored by Jack Russo on Amazon

Bar Admissions

• California, 1980
• New York, 1981
• Hawaii, 1990
• Washington, 1999
• U.S. Supreme Court
• Oregon, 1999
• Florida, 2021

Other Affiliations

• State Bar of California
• New York State Bar Association
• District of Columbia Bar
• American Bar Association, Science and Technology, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Sections (Member)
• Santa Clara Superior Court (Judge Pro Tempore)
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Arbitrator)