William Sloan Coats

Intellectual Property, Mediation
1000 Marsh Road
Menlo Park, California 94025


Intellectual Property

Admitted

1980, California

Law School

Hastings College of the Law, University of California, J.D., 1980

Law School Graduation Year

1980

College

University of San Francisco, B.A., 1972

Memberships

State Bar of California (Co-Chair, Education Committee, 1994 and Copyright Committee, 1995, Intellectual Property Law Section); American Bar Association.

Biographical

Thurston Society. Member, Moot Court Board. Co-Author: with Vickie L. Feeman, Digital Copyright Act Seen As Win for Industry, Entertainment Law and Finance, Vol. XIV, No. 8, Nov. 1998; with Heather Rafter, The Games People Play: Sega v. Accolade and the Right to Reverse Engineer Software, Comm/Ent, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1993 and Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 21, No. 9, Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 21, No. 9, 1993 (in Japanese); with David Cramer, A Reversal of Fortune, Tolley's Computer Law and Practice, Vol. 10, No. 5, 1994, also published in Computer Law Reporter, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1994; with Heather Rafter, Accolade and Atari: Reverse Engineering and the Right to Make Compatible Programs, The Computer Lawyer, Vol. 9, No. 10, 1992; with David Kramer, Not As Clean As They Wanna Be: Intermediate Copying in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, Comm/Ent, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1994; with Heather Rafter, From Stoning to Spamming: Regulation of Advertising on the Internet, First Annual Internet Law Institute Practicing Law Institute, 1997; with Heather Rafter, From Sampling of Artistic Works To Music Distribution On the Internet: The Effect Of New Digital Technology on Copyright Law, 471 Practicing Law Institute 137, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Literary Property Course Handbook Series, G4-3987, March 1997; Computer Law: The Evolving Law of the Internet Commerce, Free Speech, Security, Obscenity and Entertainment, 17th Annual Institute.

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