David Rickerby is a Partner at the law firm of Choate Hall and Stewart in Boston, MA. He heads the Technology Licensing practice area at Choate and has particular areas of focus in intellectual property counseling, emerging companies, university licensing, distribution channel strategy and open source law.
Rickerby has worked in the technology licensing area for more than a decade. Prior to joining the firm, Rickerby was an associate in the Patent and Intellectual Property Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, an associate in the Corporate and Venture Capital and Emerging Companies Group at Edwards & Angell, a Contracts Manager in the Technology Management Group at Computer Sciences Corporation, and the Legal Manager for PSI International, Inc.
David Rickerby received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his law degree from the University of Connecticut.
So the two are mutually exclusive and one of the first decisions you'll make is whether or not your intellectual property should be a trade secret or a patent. Now in a university setting, there's obviously a strong impetus to publish, publish, publish, publish. So trade secrets are not something ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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