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.
Utility is a low legal standard. It only really has to be nominally useful but it's the critical standard for starting a business and what you heard about earlier today was sort of the two first things that a venture capitalists is going to look for. First thing, they're going to ask me when I ship...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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