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IP People on the Move
Mitchell Edwards was hired in February to be both the first general
counsel and the first chief financial officer of Bit Torrent, Inc., the
San Francisco–based technology company best known for its peer-to-peer file sharing software. But he’s been so busy that he only
allowed the company to announce his arrival in August. In a company with 50 employees, “there’s a remarkable efficiency in having
one person take the two roles,” Edwards says.
After earning a master’s in international business and law at Oxford University and
attending Stanford University Law School, Edwards became a partner at Brobeck, Phleger
& Harrison. In 1997 he jumped to a small private equity firm, and spent the past four years
at an Internet search company. As soon as he joined Bit Torrent, Edwards was immersed in
a dispute with Comcast Corp. which was limiting the Internet traffic of Bit Torrent clients.
Once viewed as a pariah that facilitated piracy—but now a partner of large Hollywood
companies—Bit Torrent complained that its users were being unfairly targeted. In March
both companies agreed that Comcast has the right to manage network traffic, but, moving forward, it will do so without singling out one technology. —David Hechler
WHO
Patent litigator Jerry Canada from Kenyon &
Kenyon
MOVED TO
Crowell & Moring in New York
Patent attorney and immunologist McDermott Will & Emery in Boston
Robert Underwood from Hamilton, Brook, Smith
& Reynolds
Trademark litigators Robert Alpert and
Joseph Villapol from Ladas & Parry
Bryan Cave in New York
Patent attorneys Alan Anderson, John Klos,
Matthew Palen, Sharna Wahlgren and
Christopher Young from Fulbright & Jaworski
Patent attorney Stephen DeKlerk from Blakely
Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman
Briggs and Morgan in Minneapolis
Sonnenschein in Silicon Valley
Patent litigator Kurt Rogers from Latham &
Watkins
Bingham McCutchen in New York
Entertainment lawyer James Nguyen from Foley
& Lardner
Wildman Harrold in Los Angeles
IP litigators Chris Gilbert, David Henry and
Gregory Perrone from Hughes & Luce
Patton Boggs in Dallas
Dan McCurdy from president of Lucent
Technologies’ IP business
CEO of Allied Security Trust
Brian Hinman from CEO of Allied Security Trust Vice President of IP at Verizon
IP litigators Arthur Beeman and Pamela Fuller
from DLA Piper
Trademark litigator Michael Graif from
McDermott
Mark Allen Cohen from senior IP attaché at the
U.S. embassy in Beijing
Jones Day in San Francisco
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle
in New York
Jones Day in Beijing
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