Resume
Roger Wilcox Cloud
121 Croydon Way, Woodside, California 94062
(650) 368-0899; Fax: (650) 369-6408
PROFILE
Experienced intellectual property attorney, able to provide expert legal and business counsel resulting in reduced risk, continued growth and profitability. High-level skills in the following areas:
- Software Licensing
- Linux, other Open Source
- Copyright, Trademark
- Contracts, Business, Computer Law
- Litigation
- Risk Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Presently on corporate contract assignment
Law Offices of Roger Wilcox Cloud, Scotts Valley, CA 2004 - 2006
Sole Practitioner (and on retainer)
Represented companies as large as Mercury Interactive and as strategic as MontaVista Software in open source and other software licensing, as well as smaller businesses such as American Home Discount Medical Supply in Internet infringement action and Tiger Martial Arts in unfair competition and business contracts.
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA 1999 – 2003
Director, Legal Services
Responsible for all aspects of in-house counsel and representation of world’s leading high-performance computing and visualization concern. Oversaw corporate software licensing in/out (including remarketing, end user, Linux and open source licensing), technology development and acquisition, multimedia and industry consortium agreements, and various copyright issues. Autonomously handled complex and various strategic Fortune 1000 inter-company negotiations.
- Exceptional performance as Senior Counsel led to elevation to Director position in 2002.
- As member of SGI Open Source Review Board, responsible for strategic business and legal determinations regarding release of SGI software into open source.
- Recognized by employer for saving over $12 million dollars in one extended negotiation; saved well over $20 million in other negotiations.
- Innovated many practices and procedures; revolutionized legal documentation, including comprehensive and coherent revision of shrinkwrap, end user, download licenses and remarketing agreements, as well as website terms of use and purchase order and invoice agreements, for consistency in look and feel, substantive content and legally protective methodology, including turnkey product-specific adaptive shrinkwrap.
Law Offices of Roger Wilcox Cloud, Scotts Valley, CA 1997 – 1999
Sole Practitioner (and on retainer)
Represented multinational corporations in high technology partnering, licensing and acquisition, intellectual property, multimedia, entertainment, real estate, tort and general business transactions, negotiations and litigation matters.
- Major clients included E-mu Systems (on retainer), Trimble Navigation, Vantive Corporation, Open Text Corporation, RedZone Records and Summit Audio.
- Skillful negotiator; e.g., for E-mu: settled volatile and highly politically charged matters very inexpensively while sidestepping potentially catastrophically negative industry PR; consistently applied effective, experienced and comprehensive problem-solving tactics to clients’ considerable economic benefit.
Verity Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 1996 – 1997
Senior Counsel
- Responsible for intellectual property matters and licensing transactions worldwide.
- Developed unique shrinkwrap adapted to barcode and order-processing system.
Informix Software, Inc., Menlo Park, CA 1991 – 1996
Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
- Sole in-house responsibility for all copyright, trademark, trade secret, open source, patent portfolio, piracy and other intellectual property and export and encryption related matters.
- Outstanding performance led to first promotion after only six months’ tenure (from Licensing Attorney to Senior Counsel, Licensing); and, continued superior performance resulted in promotion to company’s first intellectual property attorney after three years’ tenure.
- Developed company’s first patent program, a profound success; coalesced unorganized worldwide trademark records into comprehensive and cohesive portfolio; instituted industry’s first online license (pre-World Wide Web); represented company to Software Industry Coalition.
- Negotiated and drafted nearly 1,000 technology licensing, cross-licensing, acquisition, confidentiality and other agreements.
IntelliCorp, Inc., Mountain View, CA 1989 – 1991
Licensing Attorney
- Negotiated, analyzed and drafted hundreds of software licensing, distribution, development, OEM, VAR, technology acquisition and related agreements during complex product transitions.
- Responsible for all aspects of negotiation in multimillion dollar deals with major international corporations, including Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, French and American companies.
ADMISSIONS
California State Bar (Bar no. 139600), 1989
EDUCATION
Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA
Juris Doctor
- Associate Editor, Santa Clara Law Review
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Bachelor of Science, Broadcasting
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Invited Contributor, Creative Commons, Stanford University, Summer 2002.
(Distinguished nonprofit organization offering alternative copyright licensing and public domain contribution, instituted under auspices of pre-eminent copyright scholar Prof. Lawrence Lessig.) - Invited Panelist, IEEE Bioinformatics Conference, Stanford University, Summer 2002.
- 40% authorship, Software Industry Coalition Amicus Brief, Lotus v. Borland, US Supreme Court, 1996.
- Full Voting Member of NARAS (Grammys) 1996 to present.
- (Partly as a result of producing world’s first full-length enhanced CD album, 1995.)
- Columnist, Uniforum Magazine, 1995 – 1996.
- Chairperson, Intellectual Property Committee, Software Industry Coalition, 1995 – 1996.
- Member, Board of Directors, Software Industry Coalition, 1995.
- Assistant Editor, Ocean Sports Magazine, 1989 – 1991.
