Ron N. Dreben
Ron N. Dreben advises clients on intellectual property (IP) and technology issues in business transactions. He provides advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and licensing arrangements as well as trademark, copyright, trade secret, and related IP law. A certified information privacy professional (CIPP), Ron helps companies assess privacy and information security issues. He regularly writes and presents on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright, including authorship and protection of AI developments, fair use and machine learning, challenges presented by deepfakes, as well as IP diligence and nonfungible tokens (NFTs). He recently spoke on AI and copyright to the California Lawyers Association and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
Ron counsels clients on all aspects of IP issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions of businesses or substantial IP assets, advising on everything from worldwide IP diligence to definitive agreements.
Ron drafts, reviews, and negotiates all types of IP, technology, and software agreements, including AI use policies and guidelines, ecommerce agreements, terms and conditions, and privacy policies; IP development agreements; trademark co-existence agreements and licenses; consulting and independent contractor agreements; and data use agreements. He has handled technology and software agreement matters for major Wall Street banks working individually and as part of consortia.
Ron works on trademark and index licenses for sophisticated financial products such as exchange-traded funds and co-branded investment products. In this regard, he coordinates with our London office on UK and EU Benchmark Rules.
Ron also advises companies on data aggregation and website data collection issues (often referred to as web scraping).
