Santa Venetia Intellectual Property Lawyers

Experienced litigator and problem solver. Ethan has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of business and intellectual property disputes. He has served clients of every size across diverse industries including technology, entertainment, software, artificial intelligence, video games, real estate, solar energy, private equity, and manufacturing. An honors graduate of Columbia Law School, Ethan clerked for U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in the Southern District of New York before working for many years at the New York offices of Covington & Burling. He serves as the National Chapter Co-Coordinator of the Copyright Society.

Peter represents businesses, entrepreneurs, and executives in a wide variety of business-related matters, including, but not limited to, insurance coverage disputes, breach of contract, intellectual property disputes (trademark and copyright infringement), breach of fiduciary duty, and fraudulent transfer. In insurance recovery cases, Peter exclusively represents corporate and individual policyholders under all forms of insurance policies. Since 2017, Peter has represented dozens of property owners and businesses with respect to insurance claims arising from tragic losses in California wildfires.

Kenneth Berland is a seasoned engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building and managing high-impact software and infrastructure teams. Currently serving as VP of Infrastructure at Modelcode.ai, he leads innovation in automating the modernization of legacy codebases using large language models (LLMs) and workflow orchestration. As the first production software engineer at the company, he architected core frameworks for application deployment, monitoring, and scaling, laying the foundation for future growth. Prior to that, Kenneth spent nearly seven years at Amazon Music, where he was Senior Manager of Software Development (L7) and led the Playback team responsible for delivering flawless...

Franchise attorney and court-accepted franchise expert with 35-years of experience in the franchise industry. Represents franchisors as well as franchisees in franchise litigation matters as well as Franchise Disclosure Document preparation and due diligence review. Also a franchise attorney who has started, owned and operated a very successful franchise. So I don't just "talk the talk" but have actually walked the walk. Author of over 30 publications including three books on franchising.

Alex Feerst is a prominent technology lawyer and a leading researcher on technology ethics in areas including artificial intelligence and neurotechnology, and Chief Legal Officer of Science Corporation.

Danelle Harvey-Jacob is the Founder and Principal Attorney at Harvey-Jacob Law, a California law firm helping solopreneurs, business start-ups, and creators correctly and proactively set-up to avoid common costly legal mistakes, disputes, and pitfalls. Danelle’s practice areas are business, contract, trademark, copyright, Internet, music, and trusts and estates law. Danelle empowers others to confidently build businesses while protecting their brands, assets, and loved ones. She holds an MSc in Legal Studies, and an LL.M. with business law from the USC Gould School of Law. Before focusing on U.S. legal studies and practice, Danelle studied England and Wales, and European Union...

Human / Civil Rights Attorney working with clients in the public and private spheres for over 25 years in over 75 countries. Significant experience serving non-profits in the public health and international development spheres assisting refugees, asylum seekers, and those suffering from various forms of trauma. Particular focus on LGBTQ and non-binary clients with legal / personal concerns related to gender expression and its effects and helping spearhead international initiatives addressing the same.

Current Director of the Gamelan Council - Asia-Pacific Public Health, Microfinance, and Development Center. Previous experience includes working as a primary care clinician / rural health officer for...

Gerald R. Prettyman has been preparing and filing patents since 2001, and since 2006 has filed trademarks, copyrights and business filings, and worked to prevent and solve legal problems for his clients. Mr. Prettyman has prepared and filed over 200 patent applications for his clients and over 70 trademarks. Mr. Prettyman was previously an engineer and business manager, making him uniquely qualified to work with and protect the intellectual property of tech companies and to advise start-ups on how to make money without spending money. Mr. Prettyman is a U.S. Navy veteran.

Andrew is a senior counsel in the Oakland/East Bay office of Ericksen Arbuthnot and co-chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. He is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star by Thomson Reuters. Andrew has extensive litigation experience representing individual and institutional clients in state and federal court. His areas of practice include insurance coverage and defense, intellectual property, personal injury, professional liability, real estate, and other commercial issues.

Andrew has B.A. degrees in Cognitive Science and History, and a minor in Philosophy, from the...