William Galkin Counsel
William heads the Information Technology, Intellectual Property & E-Commerce practices at SWA, with a particular focus on providing general IP advice to a range of corporate clients.
William has more than 20 years of experience in advising companies at all stages of development on drafting, structuring and managing relationships in the Internet, e-commerce, IT and computer law areas. His intimate understanding of these spheres help clients to derive maximum benefit from their licensing, development, alliance, distribution and outsourcing arrangements.
William’s vast depth of IP knowledge has seen him serve as adjunct professors of Computer Law at the University of Maryland School of Law as well as adjunct professor of Business Law at the Merrick School of Business at the University of Baltimore. In addition to the corporate clients he represents, he also served as Special Intellectual Property Counsel for the Office of the Maryland Attorney General.
Education
- New York University School of Law, (J.D.) 1985
- New York University (B.A., cum laude, Economics) 1979
Career
- Partner, Meitar, Liquornik, Geva & Leshem, Brandwein, Israel
Bar Admission
- Maryland
Representative Matters
- Representing large number of e-commerce and social networking websites on a variety of matters including website development, terms of use, content licensing, affiliate arrangements, and advertising terms.
- Advising multinational telecommunications software company in multiple large and long term development and outsourcing projects.
- Supporting web-based companies in development of internationally recognized privacy policies.
- Representing technology companies in the licensing, distribution and other commercialization of products.
- Acting for software development companies in use and distribution of products incorporating open source code and applications.
- Representing blog aggregator in content development, alliance and licensing transactions
- Acting for software development companies in use and distribution of products incorporating open source code and applications.
- Representing blog aggregator in content development, alliance and licensing transactions.
- Representing bioinformatics company in licensing out access to bioinformatics database.
- Representing web security solutions companies in developing OEM relationships.