Welcome to our server, a preview of the firm's practice emphasis, its attorneys, and insightful articles that examine intellectual property issues in digital technologies. Our attorneys offer innovative legal advice on new media technologies.

About the Firm

Fenwick & West is a "Silicon Valley" law firm providing comprehensive services to high technology clients of national and international prominence. The firm has over 100 attorneys and a network of correspondent firms in many major cities of the world. Fenwick & West has offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California, and Washington, D.C.

The firm's practice emphasizes technology-related issues in a global business context, focusing on five major practice areas:

Corporate Law, including venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property protection, including technology licensing, international transactions, domestic and international tax planning, litigation and alternative dispute resolution techniques.

Fenwick & West is a leading "Silicon Valley" law firm which has represented hundreds of growth-oriented companies from inception. Many of these have become major public companies. It also represents institutional investors and venture capital firms, and has been a leader in structuring new financing vehicles for start-up companies.

Currently featured articles on this server are:

Intellectual Property Rights, Digital Publishing, and Multimedia Copyright

Dennis Fernandez'paper on Understanding Intellectual Property Rights

Multimedia and the Superhighway: Rapid Acceleration or Foot on the Brake?

Multimedia - Top Ten Legal Issues

Legal Environment for Broadband Interactive Services

Software Distribution, Exporting, and Licensing

Update on Current Status of U.S. Export Administration Regulations on Software Exports

Software Licensing Complements the Digital Age

Strategies and Guides for Entrepreneurs and Investors