Christopher K. Ridder
416 Portofino Dr. #205 • San Carlos, CA 94070 • chris at cridder.com • (650) 646-3264-
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Juris
Doctor, May 2001
Honors and
Activities: Certificate in Law and Technology • Berkeley
Technology Law Journal: Submissions Editor, Info. Management Editor •
boalt.org: Co-founder • Computer Policy Committee • Samuelson Law, Technology
& Public Policy Clinic
B.A.,
Sociology, Minor, Journalism, June 1993
Honors and
Activities: Highest
Honors in the major • Cowell College Honors • College Service Citation • Fish
Rap Live! newspaper: Co-founder, Features Editor • Campus Governance
newspaper: Founder, Editor • Cowell Senate: Chair • Campus Regulations Task
Force
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Stanford Law School,
Stanford, CA Residential
Fellow
June 2007 – July 2009 Non-Residential
Fellow July 2009 – Present |
Advise
clients (including filmmakers and public advocacy organizations) regarding
copyright, trademark, right of publicity, First Amendment and media law issues. Litigate
copyright and First Amendment cases, including Fairey v. Associated Press, Rowling v. RDR Books, Yoko Ono Lennon et
al. v. Premise Media, Golan v. Holder.
Assisted in teaching “Legal Rules for the Metaverse,” a law school
course concerned with applying legal principles to solving problems in virtual
worlds. Write articles and speak about
emerging issues in open source licensing, privacy, computer security and
Internet filtering. Co-authored amicus
brief in Jacobsen v. Katzer, a
Federal Circuit case regarding the enforceability of open source and free
software licenses.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP,Palo
Alto, CA Associate October 2004 – May 2007 |
Litigated
complex business disputes including patent litigation (digital microwave radio
technology, semiconductors), technology-intensive contract cases, and disputes
regarding corporate governance. Participated
in drafting and negotiating settlement agreements including patent licenses and
joint development agreements. Conducted intellectual property and litigation due
diligence in mergers and acquisitions, including Apax Partners’s $7.75 billion
acquisition of Thomson Learning, Veritas Software’s $13 billion business combination
with Symantec Corp., Hellman & Friedman’s acquisition of Sheridan
Healthcare. Managed complex
electronic discovery.
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Fish & Richardson, P.C., Redwood City, CA Associate October 2002 – September 2004 Summer
Associate Summer 2000 |
Litigated
complex patent, trademark and copyright
matters, including significant software patent cases. Created a retrocomputing laboratory for
searching and evaluating prior art software.
Worked closely with expert witnesses. Prepared pleadings and briefs,
including infringement/invalidity contentions, expert reports and summary
judgment motions. Co-managed firmwide
email list regarding open source legal issues.
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Judge Mariana
R. Pfaelzer, United States District Court, Los Angeles,
CA Law
Clerk August
2001 – August 2002
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Drafted orders in a diverse range of cases, including
claim construction and summary judgment orders in patent cases relating to
computer technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Assisted with two large trials. Participated in settlement conferences.
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Professor Mark Lemley, Berkeley, CA Research
Assistant January 2000 – October 2000 |
Designed and maintained two Internet web sites serving
as casebook supplements for Intellectual Property in the New Technological
Age, and Software and Internet Law.
Edited portions of Software and Internet Law.
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Judge D. Lowell Jensen, United States District Court, Oakland, CA Extern May
1999 – August 1999
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Wrote bench memoranda and drafted orders in patent,
trade dress, criminal, class action and civil rights cases.
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GLUE
Publishing, LLC, Los Angeles, CA Co-Founder,
Editor June
1997 – June 1998
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Worked with Board of Directors on all aspects of
planning, funding and launching a new weekly publication, GLUE L.A. Edited news and features. Coordinated Internet presence.
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Anchorage Press, Anchorage, AK Editor-in-Chief February
1995 – September 1996 |
Managed editorial staff of the largest weekly newspaper
in Anchorage through a period of strong growth.
Planned all content for the paper in addition to writing articles. AK Press Club Award: Investigative Reporting.
Conditions
Precedent in Copyright Law (in progress).
Evidentiary Implications of Potential Security
Weaknesses in Forensic Software, International Journal of Digital
Crime and Forensics 1(3), 78-79, July-September 2009.
AT&T Corp. v. City of Portland, 15 Berkeley Tech.
L.J. 397 (2000) (student comment).
Privacy and Location Data: Telecommunications
Regulation and the Fair Information Practices Framework, Where 2.0 Conference (San Francisco, CA; June, 2005).
Evidentiary Implications of Potential Security
Weaknesses in Forensic Software, Black Hat USA
2007 Briefings and Training (Las Vegas, NV; August, 2007); DEFCON 15 (Las
Vegas, NV; August, 2007).
Copyright and Contract Issues Presented in Jacobsen v. Katzer, Open Source in Mobile Legal
Workshop (San Francisco, CA; March, 2008).
Internet
Content Regulation: The Role of Parliaments, Shaping the Information
Society: The Role of Parliaments and Legislators, Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
(Geneva, Switzerland; May, 2008).
The
Role of Copyright Policy in Interpretation and Enforcement of Information
Contracts and Technical Protection Measures, IP
Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School (Stanford, CA; August, 2008).
Creative IP Licensing Strategies, Continuing Legal Education presentation to the Alaska
Bar Association Intellectual Property Section (Anchorage, Alaska (telephonic); September,
2008).
Conditions Precedent in Copyright Law, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium,
Tulane University Law School (New Orleans, LA; October, 2008).
Copyright and its Limitations: Engines of Free
Expression, Third World Congress of Public Law (Recife, Brazil; May,
2009).
All California State Courts (January 28, 2002).
United States District Court for the Central District of California (January 28, 2002).
United States District Court for the Northern District of California (March 19, 2003).
United Stated Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (December 17, 2007).