Bob Brewer is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology and Corporate and Securities Practice Areas. Bob concentrates his practice in IP and technology transactions, with particular emphasis on IP issues in corporate transactions, information technology, healthcare IT, complex licensing and outsourcing arrangements, and other transactions involving the development, commercialization and transfer of technology and intellectual property rights. Bob also counsels clients on vendor relationships; inbound and outbound licenses; system implementations; research programs; maintenance, hosting and implementation of hardware, software and hospital information systems; and Internet-based business initiatives.
As a part of the trademark practice, Bob assists clients with U.S. and international trademark and branding issues, including the selection, clearance, prosecution, and management of trademark portfolios, providing opinions as to the availability and registrability of marks, preparing and prosecuting trademark applications, conducting opposition proceedings, and maintaining and enforcing trademark rights. Bob also routinely counsels clients on advertising issues, sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions, and resolution/arbitration of domain name disputes.
Bob is listed as one of The Best Lawyers in America® for information technology law, Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar”, a Mid-South Super Lawyers “Rising Star” and was selected by Tennessee Business Magazine as one of its “Best 150 Lawyers in Tennessee” for intellectual property and technology law. Bob is a past chair of the Software Licensing Section of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions Committee. Bob is also a member of the Computer Law Association, the International Trademark Association, the Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Tennessee Bar Association, and is a frequent speaker at Vanderbilt University. Bob attended Indiana University-Bloomington, Stetson University Law School (where he served as a clerk to Chief Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and worked in application programming/database design) and finished at Vanderbilt University School of Law (where he was a research assistant in the area of computer law).
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