Jeffrey D. Osterman is a partner in the Technology and IP Transactions practice and concentrates on matters with deep commercial or technical complexity. He has had extensive experience with pure patent licensing, technology transfer, outsourcing, technology integration, content licensing and merchandising.
Mr. Osterman recently advised Lehman Brothers on a wide range of technology and intellectual property matters in connection with the largest bankruptcy filing in US history, Yeda Research & Development in a major series of patent licenses with Merck KGaA, Amgen and ImClone, NBC Universal in connection with its acquisition of the Weather Channel, Pfizer in connection with a veterinary acquisition from Schering Plough, Vivendi on the IP aspects of the merger between Vivendi Universal Entertainment (Universal Studios) and NBC, Panasonic in connection with a wide variety of transactional matters involving consumer electronics and GE in connection with the IP aspects of numerous corporate transactions. He also counsels clients with respect to their rights under existing agreements and the development of new technologies.
Mr. Osterman lived in Japan from May 1997 to May 1998 where he worked in-house on loan to the headquarters of Panasonic Corporation.
Mr. Osterman is a member of the State Bar of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He has appeared on national television and lectured on intellectual property, electronic privacy and e-commerce throughout the United States and on US intellectual property and contract law in Japan. He is also the Chair of the Information Technology Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is active in the open source legal community.
Mr. Osterman has received a number of awards for his expertise including being ranked by Chambers USA and Chambers Global as a national and global leader in the fields of technology and outsourcing and by Legal 500 as a leading lawyer in the field of intellectual property.