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Intellectual Property

Apr. 19, 2012

Ian C. Ballon

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Greenberg Traurig LLP Silicon Valley and Los Angeles



New-media guru Ballon got in on the ground floor of an emerging area of law when he moved to Silicon Valley in the late 1980s. He started out doing software and trade secrets litigation and then "the Internet exploded."


Ballon said a talk he gave in 1995 on Internet law, a brand-new field at the time, led quickly to a book deal to write the legal industry's first treatise on the subject.


But it took him a while to finish. "...

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