Advising technology associations on legal matters is a highly specialized type of legal representation. Our attorneys have deep and sophisticated experience providing these legal services to technology associations through their entire life cycle. We have helped form associations, including drafting Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Intellectual Property Rights Polices and various types of member agreements, and provided guidance on trademark usage and compliance policies. We frequently have been retained to provide legal guidance when technology associations agree to combine, share technology or work toward common goals.

Representative Technology Associations

• The ZigBee Alliance: The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The goal of the ZigBee Alliance is to provide the consumer with ultimate flexibility, mobility and ease of use by building wireless intelligence and capabilities into every-day devices.
• DTV Alliance was an open industry consortium that focused on promoting the best practices and open standards to deliver premium-quality broadcast television to mobile devices. The alliance included leading companies from across the mobile business system and entertainment value chain.
• College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) and CHIME Foundation (Foundation). The leading organization for Chief Information Officers in the health care industry with 1,000 members, CHIME serves the professional development needs of healthcare CIOs and advocates the effective use of information management within healthcare. General representation has included restructuring the membership of the Foundation, organizational review and revision of corporate bylaws and formation of a strategic alliance with another influential health care organization.