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 WiMedia Alliance: The WiMedia Alliance is an open, non-profit industry association dedicated to collaboratively developing and administering specifications from the physical layer up; enabling connectivity and interoperability for multiple industry-based protocols sharing the MBOA-UWB spectrum.

• 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.

• The Mobile DTV Alliance: The Mobile DTV Alliance is an open industry consortium that focuses on promoting the best practices and open standards to deliver premium-quality broadcast television to mobile devices. The alliance includes 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.

• IMS Forum: IMS Forum is a leading international industry association dedicated to accelerating the deployment of VoIP, video over IP, and packet technologies and services over converged wireless, wireline, and cable broadband networks. The association is comprised of service providers, solutions providers, systems integrators and government agencies translating industry standards into revenue generating services. The IMS Forum continues the groundbreaking work of the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC), which was founded in 1998.