Gerry Elman

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About Gerry Elman

With 54 years of varied experience as a practicing attorney, he is also a widely published author on technology and the law. He was one of the first attorneys to work with computers and online information technology and has long been an evangelist for cybersecurity. He is listed in the SuperLawyers Pennsylvania directory for IP law, and in The Best Lawyers in America© for Technology Law and he has achieved the highest rating, AV Preeminent, in the peer-reviewed Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and 10.0/10 Superb on Avvo.com. As a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, he conducted litigation on behalf of the Commonwealth, primarily involving antitrust or utility regulation. Later, as trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, he participated in civil and criminal investigations and complex litigation, including a trial of 5 pharmaceutical companies accused of fraud on the U.S. Patent Office. He returned to private practice in 1982. At the beginning of that year, Gerry founded the legal journal Biotechnology Law Report along with publisher Mary Ann Liebert and continues to serve as its Founding Editor. Since the early days of 1982, Gerry has been an avid advocate of computer-mediated communication. Via computer, he has taught intellectual property management on the University of Phoenix online campus. From 1994 to he served as the sysop for intellectual property/legal matters in the Ideas, Inventions & Innovations Forum, on CompuServe. Expertise: patents, trademarks, copyrights, intellectual property, antitrust, Internet law, cyberlaw, biotechnology law, computer law, dispute resolution, expert witness, intellectual property, cyber-security,HIPAA compliance, cyber war, mediation, intellectual property arbitration, trade secrets