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Robert
L. Brown
Member,
Louisville
Greenebaum Doll & Mcdonald
PLLC
 Program: Managing your IP in China
As
more U.S. suppliers establish joint ventures,
alliances and their own facilities in China,
they are faced with the question of how to
protect their product data (engineering CAD
data, bills of material) from competitors
and anyone else who desires to copy products
and sell in the open market. While China is making
considerable progress in protecting intellectual
property, there are limits to the protection
available. This program will describe recent
efforts in China to protect foreign technology,
and the remedies available to U.S. companies
wishing to do business in China.
Background
Robert Brown is a member
in the Louisville office of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald,
where he devotes his attention to representing
emerging companies – both
start-ups and established companies going
overseas. Mr. Brown's areas of expertise include
antitrust and unfair competition, corporate
and securities, economic development, encryption,
finance, international, mergers and acquisitions,
product distribution and telecommunications.
His
background blends law and business. During
the three years of law school, he also obtained
a masters degree in community development
and an MBA. After law school, he worked for one
of Japan's leading companies, Mitsui & Co.,
where he helped establish its legal department.
During two years in its Tokyo head office,
he earned a masters degree in business from
a Japanese university.
Next, Mr. Brown was
a partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro,
as it was then known. While working
in the firm's San Francisco office, he
taught at Berkeley Law School. Later, he
established and became the managing partner
of the firm's Tokyo office.
After receiving
a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, he
served as General Counsel to Tiernan Communications,
Inc., a California-based company that
was the international leader in production
and marketing of digital media products
and systems. There he handled legal and
regulatory issues, both domestically
and internationally. During his three years
with the company, he helped it grow from
$100,000 to almost $25 million in annual
sales.
In 2004,
he received another Ph.D., this one from
The London School of Economics and Political
Science, as well as an Advanced Accounting
Certificate from Bellarmine University.
In 2005, he passed all parts of the CPA
exam.
Mr. Brown has written many
books, including:
Financing Start-Ups
Equity Finance: Venture Capital, Buyouts,
Restructurings and Reorganizations
Emerging Businesses
Advising New Businesses
International Business Plans
Limited Liability Companies Guide
Doing Business on the Internet
Managing Your e-Business/Hong Kong
Asian Economic and Legal Development
Commercial Laws of East Asia
Intellectual Property Laws of East Asia
He is admitted as an attorney in New York, Washington
DC, California and Kentucky, and is qualified
as a solicitor in England and Wales, and in Hong
Kong. From 1991-3, Mr. Brown was admitted as
a foreign lawyer in Japan. He is presently co-chair
of the American Bar Association Asia/Pacific
Committee.
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