Ian C. Ballon practices in the following areas of law: Intellectual Property & Technology; Internet and Computer Software Admitted: 1986, Maryland (inactive); 1988, District of Columbia (inactive); 1989, California Law School: The George Washington University National Law Center, J.D., with honors, 1986; Georgetown University, LL.M., International/Comparative Law, 1988 College: Tufts University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1983 Member: State Bar of California; American Law Institute; American Bar Association (Past Chair, Computer Law Division and Council Member, Section of Science and Technology; Programs Chair, 1995-2002 and Member, Computer and Internet Litigation Committee, Litigation Section; Member, Cyberspace Law Committee, Business Law Section; Past Chair, Intellectual Property Subcommittee). Biography: Author: Legal Treatise, "E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms," West/Legal Works, 2001 and Annual Supplement, www.ballononecommerce.com. Executive Director, Stanford Law School's Center for E-Commerce, 2003—. Named: Top 50 IP Litigators in California by the Daily Journal, 2008; Top 25 copyright, trademark and patent lawyers in California by The Daily Journal in 2003; Top 16 new-media lawyers in the United States, Daily Journal's Cyber Esq. magazine, 2001; Top 100 most influential lawyers in California, California Law Business, 2001; Top 20 California lawyers under age 40 by California Law Business, Spring 1999. Member, Board of Advisors, Program in Law Science and Technology, Stanford University Law School, 2007. Advisor: Grammy Foundation's Entertainment Law Initiative, 2006 —; American Law Institute's International Intellectual Property Jurisdiction Project, 2002-2007. Council Member, Science and Technology Section, American Bas Association, 2000-2006. Present or Former Member, Editorial Boards of: The Cyberspace Lawyer; The Journal of Internet Law; Privacy and Information Law Report; E-Commerce Law Report; Intellectual Property Lawcast. Author: "Why Internet Business Disputes Lead to Intellectual Property Litigation," Daily Journal, 2006; "Assessing and Limiting E-Commerce Liability Through Website Audits," California Business Law Practitioner, Fall 2001; "Bots, Screen Scraping, Content Aggregation and the Evolving Doctrine of Database Trespass," The Cyberspace Lawyer, May 2001; "Napster Ruling Clarifies and Expands the Law Governing Third Party Copyright Liability in Cyberspace," The E-Commerce Law Report, May 2001; "Spoliation of E-Mail Evidence," Committee on Pretrial Practice & Discovery, American Bar Association, Vol. LX, No.1, Winter 2001; "Rethinking Cyberspace Jurisdiction in Intellectual Property Disputes," University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, Fall 2000. Reported Cases: MySpace, Inc. v. Wallace, 498 F. Supp. 2d 1293 (C.D. Cal. 2007) (enjoining a defendant under the CAN-SPAM Act); MySpace, Inc. v. TheGlobe.com, Inc., 2007 WL 1686966 (C.D. Cal. 2007) (granting summary judgment under the CAN-SPAM Act, California's anti-spamming statute and for breach of MySpace's Terms of Use, including its $50 per email liquidated damages clause); MCSi, Inc. v. Woods, 290 F. Supp. 2d 1030 (N.D. Cal. 2003) (denying an anti-SLAPP motion in a case involving pseudonymous Internet misconduct); Garden of Life, Inc. v. Letzer, 318 F. Supp. 2d 946 (C.D. Cal. 2004) (transferring domain names pursuant to a preliminary injunction granted under the Lanham Act and California state law); MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 380 F.3d 1154 (9th Cir. 2004) (wrote amicus brief on behalf of copyright owners' rights organizations). Born: Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
