Gene K. Landy is a shareholder of the firm and Chair of the firm's Technology Business Group.  His practice is concentrated on technology and digital media companies and digital technology and media transactions.  Gene is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Law School (cum laude).

Gene handles domestic and international transactions for high technology businesses, from start-ups to publicly traded companies. He represents companies in software, integrated circuits, telecommunications technology, IT hardware, Internet and web applications, e-commerce, digital media, computer games, and other technology fields.

His work includes counseling, licensing, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, intellectual property, technology transfer, business sales and acquisitions, and investments. He has worked for non-US technology firms that operate in the United States, including companies from India, Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, England, and Scotland. Gene also works with investors in technology opportunities.

Gene is the author, together with RIW attorney Amy Mastrobattista, of a comprehensive plain English entrepreneur's guide to digital technology and media law, published by Elsevier in June 2008. The book, called The IT/Digital Legal Companion, is available on amazon.com and other online book selling sites. Gene Landy is also the author of an earlier guide to software law entitled The Software Developer's and Marketer's Legal Companion, published by Addison-Wesley in the fall of 1993, as well as a number of articles in the field of information technology law published in law journals and other publications.

Gene frequently lectures on legal topics and has spoken at Softletter's SaaS University, e-Commerce Expo, Lotusphere, the Computer Games Developer Conference, and other industry trade shows, as well as the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, and the International Federation of Computer Law Associations. He has given presentations on IT, software, telecommunications, and Internet law in the United States, England, Ireland and India.

Associations and Organizations
American Bar Association, Intellectual Property and Science and Technology Sections
American Intellectual Property Law Association
International Technology Law Association
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge
Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council
Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX)
TiE-Boston

Publications

New Massachusetts Rules Require Information Security Plans and Procedures - RIW Client Alert

Trolling for Treasure

The IT/Digital Legal Companion

Profit from the dynamic of licensing data

Protecting Offshore-Outsourced Development Requires Close Scrutiny

Bar and Court Admissions
All Massachusetts Courts

Education
J.D. Harvard Law School, 1975 (cum laude)
S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969

Honors/Awards
2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Massachusetts Super Lawyer

Conferences and Seminars:

January 6, 2009
COMSNETS 2009 Business Track, Bangalore, India, Co-Chair and Session Moderator. For more information, click here.

November 6, 2008
General Counsel Group Luncheon, Waltham, MA, Presentation on Legal Issues in Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing.

October 28, 2008, 12 noon Eastern, 9 am Pacific.
Microsoft Webinar on "Your Startup and the Law," part of the Microsoft ISV Innovation "Startup 101" Webcast Series. 

October 15, 2008
SaaS University, San Francisco, CA, presentation on "Developing SaaS Terms of Service Agreements."  For more information, see softletter.com.

September 26, 2008
MCLE Distributing, Licensing and Pricing Software and Other High Technologies

June 21, 2008
Gene Landy & Amy Mastrobattista present at the TiE SRA Leadership Workshop

June 18, 2008
Gene Landy speaks at Softletter's SaaS University Seminar

June 10, 2008
Gene Landy moderates Mass Technology Leadership Council Panel on SaaS Partnering and Platforms

January 8, 2008
Gene Landy Co-Chairs COMSWARE Business 2008 (Comsbiz), Bangalore, India and moderates Mobile VAS for India and the World

January 9 and 10, 2007
Gene Landy Co-Chairs COMSWARE Business 2007 (Comsbiz), Bangalore, India & moderates Venture Capital panel

July 24 - 26, 2006
Gene Landy speaks at IQPC's Software Asset Managment Conference in Chicago

January 9 and 10, 2006
COMSWARE Business 2006 (Comsbiz), New Delhi, India & IPR Panel - Co-Chair, Moderator, Presenter

November 15, 2005
Gene Landy Presents at Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) on Buyer's View of IP in the M&A Deal

September 20 and 21, 2005
MCLE Basics Plus: Intellectual Property

March 23, 2005
North Shore High Technology Council (NSTC) IP Presenter regarding Security and IT: Phishers, Spammers and Spies, OH MY!

February 16, 2005
North Shore High Technology Council (NSTC) IP Program

September 24, 2004
Gene Landy Speaks at MA Software and Internet Council (now part of Masschusetts Technology Leadership Council) regarding IP/IT Licences in Financings and M&As

July 8 and 9, 2004
Gene Landy Speaks at IFCLA Conference on issues in Global IT Law in Oxford, England (presentation on open source software with Dinant T. L. Oosterbaan)

April 16 - 18, 2004
Gene Landy Presents on Open Source at MSI Technology, Innovation and IP Forum in Toronto, Canada

September 26 and 27, 2003
MCLE Basics Plus: Intellectual Property

September 30 and October 1, 2002
RIW Attorneys Speak on Intellectual Property Basics at MCLE

September 9, 2002
Gene Landy Speaks on software issues for Irish Software Association in Dublin, Ireland

March 21, 2002
Gene Landy speaks at MA Software and Internet Council (now part of Massachusetss Technology Leadership Council) regarding Legal Issues of Data Security

January 16, 2000
Gene Landy presents on Application Service Provider legal Issues at Lotusphere 2000