Gene K. Landy is a shareholder of the firm and Chair of the firm's Technology Group.  His practice is concentrated on technology companies and information technology 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 applications, e-commerce, computer games, and other technology fields.

His work includes licensing, intellectual property, technology transfer, business sales and acquisitions, and investments. He has worked with non-US technology firms that operate in the United States, including companies from India, Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, India, 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 layperson's guide to digital technology and media law, to be 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 a layperson's 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 e-Commerce Expo, Lotusphere, the Computer Games Developer Conference, and other industry trade shows, as well as the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Counsel, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, and the International Federation of Computer Law Associations. He has given presentations on IT, software, telecommunications, and Internet law in England, Ireland and India.

Associations and Organizations
American Bar Association, Intellectual Property and Science and Technology Sections
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Computer Law Association
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge

Publications

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 Massachusetts Super Lawyer

Conferences and Seminars:
July 24, 2006 - July 26, 2006
Gene Landy and Barry Dicker Speak at IQPC's Software Asset Management Conference in Chicago

March 14, 2006
Gene Landy Leads Technology Conference In India

October 22, 2004
Gene Landy Speaks at MCLE

July 8, 2004 - July 9, 2004
Gene Landy Speaks at IFCLA Conference

April 16, 2004
Gene Landy Presents at MSI Technology, Innovation and IP Forum

September 30, 2002
RIW Attorneys Speak on Intellectual Property Basics

September 9, 2002
Gene Landy Speaks for Irish Software Association

June 13, 2001
IT Licensing Boot Camp -- June 13, 2001

May 10, 2001
Gene Landy Speaks for Boston Bar Association