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ANDREW UPDEGROVE


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Like his partners and associates, Andy helps CEOs, management teams and their
investors build successful organizations. Regionally, he’s been a pioneer in
providing business-minded legal counsel and strategic advice to high-tech
companies since 1979. On the global stage, he’s represented, and usually helped
launch, more than 200 worldwide standard setting, open source, promotional and
advocacy consortia, including some of the largest and most influential standard
setting and open source software organizations in the world.  His clients of
both types rely on his experience and vision in making their own business and
strategic decisions.

 

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Like his partners and associates, Andy helps CEOs, management teams and their
investors build successful organizations. Regionally, he’s been a pioneer in
providing business-minded legal counsel and strategic advice to high-tech
companies since 1979. On the global stage, he’s represented, and usually helped
launch, more than 200 worldwide standard setting, open source, promotional and
advocacy consortia, including some of the largest and most influential standard
setting and open source software organizations in the world.  His clients of
both types rely on his experience and vision in making their own business and
strategic decisions.

 

Background & Experience


EXPERIENCE

Trusted counsel to entrepreneurs, from concept to commerce
In the course of over 40 years in practice, Andy has counseled many hundreds of
startup and emerging high-technology and other fast growth clients of all types
– always with the goal of helping them realize the promise and economic value of
their ideas. In the course of guiding them, he:

 * critiques business plans
 * advises on structuring their businesses
 * introduces them to financing sources
 * represents them in angel, venture capital and bank financings
 * counsels them on intellectual property programs
 * advises them on their growth and sale strategies
 * negotiates and closes mergers and acquisitions on their behalf
 * guides them in all other aspects of their legal and business affairs — from
   inception through liquidity

Andy also has wide experience in representing mature high-technology companies
in a broad range of matters, including financings, mergers and acquisitions, and
complex intellectual property matters.

Consortia’s go-to lawyer and information source
Andy is recognized internationally as a leading expert on the topics of standard
setting, intellectual property policies, consortia governance and open source
development.  Since 1988, he has helped launch and represented many of the most
important standards consortia, and more recently, open source foundations, in
the world – over 155 in all. He has also served as a Director on the boards of
some of the most influential organizations of this type, including the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI), Free Standards Group (FSG), and the Linux
Foundation; as a member of a National Academies of Science committee
commissioned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; as a Board of Advisors
member of HL7, an accredited EHR standards developer, and of Open Software for
America, an advocacy group promoting the use of free and open source software by
the U.S. Federal Government; and as a Fellow of the OpenForum Academy, a
European think tank advocating openness in government processes and data. He
also advises Fortune 500 companies in developing their internal standards
setting policies and goals; government regulatory agencies in connection with
standards-related enforcement matters; and serves as an expert witness in
standards-related litigation.

Andy has worked to promote best practices in governance and intellectual
property matters relating to standards and open source development for many
years.  He is a highly sought-after speaker on these topics around the world,
and has provided testimony to the Department of Justice, Federal Trade
Commission, Congressional committees, and state legislatures on these topics as
well.  His writing in this area includes:

 * www.consortiuminfo.org (conceived and launched by Andy and Gesmer Updegrove
   in May 2002) provides the most comprehensive and detailed source of news and
   information on these standards topics on the Internet. The site serves up to
   a million page views a month to a global audience.
 * Its companion, Standards Today, is an eJournal of news, ideas and analysis on
   the topics of consortia and standard setting.  Standards Today is delivered
   on-line to over 7,000 subscribers at major corporations, government agencies
   and universities throughout the world.
 * Filing multiple pro bono “friend of the court” briefs in important standard
   litigation in the federal District, Circuit and Supreme Courts of the United
   States on behalf of dozens of standards organizations.
 * Outside the office, he’s taken to writing fiction, including five satirical
   cybersecurity thrillers chronicling fictional events that have had a
   disturbing habit of later actually happening. His latest, titled The
   Blockchain Revolution, was released in February of 2019.

A graduate of Yale University and Cornell University Law School, Andy is active
in the community as well. He has been a director of the Gloucester Stage
Company, the Treasurer and a Director of the Vinalhaven [Maine] Land Trust, a
director of LifeBridge, an organization dedicated to ending homelessness on the
North Shore of Massachusetts, and the Clerk and Moderator of the Old North
Church in Marblehead.  In a prior life, Andy was the founder and owner of a
successful architectural stained glass studio. He continues to be the adoring
father of a 30 year-old daughter and the loving husband of a wife whose age is
better left unstated.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

 * Cornell University Law School, J.D., 1979
 * Yale University, B.A., 1975

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2018 New England Super Lawyers
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Firms of the Future

The Technology Law Bulletin: "U.S. Government Initiative Boosts Standards"

Andrew Updegrove explains the blockchain and cyber securities in an interview by
Mackrell International

The Lafayette Campaign

Selling a Software Company (Part I)

Firms of the Future

The Technology Law Bulletin: "U.S. Government Initiative Boosts Standards"

Andrew Updegrove explains the blockchain and cyber securities in an interview by
Mackrell International

The Lafayette Campaign

Selling a Software Company (Part I)

Firms of the Future

The Technology Law Bulletin: "U.S. Government Initiative Boosts Standards"

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